Deck 2: Greek Philosophers and Their Teachings

Question 1

----------- was a contemporary of Parmenides.

A)heraclitus
B)pythagoreans
C)eleatics
D)parmenides

Answer 1

heraclitus

Question 2

According to ------------- everything in the universe has in it its own opposites.

A)heraclitus
B)pythagoreans
C)eleatics
D)parmenides

Answer 2

heraclitus

Question 3

According to Heraclitus the ultimate kind of matter is -------- .

A)water
B)fire
C)air
D)none of these

Answer 3

fire

Question 4

The Ionian thinkers were --------- .

A)dualistic
B)monistic
C)pluralistic
D)none of these

Question 5

The Greek thinkers who drew our attension to proportion, order and harmony are --------- .

A)pythagoreans
B)eleatics
C)heraclitus
D)parmenides

Question 6

------------------- laid emphasis on vegetarianism.

A)pythagoreans
B)eleatics
C)heraclitus
D)parmenides

Question 7

------------------------laid emphasis on asceticism.

A)pythagoreans
B)eleatics
C)heraclitus
D)parmenides

Question 8

------------------ practiced a reformed kind of orphic religion.

A)pythagoreans
B)eleatics
C)heraclitus
D)parmenides

Question 9

-------------------- founded an order in which men and women were considered equal.

A)pythagoras
B)eleatics
C)heraclitus
D)parmenides

Question 10

According to -------------- the earth revolves round the central fire.

A)heracletus
B)eleatics
C)parmenides
D)pythagoreans

Question 11

Truth lies in reason and not in the world of sense is the fundamental position of ------ .

A)realism
B)materialism
C)idealism
D)none of these

Question 12

For ------- there is no past, no present, no future.

A)being
B)not-being
C)both
D)none of these

Question 13

Pre - sophistic philosophy is -----------because it conceived nature as animate or alive.

A)naturalistic
B)ontological
C)monistic
D)hylozoistic

Question 14

Pre - sophistic philosophy is -----------because its attension is directed to nature.

A)naturalistic
B)ontological
C)monistic
D)hylozoistic

Question 15

Pre - sophistic philosophy is ----------- , it enquires into the essence of things.

A)naturalistic
B)ontological
C)monistic
D)hylozoistic

Question 16

Pre - sophistic philosophy is ----------- it seeks to explain phenomena by single principle

A)naturalistic
B)ontological
C)monistic
D)hylozoistic

Question 17

Protagoras and Gorgias were ----------

A)sophists
B)philosophers
C)sages
D)none of these

Question 18

"Man is the measure of all things" is the famous teachings of ------------- .

A)socrates
B)sophists
C)protagoras
D)gorgias

Question 19

For------------- knowledge is perception.

A)protagoras
B)socrates
C)plato
D)aristotle

Question 20

Homo mensura is the famous saying by

A)socrates
B)plato
C)aristotle
D)protagoras

Question 21

According to ------------ even if there is anything we cannot know it.

A)gorgias
B)aistotle
C)plato
D)socrates

Question 22

Protagoras was influenced by ---------- in propounding his epistemology.

A)leucippus
B)democritus
C)gorgias
D)socrates

Question 23

------------- deny the universality of knowledge.

A)socrates
B)sophists
C)plato
D)none of these

Question 24

According to sophists ----------- can give us only relative knowledge.

A)reason
B)perception
C)inference
D)none of these

Question 25

Which one of the following is not a dialogue by Plato

A)meno
B)republic
C)phaedo
D)poetics