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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 2, Of Justice and Injustice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes Hume's conception of the will?
(a) An intrinsic force.
(b) A feeling.
(c) An extrinsic force.
(d) A power.

2. What kind of people does Hume say don't understand justice?
(a) Criminals.
(b) People with mental illness.
(c) Morally primitive people.
(d) Morally corrupt people.

3. What does Hume use his razor theory to devalue?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) The imagination.
(c) Abstract concepts.
(d) Reason.

4. Which of the following is a group of contrary?
(a) Respect and contempt.
(b) Benevolence and anger.
(c) Pity and malice.
(d) Love and hate.

5. What is the title of Book Two, Part Three?
(a) Of Justice and Morality.
(b) Of Free Will and Indirect Passion.
(c) Of the Will and Direct Passions.
(d) Of Love and Hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hume say is the opposite of respect?

2. What is Hume's first tool of philosophical inquiry?

3. For what does Hume think people mistake their perceptions?

4. What do individuals develop after some social evolution?

5. What does Hume say we can direct onto others?

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