Classical Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions
1. The original principle of this universe is——- according to Thales
a. water
b. fire
c. air
d. ether
Answer:
a. water
2. Thales is a—— philosopher
a. milesian
b. hebrew
c. arab
d. german
Answer:
a. milesian
3. ——– was counted among the Seven Wise Men
a. plato
b. socrates
c. thales
d. aristotle
Answer:
c. thales
4. The arche of things is apeiron, according to ——
a. plato
b. socrates
c. tales
d. anaximander
Answer:
d. anaximander
5. According to Anaximenes— is the first principle
a. fire
b. water
c. infinite
d. air
Answer:
d. air
6. Who said number is the essence and basis of all things?
a. descartes
b. pythagoras
c. anaxagoras
d. kant
Answer:
b. pythagoras
7. Who is known as the Father of Western Philosophy?
a. thales
b. plato
c. socrates
d. aristotle
Answer:
a. thales
8. Aristotle is credited with ———
a. mathematical logic
b. symbolic logic
c. syllogistic arguments
d. none of the above
Answer:
c. syllogistic arguments
9. Who advocated theory of atoms?
a. plato
b. democritus
c. thales
d. leibnitz
Answer:
b. democritus
10. Who is the main atomist?
a. leibnitz
b. leucippus
c. pythagoras
d. kepler
Answer:
b. leucippus
11. Protagoras is a ——Philosopher
a. sophist
b. spiritualist
c. religious
d. idealist
Answer:
a. sophist
12. Man is the measure of all things, according to ——
a. thales
b. plato
c. aristotle
d. protagoras
Answer:
d. protagoras
13. Democritus and Leucippus are belonging to—— school
a. ionian
b. atomist
c. idealist
d. eleatic
Answer:
b. atomist
14. —– was the first Athenian born Philosopher
a. thales
b. plato
c. aristotle
d. socrates
Answer:
d. socrates
15. Knowledge is relative associated with
a. protagoras
b. pythagoras
c. anaximander
d. thales
Answer:
a. protagoras
16. Idealism is a systematic philosophy which teaches the supremacy of
a. spirit over matter
b. god
c. noumena
d. materialism
Answer:
a. spirit over matter
17. Maieutic method is by ——Philosopher
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. socrates
d. democritus
Answer:
c. socrates
18. Who said that the unexamined life is not worth living?
a. anximander
b. plato
c. socrates
d. aristotle
Answer:
c. socrates
19. Socrates is a prominent —— philosopher
a. greek
b. pragmatist
c. german
d. french
Answer:
a. greek
20. Whose doctrine is “Know Thyself”?
a. plato
b. thales
c. protagoras
d. socrates
Answer:
d. socrates
21. Socrates is a mentor of ——–
a. democritus
b. sophists
c. plato
d. pythagoras
Answer:
c. plato
22. —- invented the dialectic method of finding truth through conversation
a. socrates
b. plato
c. aristotle
d. all are true
Answer:
a. socrates
23. “All Western philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”Who said?
a. socrates
b. aristotle
c. descartes
d. alfred north whitehead
Answer:
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
Answer:
c. academy
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
Answer:
a. plato
26. The Republic is the famous work of ———
a. socrates
b. thales
c. plato
d. sartre
Answer:
c. plato
27. Theory of truth lies in the theory of Ideas is the philosophy of
a. socrates
b. pythagoras
c. aristotle
d. plato
Answer:
d. plato
28. Who distinguished world of ideas and physical world?
a. plato
b. socrates
c. aristotle
d. kant
Answer:
a. plato
29. Aristotle mentioned theory of truth in his work—––
a. analytic
b. ethics
c. epistemology
d. metaphysics
Answer:
d. metaphysics
30. For Plato, —- are eternal ideas beyond the physical world.
a. forms
b. dialectics
c. phenomenon
d. episteme
Answer:
a. forms
31. Who wrote Symposium?
a. thales
b. aristotle
c. plato
d. anaxagoras
Answer:
c. plato
32. Aristotle was a student of —
a. plato
b. socrates
c. protagoras
d. anaximander
Answer:
a. plato
33. Who founded a school in Athens called Lyceum.
a. aristotle
b. plato
c. socrates
d. sophists
Answer:
a. aristotle
34. “There is no form without matter and no matter without form.”
