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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Friedrich Nietzsche.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kant call knowledge that is independent of sense-experience and whose truth is certain before experience?
(a) the original sense of connoting sensation
(b) a priori
(c) evolution of concepts
(d) necessary and non-experiential

2. What does Nietzsche claim the English Darwinians, French positivists and German socialists reject ?
(a) reliance on science for answers
(b) Christian theology but retain its morality
(c) any kind of taught morality
(d) all who have other opinions

3. Who eventually dominates Greek philosophy and government?
(a) the fierce Spartans
(b) the Macedonians Aristotle and Alexander
(c) the libertarians
(d) the invading Persians

4. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?
(a) who has the most power
(b) the futility of the aristocratic form of government
(c) how to discipline the masses
(d) what men do rather than what they should do

5. What is the irony of Kant's quiet Prussian life relative to Voltaire's Parisian life?
(a) both of them lack credibility in their day
(b) both of them become quite wealthy
(c) both of them live in exile
(d) both of them get into trouble with their governments

Short Answer Questions

1. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?

2. How far is Alexander able to spread Greek culture?

3. What bold denial of Kant's is based on reduction of religion to moral faith and hope?

4. By the thirteenth century A. D., how does the Church unite the European continent?

5. How does Kant classify an action done in accord with one's inner sense of duty?

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