The Story of Philosophy Quiz

Will Durant

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does Santayana consider to be an unstable combination of Greek theology and Jewish morality? (from Contemporary American Philosophers)

Christianity

European philosophy

communism

Mormonism

2.

How does Schopenhauer say people rationalize the things they acquire? (from Schopenhauer)

reasons are found after getting what is wanted or willed

a need to keep current in a changing world

only wanting things that have a built in reason

reasons are manufactured to suit the climate

3.

Instead of God and heaven, what does Spencer define as life? (from Herbert Spencer)

confusion and evolution

equilibration and dissolution

desperation and satisfaction

regulation and manumission

4.

How does Kant classify an action done in accord with one's inner sense of duty? (from Immanuel Kant and German Idealism)

as good

as holy

as isolated

as habitual

5.

What is a critical analysis of knowledge that is independent of all sense experience? (from Immanuel Kant and German Idealism)

Kant's Whole History of Thought

Kant's The Return to Common Sense

Kant's Letters to Philosophers

Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason

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