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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?
(a) It describes the humanities in scientific terms.
(b) It provides a Rosetta Stone for the sciences.
(c) It allows facts and theories to be tested.
(d) It translates science into humanities and vice versa.

2. What methods did Descartes use in his work?
(a) Hypothesis and experimentation.
(b) Experiential learning and induction.
(c) Deduction and analysis.
(d) Induction and synthesis.

3. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?
(a) Materialism.
(b) Transcendentalism.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Idealism.

4. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between ecology and ethics?
(a) Without tangible laws of ethics, ecology is always an approximate science, ethically.
(b) By studying how people assign values, we find that ecology has always had an ethical scale of value.
(c) By valuing previously unvalued phenomena, ecology develops its own unique ethics.
(d) Without analysis in ecology, there is little basis for making ethical claims.

5. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?
(a) The idea mystical states.
(b) The idea of inevitable progress.
(c) The idea of transcendent experiences.
(d) The idea of natural rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson say was the consequence of Robespierre's employment of the concept of the general will?

2. What is consilience?

3. What force did John Locke believe in, in Wilson's account?

4. How did Wilson react against the religion he inherited?

5. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?

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