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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 had Kant determined to be a Thing-in-Itself that can be conceived in thought but not experienced?
(a) ultimate reality
(b) history
(c) eventuality
(d) conceptuality

2. What does Spencer label as the art of methodical self-confusion?
(a) frenology
(b) metaphysics
(c) psychology
(d) scientology

3. What does Plato say is a science and art one must live and prepare for?
(a) teaching the young
(b) statesmanship
(c) oratory
(d) military leadership

4. What philosophy does Bacon accept in his Essays?
(a) an Epicurean ethic
(b) a Stoic position
(c) a tendency toward Romanticism
(d) a Platonic ideal

5. When is Plato born?
(a) in the fourth century B.C.
(b) in the first century B. C.
(c) Ca 400 B. C.
(d) in the second century B. C.

Short Answer Questions

1. By Spencer's time, what is the third stage of philosophical thought?

2. What does Bergson uphold that is distinct from the organism, but is limited by its characteristics?

3. What question does Plato raise to lead into a discussion of Utopia?

4. What has a materialistic bias from mathematics and mechanics through the developing sciences?

5. Where does Schopenhauer go to write a doctoral dissertation in philosophy?

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