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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does William James describe as a mirror of external and physical reality?
(a) philosophy
(b) psychology
(c) science
(d) thought

2. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?
(a) well-placed English aristocrats
(b) aristocrats from Spain and the Netherlands
(c) leaders of the Church of England
(d) pretenders to the English throne

3. What new philosophy uses faith and reason to force acceptance of untried assumptions and conclusions?
(a) Fundamentalism
(b) Scholasticism
(c) Activism
(d) Martialism

4. What, according to Schopenhauer, is the only way to convince someone?
(a) applying force
(b) applying philosophy
(c) appealing to reason
(d) appealing to self-interest

5. What becomes the unifying element in Plato's description of justice?
(a) the sharing of the wealth
(b) the welfare of the group
(c) the good of the children
(d) the quality of the laws

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the dominant philosophical thinker of the 19th Century?

2. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?

3. How does Spinoza explain references to God's halting the natural function of nature on several occasions in the Bible?

4. With what famous composer does does Nietzsche study the piano?

5. Who leads the popular philosophic community of the early 19th century?

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