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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Contemporary European Philosophers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?
(a) a private banking system
(b) several errors he calls idols
(c) the model of the philosopher king
(d) public education

2. What does Nietzsche claim causes fulfillment of woman and narrowing of man?
(a) marriage
(b) children
(c) charitable deeds
(d) education

3. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?
(a) more flexible for the people
(b) more practical than theoretical
(c) less detailed, evolving slowly
(d) less idealistic and more severe

4. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?
(a) matter
(b) a place to happen
(c) a reason
(d) a source

5. To what does Spencer conclude the same principles of evolution in biology also apply?
(a) metaphysics
(b) religion
(c) all sciences
(d) philosophy

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a contemporary of Kant's who writes so as to confound, confuse and attract disciples at the same time?

2. What does Kant insist must be absolute and derived only from the inner self by direct perception and intuition?

3. What does Durant say the beginning of Schopenhauer's book contains?

4. How does Voltaire think what is wrong with most recorded history could be corrected?

5. What do Voltaire's letter criticizing France formulate in the French people?

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