a. leucippus
b. plato
c. socrates
d. aristotle
Answer:
d. aristotle
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
Answer:
c. aristotle
36. Who discovered four causes that govern change in everything?
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. st.augustine
d. st.anselm
Answer:
b. aristotle
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
Answer:
d. st. augustine
38. The City of God is the work of —-
a. st. augustine
b. plato
c. aristotle
d. pythagoras
Answer:
a. st. augustine
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
Answer:
b. st.thomas aquinas
40. Summa Theologica is the work of ———
a. plato
b. st. anselm
c. st. thomas aquinas
d. thale
Answer:
c. st. thomas aquinas
41. ——- predicted an eclipse of the sun
a. thales
b. pythagoras
c. socrates
d. plato
Answer:
a. thales
42. Who was the first Milesian materialist philosopher?
a. heraclitus
b. anaximander
c. pythagoras
d. thales
Answer:
d. thales
43. The major source of Thales’s philosophy is by
a. plato
b. pythagoras
c. socrates
d. aristotle
Answer:
d. aristotle
44. Who said that living things are always moist?
a. plato
b. socrates
c. tales
d. anaximander
Answer:
c. tales
45. Anaximander belongs to ——–
a. stagira
b. miletus
c. samos
d. all are false
Answer:
b. miletus
46. The Milesian philosophers were known as ………………………..
a. natural philosophers
b. rationalists
c. empiricists
d. atomists
Answer:
a. natural philosophers
47. Anaximander, a philosopher came after ——
a. anaximenes
b. plato
c. socrates
d. thales
Answer:
d. thales
48. apeiron in Anaximander means —–
a. formal logic
b. infinite
c. eidos
d. hyle
Answer:
b. infinite
49. Anaximander’s cosmogony gives rise to a
a. heliocentric
b. teleological
c. geocentric
d. god
Answer:
c. geocentric
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
Answer:
a. anaximander
51. The thinkers of Milesian school were the thinkers of ——
a. metaphysics
b. nature
c. religion
d. idealism
Answer:
b. nature
52. Pythagoras was born on——–
a. samos
b. iona
c. athens
d. all are false
Answer:
a. samos
53. Who believed in the immortality, transmigration, and reincarnation of souls?
a. ionians
b. atomists
c. pythagoras
d. eleatic
Answer:
c. pythagoras
54. Who included various dietary restrictions against meat and beans.
a. thales
b. pythagoras
c. anaximander
d. socrates
Answer:
b. pythagoras
55. Central to Pythagoreanism is the idea that ——— accounts take precedence over material things.
a. numbers
b. zeros
c. music
d. god
Answer:
a. numbers
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
Answer:
c. pythagoras
57. ——is a Philosopher who made a distinction between mind and matter
a. anaxagoras
b. thales
c. socrates
d. democritus
Answer:
a. anaxagoras
58. Who said that everything is a mixture of earth, air, fire, and water
a. anaximander
b. plato
c. socrates
d. anaxagoras
Answer:
d. anaxagoras
59. ——- philosopher is the main source of Anaxagoras
a. socrates
b. pythagoras
c. plato
d. herodotus
Answer:
c. plato
60. —–gave a power and grandeur to Athenian Democracy
a. pericles
b. thales
c. protagoras
d. anaximander
Answer:
a. pericles
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
Answer:
d. mind/ nous
62. The atomists are the last pre-Socratics and they follow——
a. physis
b. religion
c. theism
d. idealism
Answer:
a. physis
63. The word atom means —-
a. cuttable
b. thesis
c. antithesis
d. uncuttable
Answer:
d. uncuttable
64. ——is believed to be a disciple of Leucippus
a. protagoras
b. democritus
c. anaximander
d. plato
Answer:
b. democritus
65. —— say that all things consist of a single kind of matter broken into tiny particles.
