Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?
(a) They have a mutually supportive role.
(b) They misinterpret each other's work.
(c) They obfuscate each other's work.
(d) They are not related.

2. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?
(a) He says that consilience can only be seen through a philosophical lens.
(b) He says that consilience is a sublime concept that can never be presented in fact.
(c) He says it can only be known through language.
(d) He says it is implicit.

3. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between ecology and ethics?
(a) By valuing previously unvalued phenomena, ecology develops its own unique ethics.
(b) Without tangible laws of ethics, ecology is always an approximate science, ethically.
(c) Without analysis in ecology, there is little basis for making ethical claims.
(d) By studying how people assign values, we find that ecology has always had an ethical scale of value.

4. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?
(a) The idea mystical states.
(b) The idea of transcendent experiences.
(c) The idea of natural rights.
(d) The idea of inevitable progress.

5. Who influenced Wilson's idea of unified learning?
(a) Linnaeus.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Van Buren.
(d) Lamarck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What field does Wilson say philosophers and scientists should collaborate in?

2. What did the idea of intellectual unity foster in the Enlightenment?

3. What is consilience?

4. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?

5. What is Wilson ultimately interested in producing with consilience?

(see the answer key)

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