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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Spinoza do to support himself?
(a) gives violin lessons
(b) writes for a newspaper
(c) grinds optical lenses
(d) tutors students

2. What purpose of Buddhism does Schopenhauer say is superior to Christianity?
(a) ease of joining the religion
(b) spiritual revelation
(c) destruction of the will
(d) hours of meditation

3. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?
(a) the last of his great works
(b) a book banned by every nations
(c) a template for how to do research
(d) the basis of modern historical science

4. What method does Kant use to remind theology that substance, cause, and necessity are finite categories?
(a) Aristotle's logic
(b) transcendental dialectic
(c) animal instinct
(d) the Socratic Method

5. What does Plato say early education should do?
(a) teach logistics
(b) indoctrinate
(c) only amuse
(d) form good habits

Short Answer Questions

1. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?

2. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?

3. What does Schopenhauer suggest is a deception of nature that disillusions?

4. When is Plato born?

5. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?

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