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. atomists
d. protagoras
Answer:
c. atomists
66. Who claimed that there are two fundamental types of elements: atoms and void.
a. socrates
b. atomists
c. plato
d. idealist
Answer:
b. atomists
67. Who held that the atoms were so small as to be invisible?
a. democritus
b. pythagoras
c. aristotle
d. plato
Answer:
a. democritus
68. Sophia which means —–
a. wisdom
b. speech
c. action
d. concept
Answer:
a. wisdom
69. Protagoras a native of ——–in northeast Greece
a. clazomen
b. samos
c. stagira
d. abdera
Answer:
d. abdera
70. Who was the first of the professional Sophists?
a. socrates
b. democritus
c. protagoras
d. plato
Answer:
c. protagoras
71. Who said that instead of speaking well think well?
a. thales
b. aristotle
c. plato
d. socrates
Answer:
d. socrates
72. Truth and On the Gods are the woks of ——-
a. plato
b. socrates
c. protagoras
d. anaximander
Answer:
c. protagoras
73. —— were more concerned with public speaking, rather than thinking well.
a. materialists
b. rationalists
c. idealists
d. sophists
Answer:
d. sophists
74. Man is the measure of all things, says —–
a. leucippus
b. protagoras
c. socrates
d. aristotle
Answer:
b. protagoras
75. Maieutic means —–
a. midwifery
b. dialectical
c. perceptual
d. universal
Answer:
a. midwifery
76. — –says that knowledge is an adjustment between the knower and the object known
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. protagoras
d. st.anselm
Answer:
c. protagoras
77. —–was known as a self- taught philosopher
a. anaximander
b. plato
c. socrates
d. st. augustine
Answer:
c. socrates
78. Who was known as the street genius philosopher?
a. socrates
b. plato
c. aristotle
d. pythagoras
Answer:
a. socrates
79. Who was the author of philosophic tendency and of a Philosophic method of irony?
a. socrates
b. aquinas
c. plato
d. protagoras
Answer:
a. socrates
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
Answer:
c. socrates
81. According to ——, knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice
a. thales
b. plato
c. pythagoras
d. socrates
Answer:
d. socrates
82. Who said that as virtue is knowledge, so virtue can be thought?
a. leucippus
b. protagoras
c. socrates
d. aristotle
Answer:
c. socrates
83. The highest ideal according to Socrates is —–
a. matter
b. dialectical
c. statement
d. virtue
Answer:
d. virtue
84. Concept means ——
a. judgment
b. idea
c. virtue
d. particular
Answer:
b. idea
85. The mentor of Aristotle is —
a. plato
b. socrates
c. academy
d. lyceum
Answer:
a. plato
86. Who was the founder of Academy?
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. socrates
d. protagoras
Answer:
a. plato
87. Apology is the famous work of ———
a. socrates
b. thales
c. plato
d. sartre
Answer:
c. plato
88. The concepts lies in the transcendental world is the philosophy of ——–
a. socrates
b. pythagoras
c. aristotle
d. plato
Answer:
d. plato
89. Who distinguished knowledge and doxa?
a. plato
b. socrates
c. aristotle
d. kant
Answer:
a. plato
90. The theory of forms/ideas/concepts/essences is the Philosophy of ——-
a. aristotle
b. plato
c. thales
d. pythagoras
Answer:
b. plato
91. Plato wrote —— dialogues
a. 37
b. 24
c. 34
d. 35
Answer:
c. 34
92. Who wrote Theaetetus?
a. thales
b. aristotle
c. plato
d. anaxagoras
Answer:
c. plato
93. Who said that true knowledge lies in conceptual level?
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. protagoras
d. anaximander
Answer:
b. aristotle
94. ——stated that the best possible political system (state) will be ruled by philosophers.
