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Philosophy of Education (EDU601)

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Objective Questions

  1. What is the area of philosophy that investigates the nature, sources, limitation, and validity of knowledge.

    1. Analytic belief
    2. Metaphysics
    3. Epistemology
    4. Axiology
  2. According to Kant, the basis of morality is the concept of:

    1. Charity
    2. Fairness
    3. piety
    4. freedom
  3. Aristotle divides the virtues into:

    1. natural virtues and artificial virtues
    2. moral virtues and intellectual virtues
    3. positive virtues and negative virtues
    4. human virtues and divine virtues
  4. "Children ought to be educated, not for the present, but for a possibly improved condition of man in the future: that is, in a manner which is adopted to the idea of humanity and the whole destiny of man." Thoughts on Education by:

    1. Aristotle
    2. Rousseau
    3. Kant
    4. Plato
  5. Which one is the primary condition of growth?

    1. Maturity
    2. Balance
    3. Immaturity
    4. Failure
  6. What is the approximation of thought to reality?

    1. Analytic belief
    2. Truth
    3. Axiology
    4. Metaphysics
  7. Kant claims that the natural purpose of reason is to:

    1. produce happiness
    2. produce pleasure
    3. produce knowledge
    4. produce a good will
  8. Kant was influenced by the works of ________ who had 'put him on the right track'

    1. Plato
    2. Socrates
    3. Aristotle
    4. Rousseau
  9. What did Plato do in order to start his own school?

    1. He took Aristotle's ideas
    2. It popped up in his mind while he was in the hot springs
    3. He wrote down what Socrates has taught him
    4. He ade up his own philosophy
  10. In what age range, the people would philosophies and would go up to the level of philosopher king?

    1. Ages 30 - 50
    2. Ages 30 - 45
    3. Ages 35-50
    4. Ages 40-55
  11. Kant claims that the moral law is given to each person:

    1. society
    2. one's own will
    3. God
    4. Nature
  12. Who was the famous philosopher that came after Aristotle?

    1. Socrates
    2. There was none
    3. Aristotle Jr.
    4. Plato
  13. Aristotle claims that:

    1. virtue is in our power, and so is vice
    2. virtue is in our power, but vice is not
    3. vice is in our power, but virtue is not
    4. neither virtue nor vice is in our power
  14. According to Kant, moral laws are:

    1. necessary and apply to all rational beings
    2. contingent and apply only to human beings
    3. culturally relative
    4. grounded in God's commands
  15. According to Kant, morality requires us to:

    1. perform the action that leads to the greatest total happiness
    2. act only on maxims that we can will to become universal laws
    3. behave only in such a way as a perfectly virtuous person would behave
    4. place the interests of others above the interests
  16. Immaturity is the potential rather than the capacity to:

    1. Grow
    2. Involve
    3. Sustain
    4. Follow
  17. Which is the following is not included in dialectic method:

    1. Critical attitude
    2. Basic knowledge
    3. backgroun in mathematics
    4. Extended study