Western Philosophy MCQs : This section focuses on the "Western Philosophy". These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) should be practiced to improve the Western Philosophy skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placement, entrance exam and other competitive examinations.
Question 1
Whose doctrine is ?Know Thyself??
A. plato
B. thales
C. protagoras
D. socrates
Question 2
?There is no form without matter and no matter without form.?
A. leucippus
B. plato
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Question 3
The major source of Thales?s philosophy is by
A. plato
B. pythagoras
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Question 4
___ ?says that knowledge is an adjustment between the knower and theobject known
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. protagoras
D. st.anselm
Question 5
Which thinker who went to Athens and joined Plato?s Academy.
A. anaxagoras
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Question 6
Who defined substance is something that we can point out as ?this?
A. st. augustine
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. pythagoras
Question 7
??????is considered as the founder of the atomistic school.
A. thales
B. anaxiander
C. leucippus
D. aristotle
Question 8
Crito is a work of???????.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. protagoras
Question 9
Aristotle gives ???..supreme categories of thought.
A. eight
B. ten
C. nine
D. seven
Question 10
According to??????. faith and reason are neither mutuallyexclusive nor contradictory but are mutually complementary
A. socrates
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. st.augustine,
Question 11
St. Anselm?s ontological argument proceeds from the idea of God to Godas????? as existent.
A. an idea
B. the cause
C. a reality
D. a number
Question 12
In his famous ?Allegory of the Cave,? _____ relates a story illustrating thejourney of the soul from ignorance to knowledge.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. protagoras
Question 13
The Greek word for ?forms? in Plato is _________
A. hyle
B. logos
C. eidos
D. philos
Question 14
Plato divided human soul into _______parts
A. three
B. two
C. four
D. all are false
Question 15
Plato?s Theory of Ideas was severely criticized by _______
A. protogoras
B. socrates
C. aristotle
D. all is true
Question 16
The original principle of this universe is______ according to Thales
A. water
B. fire
C. air
D. ether
Question 17
Thales is a_____ philosopher
A. milesian
B. hebrew
C. arab
D. german
Question 18
______ was counted among the Seven Wise Men
A. plato
B. socrates
C. thales
D. aristotle
Question 19
The arche of things is apeiron, according to _____
A. plato
B. socrates
C. tales
D. anaximander
Question 20
Protagoras is a _____Philosopher
A. sophist
B. spiritualist
C. religious
D. idealist
Question 21
Man is the measure of all things, according to _____
A. thales
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. protagoras
Question 22
Democritus and Leucippus are belonging to_____ school
A. ionian
B. atomist
C. idealist
D. eleatic
Question 23
___ was the first Athenian born Philosopher
A. thales
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Question 24
Maieutic method is by _____Philosopher
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. democritus
Question 25
Socrates is a prominent _____ philosopher
A. greek
B. pragmatist
C. german
D. french
Question 26
Socrates is a mentor of ______
A. democritus
B. sophists
C. plato
D. pythagoras
Question 27
___ invented the dialectic method of finding truth through conversation
A. socrates
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. all are true
Question 28
Athens where Plato established _____, the first university in the Westernworld
A. lyceum
B. dialectics
C. academy
D. all are true
Question 29
In his famous ?Allegory of the Cave,? ___ relates a story illustrating thejourney of the soul from ignorance to knowledge.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. protagoras
Question 30
The Republic is the famous work of ______
A. socrates
B. thales
C. plato
D. sartre
Question 31
Aristotle mentioned theory of truth in his work_____
A. analytic
B. ethics
C. epistemology
D. metaphysics
Question 32
For Plato, ___ are eternal ideas beyond the physical world.
A. forms
B. dialectics
C. phenomenon
D. episteme
Question 33
Matter is the substance out of which everything in the world is made isthe statement of ___
A. anaxagoras
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Question 34
The City of God is the work of ___
A. st. augustine
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. pythagoras
Question 35
______ predicted an eclipse of the sun
A. thales
B. pythagoras
C. socrates
D. plato
Question 36
Anaximander belongs to ______
A. stagira
B. miletus
C. samos
D. all are false
Question 37
Anaximander, a philosopher came after _____
A. anaximenes
B. plato
C. socrates
D. thales
Question 38
apeiron in Anaximander means ___
A. formal logic
B. infinite
C. eidos
D. hyle
Question 39
The thinkers of Milesian school were the thinkers of _____
A. metaphysics
B. nature
C. religion
D. idealism
Question 40
Pythagoras was born on______
A. samos
B. iona
C. athens
D. all are false
Question 41
Central to Pythagoreanism is the idea that ______ accounts takeprecedence over material things.
