Top 350+ Solved Modern Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. For Descartes, cogito ergo sum is
a. A proof for the existence of God
b. An indubitable truth
c. An obvious falsehood
d. A way to make money
Q. Which claim did Descartes use to establish the certainty of his own existence?
a. To be is to be perceived
b. I think, therefore I am
c. Nothing exists except bodies in motion
d. Every created thing has both mental and physical properties.
Q. What was clarity and distinctness a mark of, for Rene Descartes?
a. God
b. Goodness
c. Truth
d. Rationality
Q. Which book authored Rene Descartes
a. Critique of Pure Reason
b. Ethics
c. Meditations on First Philosophy
d. The Principles of Human Knowledge
Q. Descartes uses the method of doubt to cast doubt on
a. The existence of the external world
b. The existence of God
c. The existence of dream
d. The existence of demons
Q. Spinoza equates substance with ------- and --------
a. Qualities, God
b. Nature, God
c. Nature, Soul
d. None of the above
Q. By admitting only God, Spinoza fails to explain plurality, diversity, motion and change of the …..
a. Individual souls
b. Objects of the world
c. Empirical world
d. None of the above
Q. Which one of the following statements is associated with Spinoza?
a. Mind and body are two independent entities in perfect harmony with each other.
b. Mind and body interact and there is a causal relation between the two.
c. Mind and body are not two independent substances but are two parallel manifestations of the same reality.
d. Mind is an epiphenomenon of the body
Q. Which one of the following statements is true, according to Spinoza?
a. Substance can exist outside of God
b. Substance and God are independent realities
c. There can be no substance outside of God
d. Substance and God are imaginary.
Q. By ‘mode’ Spinoza means that which
a. Is in itself and is conceived through itself
b. Exists in itself
c. Is a being that is absolutely infinite
d. Exists through something other than itself
Q. What is true of Spinoza’s parallelism?
a. It explains the mental by the physical
b. It explains the physical by the mental
c. It is double aspect theory accepting both the mental and physical realms as manifestations of the same substance.
d. It accepts the mental and the physical as two stages of evolution.
Q. Spinoza claims substance is …………. and ………………
a. Many, finite
b. One, infinite
c. Many, limited
d. One, limited
Q. By ………….. Spinoza understands that which is in itself and which is conceived by means of itself.
a. Matter
b. Body
c. Substance
d. Attribute
Q. ............ points out that if Descartes, definition of substance is to be strictly adhered to, there can be only one substance, i.e., God.
a. Spinoza
b. Hume
c. Locke
d. Berkeley