a. aristotle
b. sophists
c. socrates
d. plato
Answer:
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
Answer:
b. plato
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
Answer:
a. plato
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
Answer:
c. four
98. Plato’s Theory of Ideas was severely criticized by ——-
a. protogoras
b. socrates
c. aristotle
d. all is true
Answer:
c. aristotle
99. Plato admit the immortality of soul in his —- dialogue
a. apology
b. republic
c. theaetetus
d. phaedo
Answer:
d. phaedo
100. ———-is a philosopher who was born at Stagira
a. aristotle
b. plato
c. socrates
d. thles
Answer:
a. aristotle
101. Which of the following philosopher who taught Alexander, the Great
a. leucippus
b. plato
c. socrates
d. aristotle
Answer:
d. aristotle
102. Which thinker who went to Athens and joined Plato’s Academy.
a. anaxagoras
b. plato
c. aristotle
d. socrates
Answer:
c. aristotle
103. The works of—— are divided into two types-exoteric and esoteric.
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. st.augustine
d. st.anselm
Answer:
b. aristotle
104. Who wrote the famous work the Metaphysics?
a. aristotle
b. plato
c. socrates
d. st. augustine
Answer:
a. aristotle
105. Who defined substance is something that we can point out as ‘this’
a. st. augustine
b. plato
c. aristotle
d. pythagoras
Answer:
c. aristotle
106. Who made the statement that Universals are extremely real but are not separable from their particulars.
a. socrates
b. aquinas
c. plato
d. aristotle
Answer:
d. aristotle
107. Who says that there are two state of being i.e., Potentiality and Actuality.
a. aristotle
b. anselm
c. aquinas
d. thale
Answer:
a. aristotle
108. According to Aristotle, there are nine Categories and one—-
a. universal
b. logic
c. substance
d. god
Answer:
c. substance
109. An uncaused cause according to Aristotle is called ——
a. potentiality
b. the prime mover
c. actuality
d. atom
Answer:
b. the prime mover
110. The authoritative philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church is called —–
a. socrates
b. st.thomas aquinas
c. st. anselm
d. plato
Answer:
b. st.thomas aquinas
111. St. Thomas Aquinas was very much influenced the philosophy of ——-
a. plato
b. st. anselm
c. socrates
d. aristotle
Answer:
d. aristotle
112. St. Augustin based his philosophy and theology on the teachings of ——
a. thales
b. pythagoras
c. socrates
d. plato
Answer:
d. plato
113. According to Augustine the lowest level of knowledge is called ——
a. sensation
b. reason
c. god
d. noumena
Answer:
a. sensation
114. St. Augustine says that knowledge of Divine is through —
a. phenomena
b. perception
c. soul
d. sensation
Answer:
c. soul
115. Who wrote the work the proslogium
a. plato
b. socrates
c. tales
d. st. anselm
Answer:
d. st. anselm
116. 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
Answer:
a. st. anselm
117. Who is called the father of Scholasticism?
a. anaxagoras
b. st. anselm
c. aristotle
d. socrates
Answer:
b. st. anselm
118. According to——,we have two sources of knowledge: faith and reason.
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. st.anselm
d. socrates
Answer:
c. st.anselm
119. St. Augustine was very much influenced by the philosophy of–
a. aristotle
b. plato
c. socrates
d. anselm
Answer:
b. plato
120. The Milesian philosophers were also known as…………..
a. rationalists
b. empiricists
c. atomists
d. the first materialists
Answer:
d. the first materialists
121. .………………is considered as the founder of the atomistic school.
a. thales
b. anaxiander
c. leucippus
d. aristotle
Answer:
c. leucippus
122. Crito is a work of………………….
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. socrates
d. protagoras
Answer:
a. plato
123. Plato wrote…………………
a. the city of god
b. phaedo
c. summa theologica
d. proslogium
Answer:
b. phaedo
124. Aristotle gives ………..supreme categories of thought.
a. eight
b. ten
c. nine
d. seven
Answer:
b. ten
125. According to………………. faith and reason are neither mutually exclusive nor contradictory but are mutually complementary
a. socrates
b. plato
c. aristotle
d. st.augustine,
Answer:
d. st.augustine,
126. 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
Answer:
c. a reality