233. It bears the knowledge according to Aristotle:

• Soul

234. What kind of philosophy, according to Aristotle, studied the activity of the man, organization of the state:

• Practical

235. He was called "the first teacher":

• Aristotle

236. The teacher of Alexander the Great was:

• Aristotle

237. According to Aristotle, the best form of state is:

• Aristocracy

238. Which of the following is always an end in itself, according to Aristotle?

• Happiness

239. How do we learn virtue in Aristotle’s view?

• By habbit

240. Which of the following does Aristotle consider to be the worst?

• Being great and expecting moderate honors(1)

241. How is justice different from virtue, according to Aristotle?

• Justice deals with our relations to others, while virtue is a state of being

242. According to Aristotle, what is the best form of friendship based upon?

• Goodness

243. Which of the following relationships is analogous to the king-subject relationship?

• Father-son

244. How should one treat an old friend whom one has long since exceeded in friendship?

• Break only of the friendship but maintain feelings of the goodwill for the old friend

245. “Emanation” means:

• Out flowing of overfilled being

246. Philosophy of the Middle Ages characterized as "school philosophy" was called:

• Scholastics

247. In considering of that problem there emerged nominalism and realism in the Middle Ages:

• Universals

248. The author of “The Tractatus of the views of the citizens of a Virtuous City” is called “the second teacher”:

• Al-Farabi

249. An important tradition borrowed by Al-Farabi from ancient philosophy is called:

• Peripateticism

250. Outstanding philosopher and doctor of the Arab medieval world, author of «Canon of medical science»:

• Ibn Sina

251. According to Augustine spiritual substance

• has no spatial qualities

252. Augustine holds that God’s creation of the universe takes place:

• Eternally

1. When did philosophy begin? a) 6th Century B.C.

2. Where did philosophy begin? d) in Ancient Greece

3. The first "scientists" in Ancient Greece were called… c) natural philosophers

4. Complete the sentence. Philosophy is …. b) the form of human spiritual activity

5. What does philosophy involve?

e) reflection about aims, meaning, sense and essence of personality taken as subject of culture.

6. The main peculiarity of philosophy is:

a) study relationship between personality and society or objective reality.

7. What schools the fundamental question of philosophy connected with?

c) materialism and idealism

8. Why does philosophy differ from mythology very much.

a) because mythology involves the belief to the God, explanation of our reality’s by the God’s will.

9. Choose the right sentence.

e) mythology consist of notions of an all – powerful God is in control of everything.

10. What philosophical school claims that origins of our world is an idea (God, God’s mind, universal intelligence, universal reason or absolute spirit ). d) idealistic

11. What discipline tries to explain that moral principles have an objective foundation. a) philosophy

12. The main function of philosophy is:

b) to preserve spiritual values and to form scientific worldview (philosophy).

13. Complete the sentence. Philosophy is humanitarian discipline, it learns students to…

e) develop their thinking and speech.

14. What does philosophy usually use? a) scientific methods of cognition.

15 Complete the sentence. By the materialism - our reality is made of … d) material staff

16. The fundamental question of the human is: a) essence of his life

17. Call the scientific methods of cognition. c) experiment, theory, analogy, analysis, synthesis.

18. Culture is: c) spiritual and material values of the humanity

19. Function of philosophy is:

b) summarize all scientific achievements of different sciences and makes up common notion (representation) of the world

20. Experiment is: d) scientific method of cognition.

21.Call the oldest major world religion.e) Hinduism

22.What culture has Hinduism its origin at least as far back as 3000 BC.a) in ancient Vedic culture

23. What does mokshamean?b) liberation

24. Where do many streams of hinduistic thought flow from? .

e) Vedic/Hindu schools, Bhakti sects and Tantra Agamic schools

25. What does ahimsamean?b) non-violence

26. What things are common to all Hindus?

d) belief in Dharma, reincarnation, karma, and moksha

27. Call fundamental principles of hinduism.

a) ahimsa (non-violence), the primacy of the Guru, the Divine Word of Aum and the power of mantras, love of Truth

