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BA Philosophy

(2011 Admission Onwards)

V Semester

Core Course

Classical Western Philosophy

QUESTION BANK
1 The original principle of this universe is------- according to Thales
(a) Water (b) fire (c) air (d) ether

2 Thales is a------ philosopher

(a)Milesian (b) Hebrew (c) Arab (d) German

3 -------- was counted among the Seven Wise Men

(a)Plato (b) Socrates (c) Thales (d) Aristotle

4 The arche of things is apeiron, according to ------

(a)Plato (b) Socrates (c) Tales (d) Anaximander

5 According to Anaximenes--- is the first principle

(a) Fire (b) water (c) infinite (d) air

6 Who said number is the essence and basis of all things?

(a) Descartes (b) Pythagoras (c) Anaxagoras (d) Kant

7 Who is known as the Father of Western Philosophy?

(a)Thales (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Aristotle

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8. Aristotle is credited with ---------

(a) Mathematical logic (b) Symbolic Logic
(c) Syllogistic arguments (d) None of the above

9. Who advocated theory of atoms?

(a) Plato (b) Democritus (c) Thales (d) Leibnitz

10. Who is the main atomist?

(a) Leibnitz (b) Leucippus (c) Pythagoras (d) Kepler

11. Protagoras is a ------Philosopher

(a) Sophist (b) spiritualist (c) Religious (d) idealist

12 Man is the measure of all things, according to ------

(a) Thales (b) Plato (c) Aristotle (d) Protagoras

13. Democritus and Leucippus are belonging to------ school

(a)Ionian (b) atomist (c) idealist (d) Eleatic

14. ----- was the first Athenian born Philosopher

(a) Thales (b) Plato (c) Aristotle (d) Socrates

15. Knowledge is relative associated with

(a)Protagoras (b) Pythagoras (c) Anaximander (d) Thales

16. Idealism is a systematic philosophy which teaches the supremacy of

(a) Spirit over matter (b) God
(c) Noumena (d) Materialism

17. Maieutic method is by ------Philosopher

(a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Socrates (d) Democritus

18. Who said that the unexamined life is not worth living?
(a) Anximander (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Aristotle

19. Socrates is a prominent ------ philosopher

(a) Greek (b) Pragmatist (c) German (d) French

20. Whose doctrine is “Know Thyself”?

(a) Plato (b) Thales (c) Protagoras (d) Socrates

21 Socrates is a mentor of --------

(a)Democritus (b) Sophists (c) Plato (d) Pythagoras

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22 ---- invented the dialectic method of finding truth through conversation

(a)Socrates (b) Plato (c) Aristotle (d) all are true

23 “All Western philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”Who

said?
(a)Socrates (b) Aristotle
(c) Descartes (d) Alfred North Whitehead

24 Athens where Plato established ------, the first university in the Western
world
(a)Lyceum (b) Dialectics (c) Academy (d) all are true

25 In his famous “Allegory of the Cave,” ----- relates a story illustrating the
journey of the soul from ignorance to knowledge.
(a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Socrates (d) Protagoras

26 The Republic is the famous work of ---------

(a) Socrates (b) Thales (c) Plato (d) Sartre

27 Theory of truth lies in the theory of Ideas is the philosophy of

(a)Socrates (b) Pythagoras (c) Aristotle (d) Plato

28. Who distinguished world of ideas and physical world?

(a) Plato (b) Socrates (c) Aristotle (d) Kant

29. Aristotle mentioned theory of truth in his work------

(a) Analytic (b) Ethics (c) Epistemology (d) Metaphysics

30. For Plato, ---- are eternal ideas beyond the physical world.
(a) Forms (b) dialectics (c) phenomenon d) episteme

31. Who wrote Symposium?

(a)Thales (b) Aristotle (c) Plato (d) Anaxagoras

32 Aristotle was a student of ---

(a)Plato (b) Socrates (c) Protagoras (d) Anaximander

33. Who founded a school in Athens called Lyceum.

(a)Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Sophists

34. “There is no form without matter and no matter without form.”

