Modern Western Philosophy Set 19 MCQs

Q1 | According to Kant, we ought to treat humanity

always only as an end

sometimes as an end

never simply as a means

always as a means

Q2 | According to Kant, moral law is

a priori, and based on reason

a priori, and not based on reason

a posteriori, and not based on reason

a posteriori, and based on reason

Q3 | A furtherprocess of synthesis is effected a priori by the three ideas of reason, namely,

Sense, object, knowledge

Intellect, intuition, cognition

World, soul, God

Mind, body, absolute

Q4 | The philosopher who put forward the dialectical method is:

Descartes

Kant

Hegel

Spinoza

Q5 | 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

Q6 | Which method is the proper method of philosophy, according to Hegel, is determined by thesubject matter of philosophy itself

The synthetical

the analytical

the dialectical

the geometrical

Q7 | The Absolute for Hegel is

Substance

Soul

God

Idea

Q8 | The real is the rational, and the rational is the real’ is the doctrine of

Fichte

Schelling

Kant

Hegel

Q9 | Having shown that metaphysics is unproved and speculative at best, Kant goes on to arguethat

Rather than studying speculative metaphysics to learn about sense perceptions, we ought to study sense perceptions in order to learn about metaphysics.

We ought to study metaphysics as a science because it asks good questions.

We ought to waste time with that of which we know nothing

Metaphysics can only be known innately

Q10 | What do we directly observe, according to David Hume?

Physical objects

Sense impressions

Ourselves

Our brains

Q11 | Absolute Idealism is advocated by

John Locke

George Berkley

Immanuel Kant

Hegel

Q12 | According to Absolute Idealism, what is the relationship between being real and beingknowable?

No reality is knowable

All reality is knowable

Some reality is knowable and some isn’t

Only God is ultimately unknowable.

Q13 | There is the final movement in which the spirit reduces Nature to the inwardness, which thespirit itself is. Only at this stage the spirit rises to self-consciousness in man. According to Hegel this stage is ………

Thesis

anti-thesis

Synthesis

Contradiction

Q14 | For Hegel, Idea means

Concrete particular

Concrete universal

Abstract particular

Abstract universal

Q15 | According to the Absolute Idealism of Hegel

There is only one reality

Reality is relative

There are many realities

All of these

Q16 | What is the highest reality (the Absolute), for Hegel?

The entire material world

A God who exists beyond the world

Infinite thought thinking itself

A vast group of independent particulars