A. numbers
B. zeros
C. music
D. god
Question 42
_____is a Philosopher who made a distinction between mind and matter
A. anaxagoras
B. thales
C. socrates
D. democritus
Question 43
______ philosopher is the main source of Anaxagoras
A. socrates
B. pythagoras
C. plato
D. herodotus
Question 44
___gave a power and grandeur to Athenian Democracy
A. pericles
B. thales
C. protagoras
D. anaximander
Question 45
The atomists are the last pre-Socratics and they follow_____
A. physis
B. religion
C. theism
D. idealism
Question 46
The word atom means ___
A. cuttable
B. thesis
C. antithesis
D. uncuttable
Question 47
_____is believed to be a disciple of Leucippus
A. protagoras
B. democritus
C. anaximander
D. plato
Question 48
_____ say that all things consist of a single kind of matter broken intotiny particles.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. atomists
D. protagoras
Question 49
Sophia which means ___
A. wisdom
B. speech
C. action
D. concept
Question 50
Protagoras a native of ______in northeast Greece
A. clazomen
B. samos
C. stagira
D. abdera
Question 51
Truth and On the Gods are the woks of ______
A. plato
B. socrates
C. protagoras
D. anaximander
Question 52
_____ were more concerned with public speaking, rather than thinkingwell.
A. materialists
B. rationalists
C. idealists
D. sophists
Question 53
Man is the measure of all things, says ___
A. leucippus
B. protagoras
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Question 54
Maieutic means ___
A. midwifery
B. dialectical
C. perceptual
D. universal
Question 55
___was known as a self- taught philosopher
A. anaximander
B. plato
C. socrates
D. st. augustine
Question 56
According to _____, knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice
A. thales
B. plato
C. pythagoras
D. socrates
Question 57
The highest ideal according to Socrates is ___
A. matter
B. dialectical
C. statement
D. virtue
Question 58
Concept means _____
A. judgment
B. idea
C. virtue
D. particular
Question 59
Apology is the famous work of ______
A. socrates
B. thales
C. plato
D. sartre
Question 60
The concepts lies in the transcendental world is the philosophy of ______
A. socrates
B. pythagoras
C. aristotle
D. plato
Question 61
The theory of forms/ideas/concepts/essences is the Philosophy of ______
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. thales
D. pythagoras
Question 62
Plato wrote _____ dialogues
A. 37
B. 24
C. 34
D. 35
Question 63
_____stated that the best possible political system (state) will be ruled byphilosophers.
A. aristotle
B. sophists
C. socrates
D. plato
Question 64
The perceptible world (i.e., the world we perceive through our senses) isa reflection or copy of that higher intelligible world is the philosophy of _____
A. plato
B. anaxagoras
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Question 65
The Greek word for ?forms? in Plato is ______
A. hyle
B. logos
C. eidos
D. philos
Question 66
Plato divided human soul into ______parts
A. three
B. two
C. four
D. all are false
Question 67
Plato?s Theory of Ideas was severely criticized by ______
A. protogoras
B. socrates
C. aristotle
D. all is true
Question 68
Plato admit the immortality of soul in his ___ dialogue
A. apology
B. republic
C. theaetetus
D. phaedo
Question 69
________is a philosopher who was born at Stagira
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. thles
Question 70
The works of_____ are divided into two types-exoteric and esoteric.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. st.augustine
D. st.anselm
Question 71
According to Aristotle, there are nine Categories and one___
A. universal
B. logic
C. substance
D. god
Question 72
St. Thomas Aquinas was very much influenced the philosophy of ______
A. plato
B. st. anselm
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Question 73
St. Augustin based his philosophy and theology on the teachings of _____
A. thales
B. pythagoras
C. socrates
D. plato
Question 74
According to Augustine the lowest level of knowledge is called _____
A. sensation
B. reason
C. god
D. noumena
Question 75
According to_____,we have two sources of knowledge: faith and reason.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. st.anselm
D. socrates