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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Natural Sciences.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?
(a) The idea of inevitable progress.
(b) The idea mystical states.
(c) The idea of transcendent experiences.
(d) The idea of natural rights.
2. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?
(a) In social sciences and humanities.
(b) In the history of knowledge.
(c) In religion.
(d) In epistemology.
3. What religion was Wilson born into?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Southern Baptism.
(d) Judaism.
4. What is consilience?
(a) An underlying pattern that tends toward unification.
(b) A historical basis for unifying fields of study.
(c) A proposal for reorganizing departments of knowledge.
(d) An agreed approach to different subjects.
5. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?
(a) That it can resolve issues the sciences cannot answer.
(b) That scientific solutions are incomplete without the humanities.
(c) That it can reduce the need for science.
(d) That it can bring more peace to political conflicts.
Short Answer Questions
1. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?
2. That scientific tools does Wilson credit with driving the age of scientific expansion?
3. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?
4. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?
5. What does Wilson say we discover when we link social sciences, biology, ethics and environmental policy?
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