(a)Leucippus (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Aristotle

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35 Matter is the substance out of which everything in the world is made is

the statement of -----
(a)Anaxagoras (b) Plato (c) Aristotle (d) Socrates

36. Who discovered four causes that govern change in everything?

(a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) St.Augustine (d) St.Anselm

37 Who believed that God created the world out of nothing and before God
created the world nothing existed?
(a) Anaximander (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) St. Augustine

38. The City of God is the work of ----

(a) St. Augustine (b) Plato (c) Aristotle (d) Pythagoras

39 Who said that through faith and reason together we could reach
“natural theological truth.”
(a) Socrates (b) St.Thomas Aquinas
(c) Moralist (d) Atomist

40. Summa Theologica is the work of ---------

(a)Plato (b) St. Anselm
(c) St. Thomas Aquinas (d) Thale

41 ------- predicted an eclipse of the sun

(a) Thales (b) Pythagoras (c) Socrates (d) Plato

42 Who was the first Milesian materialist philosopher?

(a)Heraclitus (b) Anaximander (c) Pythagoras (d) Thales

43 The major source of Thales’s philosophy is by

(a)Plato (b) Pythagoras (c)Socrates (d) Aristotle

44 Who said that living things are always moist?

(a)Plato (b) Socrates (c) Tales (d) Anaximander

45 Anaximander belongs to --------

(a) Stagira (b) Miletus (c) Samos (d) All are false

46. The Milesian philosophers were known as ………………………..

(a) natural philosophers (b) rationalists
(c) empiricists (d)atomists

47 Anaximander, a philosopher came after ------

(a)Anaximenes (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Thales

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48. apeiron in Anaximander means -----

(a) Formal Logic (b) infinite (c) eidos (d) hyle
49. Anaximander's cosmogony gives rise to a
(a) heliocentric (b) teleological (c) geocentric (d) god

50. Who said that in the beginning man was similar to a different animal,
namely, a fish.
(a)Anaximander (b) Leucippus (c) Pythagoras (d) Thales

51. The thinkers of Milesian school were the thinkers of ------

(a) metaphysics (b) nature (c) Religion (d) idealism

52 Pythagoras was born on-------

(a) Samos (b) Iona (c) Athens (d) all are false

53. Who believed in the immortality, transmigration, and reincarnation of

souls?
(a)Ionians (b) atomists (c) Pythagoras (d) Eleatic

54. Who included various dietary restrictions against meat and beans.
(a) Thales (b) Pythagoras (c) Anaximander (d) Socrates

55. Central to Pythagoreanism is the idea that --------- accounts take

precedence over material things.
(a)numbers (b) zeros (c) music (d) god

56. The order of the world is the result of a harmony, which was also
thought to consist in numerical ratios is the philosophy of
(a) Spirit over matter (b) realism
(c) Pythagoras (d) Materialism

57. ------is a Philosopher who made a distinction between mind and matter
(a) Anaxagoras (b)Thales (c) Socrates (d) Democritus

58. Who said that everything is a mixture of earth, air, fire, and water
(a) Anaximander (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Anaxagoras

59. ------- philosopher is the main source of Anaxagoras

(a) Socrates (b) Pythagoras (c) Plato (d) Herodotus

60. -----gave a power and grandeur to Athenian Democracy

(a) Pericles (b) Thales (c) Protagoras (d) Anaximander

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61 -- --is an important element introduced by Anaxagoras into his

philosophy and it is the cause of motion.
(a)change (b) god (c) matter (d) mind/ nous

62 The atomists are the last pre-Socratics and they follow------

(a)Physis (b) religion (c) theism (d) idealism

63 The word atom means ----

(a) cuttable (b) thesis (c) antithesis (d) uncuttable

64 ------is believed to be a disciple of Leucippus

(a)Protagoras (b) Democritus (c) Anaximander (d) Plato

65 ------ say that all things consist of a single kind of matter broken into
tiny particles.
(a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) atomists (d) Protagoras

66 Who claimed that there are two fundamental types of elements: atoms
and void.
(a) Socrates (b) atomists (c) Plato (d) idealist

