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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Contemporary European Philosophers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose mission is it to save religion from reason and science from skepticism?
(a) Kant's
(b) Voltaire's
(c) Berkeley's
(d) Rousseau's

2. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?
(a) athletics and mathematics
(b) biology and natural sciences
(c) the socratic Method
(d) physical and mental training

3. What are the two contrary valuations of human behavior, according to Nietzsche?
(a) the master and the herd
(b) the high and the mighty
(c) the good and the bad
(d) the moralist and the scientist

4. How does every society and government ruins itself?
(a) by being too constrictive
(b) by growing tired
(c) by letting down their guard
(d) by enabling excess in principle

5. What philosophy does Bacon accept in his Essays?
(a) an Epicurean ethic
(b) a tendency toward Romanticism
(c) a Platonic ideal
(d) a Stoic position

Short Answer Questions

1. By Spencer's time, what is the third stage of philosophical thought?

2. What has a materialistic bias from mathematics and mechanics through the developing sciences?

3. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?

4. Who is a contemporary of Kant's who writes so as to confound, confuse and attract disciples at the same time?

5. What had Kant determined to be a Thing-in-Itself that can be conceived in thought but not experienced?

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