The Story of Philosophy Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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The Story of Philosophy Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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

2. Whose mission is it to save religion from reason and science from skepticism?
(a) Rousseau's
(b) Berkeley's
(c) Kant's
(d) Voltaire's

3. What does the Roman empire eventually become?
(a) the European Union
(b) the world's trade union
(c) the Roman Papacy
(d) the Roman Federation

4. Why does Nietzsche claim that morality and theology must be reconstructed?
(a) to give it more importance
(b) to fit the growth of evolutionary theory
(c) to make it more appealing
(d) to upgrade the language

5. What is needed by a strong man who seeks intensity and experience at the cost of tragic woe?
(a) optimism
(b) altruism
(c) pessimism
(d) assistance

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the distinction of his book, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music?

2. Like Aristotle, what does Bacon see needs to be removed to avoid revolution?

3. What does Nietzsche claim causes fulfillment of woman and narrowing of man?

4. What philosopher and statesman does Francis Bacon aspire to be like?

5. What does Kant say divides man into sects that does not join them together?

(see the answer key)

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