The Story of Philosophy Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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The Story of Philosophy Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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

2. How does Kant classify an action done in accord with one's inner sense of duty?
(a) as habitual
(b) as isolated
(c) as holy
(d) as good

3. What rouses the world from dogmatism?
(a) the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
(b) Francis Bacon's Essays
(c) Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
(d) Voltaire's Candide

4. What is Kant's critical analysis of the moral basis of religion?
(a) The Critique of Scriptures
(b) The Critique of Practical Reason
(c) The Critique of Science
(d) The Critique of Theology

5. Who is a contemporary of Kant's who writes so as to confound, confuse and attract disciples at the same time?
(a) Russell
(b) Rousseau
(c) Voltaire
(d) Hegel

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the dominant philosophical thinker of the 19th Century?

2. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?

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

4. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?

5. How is Nietzsche found after he suffers a fit of apoplexy?

(see the answer key)

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