Top 350+ Solved Modern Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. -------suggests that the idea of substance is a complexidea
a. spinoza
b. berkeley
c. hume
d. locke
Q. According to ---------- , only mind and their ideas exist
a. hume
b. leibniz
c. spinoza
d. berkeley
Q. Berkeley rejects Locke’s distinction between primary and secondary qualities because:
a. all qualities are subjective
b. only secondary qualities are subjective
c. qualities are created by god
d. qualities in here in substance
Q. For Descartes, the idea of soul
a. is not related to reason
b. is identical with reason
c. contradicts reason
d. does not contradict reason
Q. According to Kant belief in God is:
a. accidental to ethics
b. totally irrelevant to ethics
c. contingent to ethics
d. a presupposition of ethics
Q. For Descartes the proposition ‘I think’ is self-verifying because
a. it is a necessary truth.
b. it is a logical truth.
c. doubting it confirms it.
d. thinking is my essence.
Q. The primary aim of Descartes is
a. to explain the relation between body and mind.
b. to prove the existence of god.
c. to refute the reality of the external world.
d. to reach clear and certain knowledge.
Q. Who said that ‘Reason must approach nature not as a pupil, but as a judge’?
a. kant
b. locke
c. hegel
d. spinoza
Q. According to Kant _________ the proper objects of faith
a. phenomena
b. noumena
c. both phenomena and noumena
d. neither
Q. Which one of the following is not the work of Immanuel Kant?
a. critique of pure reason
b. foundations of metaphysics of morals
c. critique of practical reason
d. the phenomenology of spirit
Q. Who highlighted the problem of personal identity first in modern western philosophy?
a. berkeley
b. locke
c. spinoza
d. descartes
Q. The concept of categories was advocated by :
a. kant
b. kant and aristotle
c. kant and locke
d. kant and berkeley