Top 350+ Solved Modern Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who, among the following western philosophers attempted to refute ‘Matter’?
a. Kant
b. Berkeley
c. Locke
d. Hume
Q. Berkeley believes that sensible things cannot exist except in …….
a. A mind
b. absolute existence
c. material substance
d. material universe
Q. Which among the following is correct
a. According to Locke God, Mind and Matter are three kinds of substance
b. According to Descartes, Mind and Matter are three kinds of substance
c. According to Berkeley only Mind and their ideas exist
d. All the above
Q. Which among the following is NOT correct statement
a. According to Spinoza there is only one substance, i.e., God
b. According to Berkeley only Mind and their ideas exist
c. According to Descartes there is only one substance, i.e, God
d. According to the Absolute Idealism of Hegel there is only one reality
Q. Who claimed that an abstract idea does not exist.
a. David Hume
b. George Berkeley
c. John Locke
d. Plato
Q. Which of the following books is NOT written by David Hume?
a. A Treatise of Human Nature
b. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
c. The Phenomenology of Spirit
d. An Enquiry concerning the Human Understanding
Q. According to Hume there are two kinds of contents of the mind, namely …..
a. Sensations and impressions
b. knowledge and ignorance
c. subjective and objective ideas
d. Impressions and their ideas
Q. According to Hume, ……… is secondary and ….. is primary.
a. Reflection, sensation
b. Complex, simple idea
c. Sensation, reflection
d. simple, complex idea
Q. Hume’s theory, that all impressions as such are distinct and separate with no logical connectionbetween them, is known as ……
a. Humean atomism
b. Humean skepticism
c. Humean agnosticism
d. Humean idealism
Q. Hume does not believe in ……
a. Causal relation exists
b. External world is unreal
c. Certainty of Knowledge
d. Moral principles and God are man-made entities.
Q. ‘Substance is a product of human imagination’ is said by …..
a. Descartes
b. Spinoza
c. Locke
d. Hume
Q. What is the self, according to Hume?
a. A sequence of perceptions
b. An immaterial, unchanging substance
c. A physical body
d. A social entity