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SUB-TOPIC INFO – Philosophy (Section I: Metaphysics)
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Self and No-Self
(Metaphysics)
CUET PG – Philosophy (Practice Questions)
1. Philosophy of self primarily investigates:
a) Political identity
b) Metaphysical substance
c) Conceptual nature of personal identity
d) Ethical norms
Answer: c
2. A first-person definition of the self is characterized by:
a) Behavioral observation
b) Objective measurement
c) Subjective immediacy
d) Linguistic neutrality
Answer: c
3. Third-person definitions of the self aim to avoid reference to:
a) Behavior
b) Agency
c) Mental qualia
d) Language
Answer: c
4. Aristotle identified the soul primarily as:
a) A separable substance
b) A divine spark
c) An activity or actuality
d) A material process
Answer: c
5. For Aristotle, the soul is best understood as the:
a) Efficient cause of the body
b) First actuality of a living body
c) Final cause of the universe
d) Material essence
Answer: b
6. Aristotle’s knife analogy illustrates the soul as:
a) Substance
b) Formless matter
c) Functional activity
d) Divine entity
Answer: c
7. According to Aristotle, the intellect alone is:
a) Generated
b) Mortal
c) Immortal
d) Sensory
Answer: c
8. Aristotle’s account of soul most fully appears in:
a) Metaphysics
b) Nicomachean Ethics
c) De Anima
d) Politics
Answer: c
9. Aristotle rejected the idea that the body holds the soul together because:
a) Body is eternal
b) Soul is divisible
c) Soul is the principle of unity
d) Matter is illusory
Answer: c
10. Avicenna’s “floating man” thought experiment demonstrates:
a) Sensory dependence of self
b) Social construction of identity
c) Self-awareness independent of senses
d) Linguistic origin of self
Answer: c
