NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 45 of 90)
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- Regarding the relation between mind and body, which one of the following is not acceptable to Descartes?
- They are independent substances
- There is no casual relation between them
- They interact with each other
- They depend on God for their existence
- Which one of the following correctly statement is not acceptable to Vaisesika philosophy?
- Manas is an atomic imperceptible substance, the existence of which can only be inferred
- The creation of the world is the ordering of the eternal atoms which are co-existent with God
- A substance (dravya) is indistinguishable form its qualities and actions
- A substance is the substratum of its qualities and actions
- To which category, according to the Vaisesika, does atman belong?
- Guna
- Karma
- Samanya
- Dravya
- Pudgala-nairatmya means
- Denial of an eternal spiritual substance
- Denial of an eternal material substance
- Denial of an eternal spiritual as well as material substance
- Acceptance of an eternal substance
- Which of the following statements are associated with St. Thomas Aquinas?
- The ontological argument for the existence of God is to be rejected
- God is pure form and pure actuality
- God is mere potential being
- God created the world out of preexisting matter
- Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 4
- 1 and 3
- 3 and 4
- ‘We must first believe in order that we know’ is the famous assertion made by
- St. Aquinas
- St. Augustine
- St. Anselm
- Plotinus
- On the issue of the creation of the universe by God, which one of the following positions is true of St. Augustine?
- The universe is created out of nothing at a given time by anact of God՚s free will
- The universe is created out of preexisting matter coeternal with God
- The universe is God՚s expression of the eternal act of creation
- The universe is created from within
- God out of divine necessity
- For Spinoza
- the world is a creation of the Absolute Substance, God, and is therefore ontologically distinct from God.
- the world is not ontologically distinct from God, because the world is God itself
- the world is a creation of God in the sense of being an expression of God՚s will to have a world
- the world is the expression of God՚s desire for natural splendor
- In order to prove the existence of God, Descartes used
- the Ontological Argument alone
- the Ontological and the Design Arguments
- the Ontological and the Cosmological Arguments
- the Cosmological Argument alone
- According to Nyaya-Vaisesika system, consciousness is
- the adventitious quality of the soul
- the essential quality of the soul
- identical with the soul
- a by-product of matter
- The principle of ‘intuitionism’ states that
- Moral judgements are based on social laws
- Conscience, immediately and intuitively, knows the rightness or wrongness of an action without reference to its consequences
- Rightness or wrongness of action is intrinsic
- Moral judgements are subjective in nature
- Which one of the following distinctions is not applicable to Kant?
- Distinction between nature and freedom
- Distinction between inclination and reason
- Distinction between acting morally and acting from the motive of duty
- Distinction between duty and selfinterest
- Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists:
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 45 of 90) List-I List-II - Freedom of the will
- Universal element in human nature
- The supreme good
- Act as a member of a Kingdom of ends
- Virtue
- Kant՚s third maxim
- Reason
- Fundamental postualte morality
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 4
- 1
- 3
- 2
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 4
- 4
- 3
- 1
- 2
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 4
- Emotivism holds that disagreement regarding values can never be debated and settled because value are
- natural
- attitudinal
- imperceptible
- religious
- Which of the following is correct? Prescriptivism as a meta-ethical theory says that
- moral judgements issue commands
- moral judgements prescribe a course of action
- moral judgements tell us to do something or stop doing something
- All the above three