The Story of Philosophy Quiz Questions | Quiz: Spinoza

Quiz: Spinoza

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

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. What does Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?
a) throws them out in favor of his own ideas
b) integrates and reconciles all three ethical systems
c) takes only bits and pieces from each
d) keeps them separate for different ethnic groups

2. What does Spinoza say the language of the Bible is?
a) mystical
b) metaphorical
c) magnatudinal
d) metaphysical

3. How does Spinoza explain references to God's halting the natural function of nature on several occasions in the Bible?
a) those are allegories of God's power
b) God and the processes of nature are one
c) the meaning is not clear in the...
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