28. What classical text is Confucianismbased on?c) chinese

29. What was the mainstream ideology in China? a) Confucianism

30 Call Taoism's central books? b) Tao Te Ching,

31. What does Taoism emphasize? d) Nature, individual freedom, refusal of social bounds

32. Call main principle of Taoism. e) Wuwei ("non-action").

33. What does Legalism advocate? a) strict interpretation of the law in every respect

34. What religion claims that morality is not important? b)Legalism

35. Choose the right sentence. e) Jainism was founded by Mahavira,

36. Choose the right sentence. a) Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama

37 Choose the right sentence. a) By Dukkha all worldly life is unsatisfactory, disjointed

38. Where does the word Jaina come from? a) the title Jina,

39. Complete the sentence. Jainism teaches:

d) asceticism - acts of self-discipline, self-deprivation, and self-denial - as the way to enlightenment.

40. Complete the sentence. Buddhism is: a) non-theistic religion,

41.Choose the wrong sentence: c) Confucionism consist of Toaism divine book

42. Choose the wrong sentence: a) Brahmanism is ancient religion of Korea

43. Complete the sentence. Bodhidharmawas a:

b) semilegendary Indian monk who traveled to China in the 5th century.

44. Describe the Shintoreligion.

b) Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan, a sophisticated form of animism that holds that spirits called kami inhabit all things.

45. Where do Zen practitioners engage in? e) zazen (just sitting) meditation.

46. Choose the right sentence.

b) Classical (or "early") Greek philosophy focused on the role of reason and inquiry..

47. . Complete the sentence. The history of philosophy in the Westbegins with:d) Greek philosophy

48. What did the pre-Socratic philosophers reject?

e) traditional mythological explanations for the phenomena they saw around them

49. Complete the sentence. Early greek philosophers depended on reasonand observation to…,

b) illuminate the true nature of the world around them

50. Complete the sentence. Ancient greek philosophers used rational argument…

b) to advance their views to others

51. Choose the wrong sentence.

d) transcendental idealism – the philosophy of Plato and later Greek Idealist philosophers;

52. Choose the wrong sentence.

b) Greek philosophy took their origin in the works of Augustus

53. Choose the wrong sentence. c) Plato is a teacher of Socrates

54. What did Socrates make his most important contribution to Western thought through?

a) his method of enquiry

55. What philosopher considered that change is the most important fact about the world? b) Heraclitus

56. What form did Plato write his philosophical dialogues—arguments in?

a) in the form of conversations

57. Choose the right sentence.

b) Buddhism is a system of beliefs based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama,

58. Why by Heraclitus the river where you set your foot just now is gone?

b) because those waters giving way to this, now this.

59. Who set the stage for what would eventually develop into the scientific methodcenturies later in Europe.d) Aristotle

60. Call the most famous pupil of Socrates? d) Plato

61. Call the most important works of Aristotle.

e) Physics, Metaphysics, (Nicomachean) Ethics, Politics, De Anima (On the Soul), Poetics,

62. Which of these philosophers are not idealist? b) Aristotle, Democritus

63. Which of them are belonged to the period of Medieval philosophy? d) Augustus, Aquinatus

64. Which of them are belonged to the period of German classical philosophy? c) I. Kant, Hegel

65. Which of them are belonged to the period of Greek philosophy? b) Plato, Aristotle

66. Which of them are belonged to the period of Enlightenment’s philosophy ? a) Diderote, Russo

67. Which of them are belonged to the period of Renaissance’s philosophy? e) Machiavelli, D. Bruno

68. Whom has “Critique of pure reason” written by? c) I. Kant,

69. Whom have “ Metaphysics”, (Nicomachean) “Ethics”, written by?d) Aristotel

70. Which of them are belonged to Neoplatonicphilosophy?

a) Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Saint Anselm

d) Aristotel, Plato

71. What period of philosophy are nominalism and realism belonged to? c) Medieval

72. What period of philosophy is transcendentalism. belonged to?

d) German classical

73. What philosophical school followed in the legacy of Thomas Aquinas?a) Thomism

74. What philosophical direction denotes a life which is characterised by refraining from worldly pleasures (austerity) ?e) asceticism

75. –What philosophical notion states that the efforts of manto find meaning in theuniversewill ultimately fail because no such meaning exists (at least in relation to man)? d)absurdism

