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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What purpose of Buddhism does Schopenhauer say is superior to Christianity?
(a) spiritual revelation
(b) destruction of the will
(c) hours of meditation
(d) ease of joining the religion

2. What is lacking in Aristotle's philosophy that is so evident in Plato's?
(a) a means of testing
(b) a clear objective
(c) a good use of rhetoric
(d) a reforming zeal

3. Who are Francis Bacon's relative that cause it to be said that his political career began at his birth in 1561?
(a) well-placed English aristocrats
(b) aristocrats from Spain and the Netherlands
(c) pretenders to the English throne
(d) leaders of the Church of England

4. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?
(a) devotion rather than to reason
(b) literature rather than science
(c) reason over superstition
(d) clarity rather than confusion

5. What does Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?
(a) takes only bits and pieces from each
(b) keeps them separate for different ethnic groups
(c) throws them out in favor of his own ideas
(d) integrates and reconciles all three ethical systems

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Spinoza say the language of the Bible is?

2. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?

3. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?

4. What does Schopenhauer say is the first law of sexual attraction?

5. What event makes the rival schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism split philosophically?

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