Philosophy Quiz

The belief that properties, usually called Universals, exist independently of the things that manifest them?

• Nominalism

• Realism

• Empiricism

• Existentialism

What metaphysical and theological view considers that there is only one principle, essence, substance, or energy in the universe?

• Dualism

• Monism

• Pluralism

• Pantheism

What philosophical movement views human existence as having a set of underlying themes and characteristics, such as anxiety, dread, freedom, awareness of death, and consciousness of existing?

• Structuralism

• Existentialism

• Materialism

• Transcendentalism

What philosophical movement views 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 to monism and dualism?

• Realism

• Pluralism

• Nihilism

• Reductionism

The philosophical position according to which the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge?

• Scientism

• Pragmatism

• Positivism

• Rationalism

What philosophical direction originated in the United States in the late 1800s and has been characterized by the insistence on consequences, utility, and practicality as vital components of meaning and truth?

• Pragmatism

• Idealism

• Phenomenology

• Logical Positivism

The devotion to a single god while accepting the existence of other gods?

• Monotheism

• Henotheism

• Polytheism

• Pantheism

The school of philosophy taught by the academics (or schoolmen) of medieval universities?

• Empiricism

• Scholasticism

• Mysticism

• Humanism

How have the many various social and political movements, and a significant body of religious and secular literature based upon the idea of paradise on earth been called?

• Utopianism

• Structuralism

• Romanticism

• Symbolism

The doctrine according to which "vital forces" are active in living organisms, where life cannot be explained solely by mechanism?

• Mechanism

• Vitalism

• Materialism

• Determinism