67 Who held that the atoms were so small as to be invisible?

(a)Democritus (b) Pythagoras (c) Aristotle (d) Plato

68. Sophia which means -----

(a)wisdom (b) speech (c) action (d) concept

69. Protagoras a native of --------in northeast Greece

(a) Clazomen (b) Samos (c) Stagira (d) Abdera

70. Who was the first of the professional Sophists?

(a) Socrates (b) Democritus (c) Protagoras d) Plato

71. Who said that instead of speaking well think well?

(a)Thales (b) Aristotle (c) Plato (d) Socrates

72 Truth and On the Gods are the woks of -------

(a)Plato (b) Socrates (c) Protagoras (d) Anaximander

73. ------ were more concerned with public speaking, rather than thinking
well.
(a)materialists (b)rationalists (c) idealists (d) Sophists

74. Man is the measure of all things, says -----

(a)Leucippus (b) Protagoras (c) Socrates (d) Aristotle

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75 Maieutic means -----

(a)midwifery (b)dialectical (c) Perceptual (d)universal

76. --- –says that knowledge is an adjustment between the knower and the
object known
(a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Protagoras (d) St.Anselm

77 -----was known as a self- taught philosopher

(a) Anaximander (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) St. Augustine

78. Who was known as the street genius philosopher?

(a) Socrates (b) Plato (c) Aristotle (d) Pythagoras

79 Who was the author of philosophic tendency and of a Philosophic

method of irony?
(a) Socrates (b) Aquinas (c) Plato (d) Protagoras

80. Who said that the first step is to be wise is to admit that one is not wise.
(a)Plato (b) Anselm (c) Socrates (d) Thales

81 According to ------, knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice

(a)Thales (b) Plato (c)Pythagoras (d)Socrates

82. Who said that as virtue is knowledge, so virtue can be thought?

(a)Leucippus (b) Protagoras (c) Socrates (d) Aristotle

83 The highest ideal according to Socrates is -----

(a) matter (b)dialectical (c) statement (d)virtue

84. Concept means ------

(a)judgment (b) idea (c)virtue (d)particular

85 The mentor of Aristotle is ---

(a)Plato (b) Socrates (c) Academy (d) Lyceum

86 Who was the founder of Academy?

(a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Socrates (d) Protagoras

87 Apology is the famous work of ---------

(a) Socrates (b) Thales (c) Plato (d) Sartre

88 The concepts lies in the transcendental world is the philosophy of --------

(a)Socrates (b) Pythagoras (c) Aristotle (d) Plato

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89. Who distinguished knowledge and doxa?

(a) Plato (b) Socrates (c) Aristotle (d) Kant

90. The theory of forms/ideas/concepts/essences is the Philosophy of -------

(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Thales (d) Pythagoras

91 Plato wrote ------ dialogues

(a) 37 (b) 24 (c) 34 (d) 35

92. Who wrote Theaetetus?

(a)Thales (b) Aristotle (c) Plato (d) Anaxagoras

93 Who said that true knowledge lies in conceptual level?

(a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Protagoras (d) Anaximander

94. ------stated that the best possible political system (state) will be ruled by
philosophers.
(a)Aristotle (b) Sophists (c) Socrates (d) Plato

95. Whose philosophy is that one who knows the difference between
knowledge, ignorance, and opinion
(a)Leucippus (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Aristotle

96 The perceptible world (i.e., the world we perceive through our senses) is
a reflection or copy of that higher intelligible world is the philosophy of ------
(a) Plato (b) Anaxagoras (c) Aristotle (d) Socrates

97 The Greek word for “forms” in Plato is ---------

(a)hyle (b) logos (c) eidos (d) philos

98 Plato divided human soul into -------parts

(a)three (b) two (c) four (d) all are false

99 Plato’s Theory of Ideas was severely criticized by -------

(a) Protogoras (b) Socrates (c) Aristotle (d) all is true

100 Plato admit the immortality of soul in his ---- dialogue

(a) Apology (b) Republic (c) Theaetetus (d) Phaedo

101. ----------is a philosopher who was born at Stagira

(a)Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Thles

102 Which of the following philosopher who taught Alexander, the Great
(a)Leucippus (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Aristotle

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103 Which thinker who went to Athens and joined Plato’s Academy.
(a)Anaxagoras (b) Plato (c) Aristotle (d) Socrates

104 The works of------ are divided into two types-exoteric and esoteric.
(a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) St.Augustine (d) St.Anselm

