NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 40 of 90)
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- Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
- Match Item 1: Duration
- Match Item 2: Of two pleasures otherwise equal, the more durable will be better
- Match Item 1: Intensity
- Match Item 2: One pleasure may be more intense than the other
- Match Item 1: Extensity
- Match Item 2: One pleasure may be shared by a larger number of persons than another
- Match Item 1: Quality
- Match Item 2: One pleasure may be same as well as different from the other
- The categorical imperative is so called because the imperative is obligatory
- Psychologically
- Religiously
- Rationally
- Socially
- Which one of the following are moral postulates according to Kant?
- Reality of time and transcendentality of self.
- Existence of God and the autonomy of will.
- The reality of evil and the grace of God.
- Freedom of will and immortality of the soul.
- Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
- 1 and 2
- 1,2 and 3
- 3 and 4
- 2 and 4
- Categorical imperative is a
- Synthetic a priori practical proposition
- Analytic a priori theoretical proposition
- Synthetic a posteriori practical proposition
- Analytic a posteriori practical proposition
- Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
- Match Item 1: I Kant
- Match Item 2: Moral principles are commands of reason
- Match Item 1: J S Mill
- Match Item 2: Pleasure is desirable because people do desire pleasure
- Match Item 1: J Bentham
- Match Item 2: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovernance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure
- Match Item 1: GE Moore
- Match Item 2: Moral rules are empirical generalization
- Under which one of the following ethical theories, can Carvaka view on ethics and morality be classified?
- Rigorism
- Altruism
- Hedonism
- Perfectionism
- If man՚s will is free then which one of the following cannot be accepted?
- A man could have done otherwise if he had chosen
- He could have chosen otherwise
- His choice is the result of previous causes
- He choose after full deliberation of alternatives
- Consider the following statements: The principle: ‘Greatest happiness of the greatest number’ is
- an egoistic principle
- a principle of utility
- a maximizing principle
- a teleological principle
- Which of the statements given above are correct?
- 1,2 and 3
- 1,3 and 4
- 2,3 and 4
- 1,2 and 4
- According to Bentham ‘extent of a pleasure’ means
- shareability with other people
- proximity intime
- bringing along other pleasures
- freedom from pain
- Which of the following is correct? Mill is not a consistent hedonist because he admits
- qualitative distincitons of pleasures
- internal sanctions of duty
- feeling of remorse for not doing our duty
- All of the above three
- Consider the following statements:
- The Kantian command of treating another person as an end means:
- We are obliged to promote our happiness at his cost.
- We are never to use him as an instrument
- We are to respect his human worth
- Not even God is ‘allowed’ to treat him as means
- Which of the statements given above are correct?
- 1 and 2
- 2,3 and 4
- 1,2 and 4
- 1,3 and 4
- Which of the statements given above are correct?
- For Kant, in comparison to an action done out of goodwill, an action done out of goodwill mixed with the inclination of benevolence is of
- superior moral worth
- inferior moral worth
- equal moral worth
- mixed moral worth
- Consider the following statements:
- According to naturalism, moral judgements are like factual statements, because they are descripting
- cognitive
- evaluative
- Which of the statements given above are correct?
- 1,2 and 3
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 3
- 1 and 3
- Consider the following statements: Descriptivism does not distinguist between moral judgements and descriptive statements, because it believes that
- moral judgements canhave descriptive components
- moral judgements can have truth values
- descriptive statements can have moral components
- moral judgements and descriptive statements are not distinguishable at all
- Which of the statements given above are correct?
- 1,2 and 3
- 2,3 and 4
- 1,3 and 4
- 1,2 and 4
- Freedom of the will is a postulate of morality. ‘Postulate’ here means:
- Temporally prior
- Presupposition
- Hypothesis in need of verification
- None of the above three