76. What philosophical notion expreses a condition of being without theistic beliefs and absence of belief in the existence of gods? b)atheism

77. What philosophical notion claims that our experience is not about the things as they are in themselves, but about are the things as they appear to us? c) transcendental idealism

78. What philosophical view explains that the only thing that can truly be said to 'exist' ismatter?

e) materialism

79. Call the theory according which all the objects in the universe are composed of very small, indestructibleelements? c)atomism

80. Call the philosophical notion according which any system of thought which denies the causal nexus and maintains that events succeed one another haphazardly or by chance (not in the mathematical but in the popular sense)? a) accidentalism

81. What philosophical direction denies the reality of the universe, seeing it as ultimately illusory, (the preffix "a-" in Greek meaning negation; like "un-" in English), and considers the infinite Unmanifest Absolute as real?b) acosmism

82. What philosophicalview considers thatruthvalues of certain claims — particularlytheologicalclaims regarding the existence ofGod,gods, ordeities— are unknown, inherently unknowable, or incoherent, and therefore, (some agnostics may go as far to say) irrelevant tolife?

c) agnosticism

83. Call the philosophical view according which everything is of an all-encompassing immanent God; or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent? d) pantheism

84. Call the form of theismthat holds that god contains, but is not identical to,the Universe. So the universe is part of god? a)panentheism

85. What philosophical view also called Homocentrism, is the practice, conscious or otherwise, of regarding the existence and/or concerns of human beingsas the central fact of theuniverse?

e) anthropocentrism

86. Call a form of personification(applying human or animal qualities to inanimate objects) and similar to prosopopoeia (adopting the persona of another person), which is the attribution ofhumancharacteristics and qualities to non-human beings, objects, or natural phenomena? d)anthropomorphism

87. What philosophical view claims that reason, rather thanrevelationortradition, should be the basis of belief in God? a)deism

88. What philosophicaldoctrine claims that all human knowledge ultimately comes from the senses and from experience? d)empiricism

89. Call the belief in one or more godsorgoddesses? a)theism

90.What philosophical view contains belief in, or worship of, multiple godsor divinities? b)polytheism

91. Call the belief that properties, usually called Universals, exist independently of the things that manifest them? b)realism

92. What metaphysicalandtheologicalviewconsiders that there is only oneprinciple,essence,substanceorenergyin universe? e)monism

93. What philosophical movementviews human existence as having a set of underlying themes and characteristics, such as anxiety, dread, freedom, awareness of death, and consciousness of existing, that are primary? b)existentialism

94. What philosophical movementviews the area of philosophy of the mind, and distinguishes a position where one believes there to be ultimately many kinds of substances in the world, as opposed tomonismanddualism? a)Pluralism

95. Call the philosophical position according which the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge. c) positivism

96. What philosophicaldirection has been originated in theUnited Statesin the late1800s. and has been characterized by the insistence on consequences, utility and practicality as vital components of meaning and truth?d) pragmatism

97. How do you call the devotion to a single godwhile accepting the existence of othergods?

e) henotheism

98. Call the school of philosophytaught by the academics (or schoolmen) of medievaluniversitiescirca1100-1500.c) scholasticism

99. How have the many various social and political movements, and a significant body of religious and secular literature which based upon the idea of paradiseon earth been called?b) utopianism

100. Call the the doctrine according which "vital forces" are active in living organisms, where the life cannot be explained solely bymechanism.a) vitalism

101. The attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. It is especially associated with the attempt to merge and analogizeseveral originally discretetraditions, especially in thetheologyandmythologyofreligion, and thus assert an underlying unity.

d) syncretism

102. The philosophical notion that encompasses both atheismandagnosticism.d) agnostic atheism –

103. The apparently paradoxical idea that a proposition or theory cannot be scientific if it does not admit the possibility of being shown false.

c) falsificationism

104. Philosophical notion according which any justificationorknowledgetheory inepistemologyholds beliefs are justified (known) when they are based onbasic beliefs(also calledfoundational beliefs).

a) foundationalism

105. In medieval philosophy the belief that properties, usually called Universals, exist independently of the things that manifest them. d)realism

106. The typologyemployed bypolitical scientiststo describemodernregimesin which thestateregulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior. e)totalitarianism

