Philosophical Methods Set 4
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This set of Philosophical Methods Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Philosophical Methods Set 4
Q1 | The work ‘Theatetus’ is attributed to:
- protagoras
- plato
- descartes
- socrates
Q2 | The problem of universals was first introduced into philosophy by
- aquinas
- aristotle
- plato
- berkeley
Q3 | In the ........ Plato seeks the definition of Courage
- theaetetus
- charmides
- meno
- laches
Q4 | Who takes dialectics as an argumentative process?
- socrates
- plato
- aristotle
- zeno
Q5 | For -------everything was continually changing into its opposite.
- zeno
- heraclitus
- parmenides
- thales
Q6 | Which among the following is the feature of dialectics?
- consensus and contradiction
- conversation or question and answer form
- dynamicity or movement
- all of the above
Q7 | A method for understanding reality by the triadic movement from thesis to antithesis to synthesis
- analytical
- mathematical
- dialectical
- phenomenological
Q8 | Whose method is known as art of intellectual midwifery?
- socrates
- plato
- aristotle
- kant
Q9 | To bring to light on knowledge which the mind already possesses is known as:
- intellectual midwifery
- socratic irony
- material dialectics
- absolute idealism
Q10 | Which are the characteristics of Socratic dialectic?
- conversational, conceptual
- contradiction, methodological doubt
- critical, inductive and deductive
- all of the above
Q11 | Whose method is the synthesis of opposites?
- kant
- hegel
- both kant and hegel
- neither kant nor hegel
Q12 | Who is the author of the book Critique of Pure Reason?
- descartes
- hume
- berkeley
- immanuel kant
Q13 | Who draws limits to the extent of knowledge?
- kant
- hegel
- descartes
- marx
Q14 | For-----, dialectic is the process of the logical development of thought and reality through thesis and antithesis into a synthesis.
- kant
- hegel
- plato
- zeno
Q15 | There is the final movement in which the spirit reduces Nature to the inwardness, which the spirit itself is. Only at this stage the spirit rises to self consciousness in man. According to Hegel spirit rises to self consciousness in man. According to Hegel this stage is -----
- thesis
- antithesis
- synthesis
- none
Q16 | The key motion of Hegel is ------
- the world
- idea
- geist
- none of these.
Q17 | For Hegel, Idea means
- concrete particular
- concrete universal
- abstract particular
- abstract universal
Q18 | According to the Absolute Idealism of Hegel.
- there is only one reality
- reality is relative
- there are many realities
- none of the above
Q19 | ------, in Hegel’s dialectic, means to resolve into a higher unity or to bring into the wholeness that which is fragmentary.
- sublation
- geist
- thesis
- anti-thesis
Q20 | ..... is the author of an all-embracing system of dialectical idealism
- hegel
- kant
- hume
- none of these
Q21 | According to Hegel, there are three stages in the logical development of spirit: subjective mind, objective mind and ......
- absolute god
- absolute mind
- absolute spirit
- absolute idea
Q22 | ---- method, which is the proper method of philosophy, according to Hegel, is determined by the subject matter of philosophy itself.
- the synthetically
- the analytical
- the dialectical
- the geometrical
Q23 | According to ......., real is rational and rational is real
- russell
- wittgenstein
- husserl
- hegel
Q24 | Who introduced triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis into German philosophy for the first time?
- hegel
- kant
- pierce
- fichte
Q25 | Who criticizes the Hegelian concept of dialectical triad and says that dialectic does not necessarily involve the identity of opposites?
- bradley
- carnap
- descartes
- kant