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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Significantly, who gets ignored in Bacon's utopia?
(a) Copernicus and other scientists
(b) Plato and Socrates
(c) Hobbes, Locke, and Bentham
(d) proponents of the New Atlantis

2. Who is a contemporary of Kant's who writes so as to confound, confuse and attract disciples at the same time?
(a) Russell
(b) Hegel
(c) Voltaire
(d) Rousseau

3. What is the first of four books written by Spinoza?
(a) The Philosophy of the Ages
(b) The Fall of the Roman Empire
(c) The History of War
(d) The Treatise on Religion and the State

4. What is a critical analysis of knowledge that is independent of all sense experience?
(a) Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason
(b) Kant's The Return to Common Sense
(c) Kant's Letters to Philosophers
(d) Kant's Whole History of Thought

5. What does Schopenhauer see as the cause of strife and misery?
(a) ideas
(b) wars
(c) the will
(d) religion

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Spinoza say the language of the Bible is?

2. What purpose of Buddhism does Schopenhauer say is superior to Christianity?

3. What does Kant insist must be absolute and derived only from the inner self by direct perception and intuition?

4. How does Schopenhauer develop his blunt manner, realistic mind, and knowledge of the world and of men?

5. What does Spencer label as the art of methodical self-confusion?

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