107. An epistemic theory of truthbased on the idea that the mind engages in a certain kind of activity: "verifying" aproposition. c)verificationism–

108.The various mystical initiatory religions,sectsand knowledge schools, which were most prominent in the first few centuriesCE. a)gnosticism

109. The philosophical view according which the meaning and value of humanbeliefs and behaviors have no absolute reference. b)relativism

110. Political theory which argues that one person should hold all power. e) political absolutism

111. Call the Enlightenment philosophers. a) Montesquieu, J. J. Rousseau, Voltaire

112. Call the philosopher which is belonged to structuralism. e) Ferdinand de Saussure

113. The famous I. Kant’s work. b) “The Metaphysics of Ethics”

114. What does Renaissance mean? c) rebirth or recovery.

115. The famous Kazakh philosopher . a) Shakarim.

116. In philosophy a rigorous discipline dealing with such concepts as: object, state of affairs, property, genus, species, identity, unity, plurality, number, relation, connection, causation, series, part, whole, dependence, existence, magnitude, boundary, manifold, set, class, etc. b) ontology

117. Complete the sentence. Renaissance has its origins…

e) in Italy and is associated with the rebirth of antiquity or Greco-Roman civilization

118. What school of philosophy attempted to prove God's existence? Many medieval thinkers greatly influenced future philosophers and rationalists who What century did philosophy begin? c) rationalists

119. Call the Gilson’s book. a) "Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages"

120. Call the Thomas Aquinas’ book. b) "Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas"

121. What philosophers are belonged to medieval century? c) Augustine, Ancelm

122. Complete the sentence. Middle Ages associated with:

c) the Black Death, economic, political and social crises and with “Dark Ages”

123. What great changes from the fifteenth century took place affecting public and social spheres of Europe and then the rest of the world?

a) the basis of the modern European civilization and capitalist system were founded.

124. Complete the sentence. Humanism was a form of …

e) education and culture based on the study of classics.

125. Choose wrong statement.

e) atomism the theory that all the ideas in the universe are composed of very small, destructible words.

126. Choose wrong statement.

c) philosophy of science, branch of philosophy that emerged as an autonomous discipline in the 11th cent., especially through the work of Augustus, Ancelm, Plato and I. Kant

127. Choose wrong statement.

e) monism – the metaphysical and theological view that there are million principles, essences, substances or energies.

128. Choose wrong statement. a) Chinese philosophy has its origin in France

129. Choose right statement. c) Hegel is an idealist

130. Choose right statement.

b) materialism – the philosophical view that the only thing that can truly be said to 'exist' is matter;

131. Choose right statement.

a) verificationism – an epistemic theory of truth based on the idea that the mind engages in a certain kind of activity: "verifying" a proposition.

132. The age of the Renaissance is:

a) approximately from 1350 to 1550.

133. Which of these philosophers championed deism.?

e) Voltaire

134. Who considers that early Greek philosophers do have important things to tell us about the world?

d) Heraclitus

135. Complete the sentence. The origins of the Enlightenment are closely associated with…

c) France and its philosophers such as Voltaire, Rousseau and others.

136 . Complete the sentence. Hegelianism– a philosophy developed byGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelwhich can be summed up by a favorite motto by Hegel… "

e) The rational alone is real".

137. Complete the sentence. The Enlightenment has been fostered by the …

b) remarkable discoveries of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.

138. Complete the sentence. Reason – was the word used the most frequently during the…

d) Enlightenment

139. Who made a great contribution to the Enlightenment with creation of the famous Encyclopedia (Classified Dictionary of Science, Arts and Trades)? d) Diderot,

140. Complete the sentence. The term "German Idealism" refers to a phase of intellectual life that had its origin in the … a) Enlightenment

141. Whom the conceptual framework of German Idealism was provided by? d) Immanuel Kant

142. Who considered that phenomenal world, is produced a priori by the activity of consciousness?

e) I. Kant

143. Which of philosophers considered that phenomenal world takes its rise in the absolute, self-determined will of God? c) Schelling

144. Who interpreted the process of development in a purely idealistic manner as the unconscious opposition of the Absolute to itself? a) Fichte

