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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Plato’s Theory of Ideas was severely criticized by ------- |
| A. | protogoras |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | all is true |
| Answer» D. all is true | |
| 2. |
The Greek word for “forms” in Plato is --------- (a)hyle (b) logos (c) eidos (d) philos98 Plato divided human soul into -------parts |
| A. | three |
| B. | two |
| C. | four |
| D. | all are false |
| Answer» D. all are false | |
| 3. |
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 |
| Answer» B. anaxagoras | |
| 4. |
Whose philosophy is that one who knows the difference betweenknowledge, ignorance, and opinion |
| A. | leucippus |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» C. socrates | |
| 5. |
------stated that the best possible political system (state) will be ruled byphilosophers. |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | sophists |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. |
Who said that true knowledge lies in conceptual level? |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | protagoras |
| D. | anaximander |
| Answer» C. protagoras | |
| 7. |
Who wrote Theaetetus? |
| A. | thales |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | plato |
| D. | anaxagoras |
| Answer» D. anaxagoras | |
| 8. |
Plato wrote ------ dialogues |
| A. | 37 |
| B. | 24 |
| C. | 34 |
| D. | 35 |
| Answer» D. 35 | |
| 9. |
The concepts lies in the transcendental world is the philosophy of -------- |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | pythagoras |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
The theory of forms/ideas/concepts/essences is the Philosophy of ------- |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | plato |
| C. | thales |
| D. | pythagoras |
| Answer» C. thales | |
| 11. |
Who distinguished knowledge and doxa? |
| A. | plato |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» B. socrates | |
| 12. |
Apology is the famous work of --------- |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | thales |
| C. | plato |
| D. | sartre |
| Answer» D. sartre | |
| 13. |
Who was the founder of Academy? |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» B. aristotle | |
| 14. |
The highest ideal according to Socrates is ----- |
| A. | matter |
| B. | dialectical |
| C. | statement |
| D. | virtue |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15. |
The mentor of Aristotle is --- |
| A. | plato |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | academy |
| D. | lyceum |
| Answer» B. socrates | |
| 16. |
Who said that as virtue is knowledge, so virtue can be thought? |
| A. | leucippus |
| B. | protagoras |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» D. aristotle | |
| 17. |
Concept means ------ |
| A. | judgment |
| B. | idea |
| C. | virtue |
| D. | particular |
| Answer» C. virtue | |
| 18. |
According to ------, knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice |
| A. | thales |
| B. | plato |
| C. | pythagoras |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
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» D. thales | |
| 20. |
Who was the author of philosophic tendency and of a Philosophicmethod of irony? |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | aquinas |
| C. | plato |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» B. aquinas | |
| 21. |
Who was known as the street genius philosopher? |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | plato |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | pythagoras |
| Answer» B. plato | |
| 22. |
-----was known as a self- taught philosopher |
| A. | anaximander |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | st. augustine |
| Answer» D. st. augustine | |
| 23. |
--- –says that knowledge is an adjustment between the knower and theobject known |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | protagoras |
| D. | st.anselm |
| Answer» D. st.anselm | |
| 24. |
Maieutic means ----- |
| A. | midwifery |
| B. | dialectical |
| C. | perceptual |
| D. | universal |
| Answer» B. dialectical | |
| 25. |
Man is the measure of all things, says ----- |
| A. | leucippus |
| B. | protagoras |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» C. socrates | |
| 26. |
------ were more concerned with public speaking, rather than thinkingwell. |
| A. | materialists |
| B. | rationalists |
| C. | idealists |
| D. | sophists |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
Truth and On the Gods are the woks of ------- |
| A. | plato |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | protagoras |
| D. | anaximander |
| Answer» D. anaximander | |
| 28. |
Who said that instead of speaking well think well? |
| A. | thales |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | plato |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
Who was the first of the professional Sophists? |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | democritus |
| C. | protagoras |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» D. plato | |
| 30. |
Sophia which means ----- |
| A. | wisdom |
| B. | speech |
| C. | action |
| D. | concept |
| Answer» B. speech | |
| 31. |
Protagoras a native of --------in northeast Greece |
| A. | clazomen |
| B. | samos |
| C. | stagira |
| D. | abdera |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
Who held that the atoms were so small as to be invisible? |
| A. | democritus |
| B. | pythagoras |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» B. pythagoras | |
| 33. |
Who claimed that there are two fundamental types of elements: atomsand void. |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | atomists |
| C. | plato |
| D. | idealist |
| Answer» C. plato | |
| 34. |
------ say that all things consist of a single kind of matter broken intotiny particles. |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | atomists |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» D. protagoras | |
| 35. |
------is believed to be a disciple of Leucippus |
| A. | protagoras |
| B. | democritus |
| C. | anaximander |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» C. anaximander | |
| 36. |
The word atom means ---- |
| A. | cuttable |
| B. | thesis |
| C. | antithesis |
| D. | uncuttable |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
The atomists are the last pre-Socratics and they follow------ |
| A. | physis |
| B. | religion |
| C. | theism |
| D. | idealism |
| Answer» B. religion | |
| 38. |
-----gave a power and grandeur to Athenian Democracy |
| A. | pericles |
| B. | thales |
| C. | protagoras |
| D. | anaximander |
| Answer» B. thales | |
| 39. |
-- --is an important element introduced by Anaxagoras into hisphilosophy and it is the cause of motion. |
| A. | change |
| B. | god |
| C. | matter |
| D. | mind/ nous |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
Who said that everything is a mixture of earth, air, fire, and water |
| A. | anaximander |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | anaxagoras |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
------- philosopher is the main source of Anaxagoras |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | pythagoras |
| C. | plato |
| D. | herodotus |
| Answer» D. herodotus | |
| 42. |
------is a Philosopher who made a distinction between mind and matter |
| A. | anaxagoras |
| B. | thales |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | democritus |
| Answer» B. thales | |
| 43. |
The order of the world is the result of a harmony, which was alsothought to consist in numerical ratios is the philosophy of |
| A. | spirit over matter |
| B. | realism |
| C. | pythagoras |
| D. | materialism |
| Answer» D. materialism | |
| 44. |
Who included various dietary restrictions against meat and beans. |
| A. | thales |
| B. | pythagoras |
| C. | anaximander |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» C. anaximander | |
| 45. |
Central to Pythagoreanism is the idea that --------- accounts takeprecedence over material things. |
| A. | numbers |
| B. | zeros |
| C. | music |
| D. | god |
| Answer» B. zeros | |
| 46. |
Who believed in the immortality, transmigration, and reincarnation ofsouls? |
| A. | ionians |
| B. | atomists |
| C. | pythagoras |
| D. | eleatic |
| Answer» D. eleatic | |
| 47. |
Pythagoras was born on------- |
| A. | samos |
| B. | iona |
| C. | athens |
| D. | all are false |
| Answer» B. iona | |
| 48. |
The thinkers of Milesian school were the thinkers of ------ |
| A. | metaphysics |
| B. | nature |
| C. | religion |
| D. | idealism |
| Answer» C. religion | |
| 49. |
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» B. leucippus | |
| 50. |
Anaximander's cosmogony gives rise to a |
| A. | heliocentric |
| B. | teleological |
| C. | geocentric |
| D. | god |
| Answer» D. god | |