Top 350+ Solved Modern Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. According to Kant we know ourselves
a. Only by the phenomenal self we experience in this world
b. Through the innate obviousness of our own experience
c. As both phenomenal and noumenalbeings
d. Not at all, since all our selves are made up of false and illusory judgements
Q. According to Kant the ideas of reason are not …. But ….. principles of knowledge
a. Regulative, constitutive
b. Affirmative, negative
c. Negative, affirmative
d. Constitutive, regulative
Q. Why doesn't Kant think that we can have knowledge of the things-in-themselves (das ding- an-sich)?
a. Because they have not yet been experienced.
b. Because they are not physical in nature.
c. Because they are not mental in nature.
d. Because the organizing principles of the mind do not apply to them.
Q. Who authored the book Critique of Pure Reason
a. Immanuel Kant
b. Hegel
c. Rene Descartes
d. Russell
Q. The concepts come to be applied to the sensible through the ………-schema.
a. Time
b. Space
c. both time and space
d. Neither time nor space
Q. -------------- 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.
a. Transcendental Analytic
b. Transcendental Aesthetic
c. Schema
d. Transcendental Deduction
Q. The knowledge which is constructed by the understanding, by means of its categories, is theknowledge of ……………
a. Phenomenon
b. Noumenon
c. things-in- themselves
d. Phenomenon and Noumenon
Q. Which of the following is true for Kant
a. Knowledge of the phenomena alone is possible
b. Noumena remain unknown and unknowable.
c. Noumena means a thing so far as it is not an object of our sensible intuition
d. All of the above
Q. According to Kant, moral duty is
a. The commandment of God
b. Given by one’s intuition
c. The imperative of pure reason
d. Determined by majority
Q. According to Kant, we ought to treat humanity
a. always only as an end
b. sometimes as an end
c. never simply as a means
d. always as a means
Q. According to Kant, moral law is
a. a priori, and based on reason
b. a priori, and not based on reason
c. a posteriori, and not based on reason
d. a posteriori, and based on reason
Q. A furtherprocess of synthesis is effected a priori by the three ideas of reason, namely,
a. Sense, object, knowledge
b. Intellect, intuition, cognition
c. World, soul, God
d. Mind, body, absolute
Q. The philosopher who put forward the dialectical method is:
a. Descartes
b. Kant
c. Hegel
d. Spinoza
Q. According to Hegel, there are three stages in the logical development of spirit: subjective mind,objective mind and …..
a. Absolute God
b. Absolute mind
c. Absolute Spirit
d. Absolute idea