NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 29 of 90)
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- Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
- Match Item 1: Janism
- Match Item 2: The soul is the stream of conscious-ness or mental states
- Match Item 1: Nyaya
- Match Item 2: The soul is a substance which is Vaisesika eternal and which makes knowledge possible.
- Match Item 1: Buddhism
- Match Item 2: The soul is a pure, conscious, blissful reality which appears as divided into many selves.
- Match Item 1: Sankara
- Match Item 2: The individual soul is a portion of God, but it is limited and not all pervading.
- Consider the following statements: Faith is important
- for the masses, two cannot grasp philosophical demonstrations.
- since there are Christian truths which cannot be demonstrated
- for it prevents philosophers from becoming confused and going astray
- as it teaches many humility
- Which of the above statements according to Aquines are correct?
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 3
- 1 and 4
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- ‘If anyone born in barbarous nations do what lieth in him, God will reveal to him that which is necessary to salvation, either by inspiration or by sending a teacher’ is stated by
- St. Augustine
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- St. Anslem
- Johannes Eckhart
- Predicates are applied to the Creator and the creatures neither univocally nor equivocally but analogically. This theory is maintained by
- Naiyayikas
- Descartes
- St. Augustine
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- Which one of the following is NOT St. Augustine՚s view?
- Evil is privation of good
- Soul is a trinity of existence, knowledge and will
- Our knowledge of the world is more reliable than our knowledge of the soul
- The highest knowledge of reason is an insight into the creative principle
- According to St. Augustine, the origin of the world is from
- divine miracle
- emanation
- the material principle
- matter and form
- Which one of the following statements is NOT correct according to Spinoza?
- The mind exists as a finite temporal mode consisting of its thoughts, feeling and volitions
- The human mind is ‘the idea of the body’
- The states of mind are effects of bodily processes
- Every mind is a part of the infinite intellect
- Which of the following views are held by Spinoza?
- The order and connection of things are the same as the order and connection of idea.
- God is free in the sense that he creates the world because he wants to do so.
- All determination is negation
- The particular finite objects and minds are direct effects of the Substance or
- God.
- Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
- 1 and 2
- 1 and 3
- 2 and 4
- 3 and 4
- Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
- Which one of the following principles is used by Descartes to prove the existence of God?
- A perfect being must be the cause of contingent beings
- A perfect being must be the cause of the world as a whole
- A perfect being must be the cause to the idea of a perfect being
- A perfect must be the cause of harmony of the world
- Descartes says that he can be confident of the existence of the external objects because
- he directly sees his own body and external objects
- he cannot doubt his own existence
- God is not a deceiver
- innate ideas exist in every humanbeing
- According to Udayana
- God is the material cause of the world
- God is the efficient cause of the world
- God is both the material and the efficient cause of the world
- God creates good and evil in the world
- Which one of the following statements is correct according to Ramanuja?
- God can never be proved by inference. His existence has to be admitted on the testimony of scriptural texts and of those alone
- God can be proved by inference alone. Scriptural texts can only give some secondary support to this proof
- Inference and scriptural texts prove the existence of, God independently of each other
- Existence of God is a matter of personal faith and devotion. Neither reason nor scriptures can establish it
- The relation of the individual soul with God, according to Ramajuja, is
- Samavaya
- Samyoga
- Aprthaksiddhi
- Bhedabheda
- According to Ramajuja, Brahman is devoid of
- Sajatiya and vijatiya bheda
- Sajativa vijatiya and Svagatabheda
- Vijatiya and Svagatabheda
- Vijatiya and Svagatabheda
- ‘The third man argument’ aims to show that Plato՚s theory of Ideas involves
- inconsistent assertions
- circular reasoning
- petitio principlii
- infinite regress