Modern Western Philosophy Set 18 MCQs

Q1 | Why can’t we have cause and effect knowledge, according to Hume?

We can never observe a constant conjunction between events.

We can never observe the cause and the effect at the same time.

We can never observe a necessary connection between events.

We can never observe the atoms that make up the cause and the effect.

Q2 | Which among the following is NOT correct statement

If we believe in the causal principle, he says, it is only through habit or custom that we do so, there is no rational basis for it.

The mind is a kind of theatre, where perceptions successively make their appearance, pass and re-pass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

Hume’s point is that the idea of necessary connection between cause and effect is something that experience can give us.

We have no knowledge that an external world exists, that physical substances exist, that a God exists.

Q3 | Synthetic unity of apperception is advocated by:

Hegel

Kant

Leibniz

Spinoza

Q4 | The expression ‘Copernican revolution in thought’ is attributed to:

Kant

Hegel

Berkeley

Spinoza

Q5 | Kant’s Copernican revolution in philosophy is …..

The mind must approach the objects to be known at all

The objects must approach the mind to be known at all

Mind obtained reason because of sun

None of the above

Q6 | Which one of the following concepts is associated with Immanuel Kant?

Occasionalism

tabula rasa

esseestpercipii

synthetic apriori

Q7 | In Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant discusses the theory of ….

Knowledge

Space and time

Existence of God

Morality

Q8 | According to Kant, knowledge begins with sense proceeds thence to …….. and ends in …..

Understanding, reason

Reason, Understanding

Noumena, phenomena

none of the above

Q9 | Kant has called his epistemological enquiry …….

Critical

Agnostic

Transcendental

Rational

Q10 | Kant’s philosophy is known as

Criticism

Rationalism

Idealism

Realism

Q11 | A proposition, in which the predicate does not belong to the subject, is known as …..

Synthetic

Analytic

Simple

Complex

Q12 | The critique of Pure Reason is really a treatise on …. With special reference to science

Metaphysics

Epistemology

Axiology

Aesthetics

Q13 | According to Kant, the laws of nature

Do not exist

Exist in our minds, and we apply them to construct nature as we experience it.

Are intuited by the mind just like the rest of nature.

Are abstracted from the judgments we make about nature

Q14 | Metaphysics is only possible if we can gain knowledge from statement which are

Synthetic a posteriori

synthetic a priori

analytical a priori

None of the above: metaphysics is never possible

Q15 | How does Kant say that our mind experiences intuitions?

Intuitions are sudden flashes of insight about the world

Intuitions are formed in the mind from concepts of understanding

Intuitions are experienced in space and time

Intuitions give us the framework which lets us interpret sense data

Q16 | According to Kant we know ourselves

Only by the phenomenal self we experience in this world

Through the innate obviousness of our own experience

As both phenomenal and noumenalbeings

Not at all, since all our selves are made up of false and illusory judgements

Q17 | According to Kant the ideas of reason are not …. But ….. principles of knowledge

Regulative, constitutive

Affirmative, negative

Negative, affirmative

Constitutive, regulative

Q18 | Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das ding- an-sich)?

Because they have not yet been experienced.

Because they are not physical in nature.

Because they are not mental in nature.

Because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them.

Q19 | The a priori conditions of all knowledge is advocated by:

Kant

Hume

Locke

Berkeley

Q20 | Who authored the book Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant

Hegel

Rene Descartes

Russell

Q21 | The concepts come to be applied to the sensible through the ………-schema.

Time

Space

both time and space

Neither time nor space

Q22 | -------------- means that there are a priori categories of the understanding which determine the objectivity of empirical statements and that by their means alone such statements can ever beobtained.

Transcendental Analytic

Transcendental Aesthetic

Schema

Transcendental Deduction

Q23 | The knowledge which is constructed by the understanding, by means of its categories, is theknowledge of ……………

Phenomenon

Noumenon

things-in- themselves

Phenomenon and Noumenon

Q24 | Which of the following is true for Kant

Knowledge of the phenomena alone is possible

Noumena remain unknown and unknowable.

Noumena means a thing so far as it is not an object of our sensible intuition

All of the above

Q25 | According to Kant, moral duty is

The commandment of God

Given by one’s intuition

The imperative of pure reason

Determined by majority