Deck 3: Philosophical Concepts and Periods in Greek Philosophy

Question 1

According to Socrates knowledge is through -----------.

A)perception
B)concepts
C)both
D)none of these

Answer 1

concepts

Question 2

For Socrates knowledge is -----------

A)relative
B)universal
C)particular
D)absolute

Answer 2

universal

Question 3

According to Socrates ------------alone can take us to being.

A)percepts
B)concepts
C)inference
D)testimony

Answer 3

concepts

Question 4

------------ believed in universal validity of knowledge.

A)socrates
B)sophists
C)parmenides
D)democritus

Question 5

Sophists failed to accommodate the role -----------plays in the formation of knowledge

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

Question 6

------------------ maintained that virtue is knowledge of the good through concepts.

A)anaximander
B)anaximenes
C)democritus
D)socrates

Question 7

------------ claimed that real knowledge of justice, virtue are already present in man.

A)sophist
B)protagoras
C)socrates
D)anaximander

Question 8

According to ----------- knowledge is virtue and virtue is true knowledge

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

Question 9

From -------- Plato derived the doctrine of the eternity and changelessness of idea.

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

Question 10

From------------Plato derived the notion of the immortality of the soul.

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

Question 11

From-------------Plato accepted the doctrine of the flux of sensible things.

A)heraclitus
B)socrates
C)parmenides
D)protagoras

Question 12

------------ is the doctrine that universals have their own independent existence.

A)realism
B)conceptualism
C)nominalism
D)idealism

Question 13

-------------- is the doctrine that universals are constructed by human mind.

A)realism
B)conceptualism
C)nominalism
D)idealism

Question 14

According to --------------- universals are mere words to think about class.

A)realism
B)nominalism
C)conceptualism
D)idealism

Question 15

According to --------- virtue is one.

A)heraclitus
B)socrates
C)parmenides
D)protagoras

Question 16

The theory of Ideas is proposed by ------------ .

A)aristotle
B)plato
C)heraclitus
D)parmenides

Question 17

---------- is the element common to the Individual man and the idea of the man.

A)third man
B)first man
C)second man
D)last man

Question 18

Which among the following is not a characteristic of idea.

A)universal
B)eternal
C)mutable
D)absolute

Question 19

Plato compares the Idea of the Good to that of --------.

A)star
B)sun
C)moon
D)none of these

Question 20

He Idea of ----------- is the highest reality and it is the cause of truth and knowledge.

A)good
B)reason
C)beauty
D)logic

Question 21

------------ period extends from 585 to the middle of the fifth century B.C.

A)pre-sophistic
B)socratic
C)sophistic
D)post- aristotelian

Question 22

The sophistic period is period of -----------

A)transition
B)reconstruction
C)decline
D)emergence

Question 23

The socratic period is a period of --------------

A)transition
B)reconstruction
C)decline
D)emergence

Question 24

--------- period extends from 430 BC to 320 BC

A)socratic
B)sophistic
C)pre- sophistic
D)ethical

Question 25

The period from 585 to the middle of the fifth century B.C. is known as ------- .

A)post aristotelian
B)pre -sophistic
C)socratic
D)sophistic