105 Who wrote the famous work the Metaphysics?

(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) St. Augustine

106. Who defined substance is something that we can point out as ‘this’
(a) St. Augustine (b) Plato (c) Aristotle (d) Pythagoras

107 Who made the statement that Universals are extremely real but are not
separable from their particulars.
(a) Socrates (b) Aquinas (c) Plato (d) Aristotle

108 Who says that there are two state of being i.e., Potentiality and Actuality.
(a)Aristotle (b) Anselm (c) Aquinas (d) Thale

109 According to Aristotle, there are nine Categories and one----

(a)Universal (b) logic (c) substance (d) God

110 An uncaused cause according to Aristotle is called ------

(a)potentiality (b) The prime mover
(c) actuality (d) atom

111 The authoritative philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church is called -----
(a) Socrates (b) St.Thomas Aquinas
(c) St. Anselm (d) Plato

112 St. Thomas Aquinas was very much influenced the philosophy of -------
(a)Plato (b) St. Anselm (c) Socrates (d) Aristotle

113 St. Augustin based his philosophy and theology on the teachings of ------
(a) Thales (b) Pythagoras (c) Socrates (d) Plato

114 According to Augustine the lowest level of knowledge is called ------

(a)sensation (b) reason (c) god (d) noumena

115 St. Augustine says that knowledge of Divine is through ---

(a)phenomena (b) perception (c) soul (d) sensation

116 Who wrote the work the proslogium

(a)Plato (b) Socrates (c) Tales (d) St. Anselm

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117 Who is famous for the so-called ontological argument for the existent of
god?
(a) St. Anselm (b) Socrates (c) Plato (d) All are false

118 Who is called the father of Scholasticism?

(a)Anaxagoras (b) St. Anselm (c) Aristotle (d) Socrates

119 According to------,we have two sources of knowledge: faith and reason.
(a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) St.Anselm (d) Socrates

120 St. Augustine was very much influenced by the philosophy of--
(a) Aristotle (b) Plato (c) Socrates (d) Anselm

121. The Milesian philosophers were also known as…………..

(a) rationalists (b) empiricists
(c) atomists (d) the first materialists

122. .………………is considered as the founder of the atomistic school.

(a) Thales (b) Anaxiander (c) Leucippus (d)Aristotle

123. Crito is a work of………………….

(a)Plato (b) Aristotle (c) Socrates (d)Protagoras

124. Plato wrote…………………

(a) The City of God (b) Phaedo
(c) Summa Theologica (d) proslogium

125. Aristotle gives ………..supreme categories of thought.

(a)eight (b)ten (c) nine (d)seven

126. According to………………. faith and reason are neither mutually

exclusive nor contradictory but are mutually complementary
(a)Socrates (b) Plato (c) Aristotle (d)St.Augustine,

127 St. Anselm’s ontological argument proceeds from the idea of God to God
as…………… as existent.
(a) an idea (b) the cause (c) a reality (d) a number

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ANSWERS

1) a 2) a 3) c 4) d 5) d 6) b 7)a

8) c 9) b 10) b 11) a 12) d 13) b 14) d

15) a 16) a 17) c 18) c 19) a 20) d 21) c

22) a 23) d 24) c 25) a 26) c 27) d 28) a

29) d 30) a 31) c 32) a 33) a 34) d 35) c

36) b 37) d 38) a 39) b 40) c 41) a 42) d

43) d 44) c 45) b 46) a 47) d 48) b 49) c

50) a 51) b 52) a 53) c 54) b 55) a 56) c

57) a 58) d 59) c 60) a 61) d 62) a 63) d

64) b 65) c 66) b 67) a 68) a 69) d 70) c

71) d 72) c 73) d 74) b 75) a 76) c 77) c

78) a 79) a 80) c 81) d 82) c 83) d 84) b

85) a 86) a 87) c 88) d 89) a 90) b 91) c

92) c 93) b 94) d 95) b 96) a 97) c 98) a

99) c 100) d 101) a 102) d 103) c 104) b 105) a

106) c 107) d 108) a 109) c 110) b 111) b 112) d

113) d 114) a 115) c 116) d 117) a 118) b 119)c

120) b 121) d 122) c 123) a 124) b 125) b 126) d

127)c.

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