145. In philosophy devotion to a single godwith accepting the existence of othergods. d)henotheism

146.The Moslem holy book is:

b) Koran

147. What century of philosophy is determinated by the activities of Sören Kierkegaard, Karl Barth, Friedrich Nietzsche?

b) nineteenth century

148. Who professed himself to be “a follower of Dionysus, the god of life’s exuberance”, and declared that he hoped Dionysus would replace Jesus as the primary cultural standard for future millennia?

e) Nietzsche

149. Who considered that we are all part of a vast single will which is the entire universe, and any sense of individuality is pure illusion?

b) Schopenhauer

150. How do we call the idea that two or more moral values may be equally ultimate (true), yet in conflict?

c) value pluralism

151. Contemporary philosophy is represented by following schools:

b) existentialism, scientism, structuralism, pragmatism, positivism.

152. What philosophical theory uses culturally interconnected signs to reconstruct systems of relationships rather than studying isolated, material things in themselves? b) structuralism,

153. Call the philosophers of modern period. a) R. Barthes, M. Foucault, J. Derrida

154. Which of them is belonged to poststructuralism? a) Derrida

155. What philosophical direction refers to the ideology of science as the only legitimate truthand to a conception ofsocial progressas necessary and brought forth by technological development?d) scientism

156. Who has created the theory of deconstruction? b) Derrida

157 Throughthe work of what philosophers isphilosophy of science emerged as an autonomous discipline? e) Auguste Comte, J. S. Mill, and William Whewell

158. Call the Arabian philosophers. a) Ibn-Cina, al-Faraby, al-Gazaly

159. Who was the second teacher after Aristotle? c) al-Faraby

160. Who was the first teacher of philosophy ? a) Aristotle

161. Which of these philosophers was an idealist? e) Plato

162. Which of these philosophers was a materialist? d) Marx

163. Which of these philosophers was a subjective idealist ? a) I. Kant

164. Which of these philosophers was a objective idealist ? c) Hegel

165. Which of these Kazakh philosophers was the great scientist-historian, ethnographer, geographer, economist, traveller? d) Valihanov –

166. Who singled out three main tasks for metaphysics? a) Aristotle

167. How is a group of new ideas in literature,religion,culture, andphilosophythat advocates that there is an idealspiritualstate is named? a)transcendentalism

168. What philosophical notion claims that our experience is not about the things as they are in themselves, but about are the things as they appear to us?

c) transcendental idealism

169. What philosophical view explains that the only thing that can truly be said to 'exist' ismatter?

e) materialism

170. Call the theory according which all the objects in the universe are composed of very small, indestructibleelements? c)atomism

171. Call the philosophical notion according which any system of thought which denies the causal nexus and maintains that events succeed one another haphazardly or by chance (not in the mathematical but in the popular sense)? a) accidentalism

172. What philosophical direction denies the reality of the universe, seeing it as ultimately illusory, (the preffix "a-" in Greek meaning negation; like "un-" in English), and considers the infinite Unmanifest Absolute as real?b) acosmism

173. What philosophicalview considers thatruthvalues of certain claims — particularlytheologicalclaims regarding the existence ofGod,gods, ordeities— are unknown, inherently unknowable, or incoherent, and therefore, (some agnostics may go as far to say) irrelevant tolife?

c) agnosticism

174. The attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. It is especially associated with the attempt to merge and analogizeseveral originally discretetraditions, especially in thetheologyandmythologyofreligion, and thus assert an underlying unity.

d) syncretism

175. The philosophical notion that encompasses both atheismandagnosticism.d) agnostic atheism –

176. The apparently paradoxical idea that a proposition or theory cannot be scientific if it does not admit the possibility of being shown false. c) falsificationism

177. Philosophical notion according which any justificationorknowledgetheory inepistemologyholds beliefs are justified (known) when they are based onbasic beliefs(also calledfoundational beliefs).

a) foundationalism

178. What school of philosophy attempted to prove God's existence? Many medieval thinkers greatly influenced future philosophers and rationalists who What century did philosophy begin?

c) rationalists

179. Call the Gilson’s book. a) "Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages".

180. Which of them are belonged to Contemporary philosophy? d) Derrida, Heidegger.