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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what work does Voltaire discuss the morals and spirit of the nations from Charlemagne to Louis XIII?
(a) The History of Morals
(b) The Short Novels
(c) The Essay on Morals
(d) The Romances

2. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?
(a) a power to dream
(b) a power of reason and thought
(c) a power to dominate
(d) a power of understanding metaphysics

3. Reducing everything through the Socratic Method, what do Socrates and Cephalus agree to discuss?
(a) the meaning of war
(b) the meaning of happiness
(c) the meaning of justice
(d) the meaning of philosophy

4. When does Plato return to Athens and begin to write?
(a) at the age of twenty-eight when Socrates dies
(b) at the age of fifty in 397 B. C.
(c) at the age of thirty while touring the middle east
(d) at the age of forty in 387 B.C.

5. What does Plato say early education should do?
(a) only amuse
(b) form good habits
(c) teach logistics
(d) indoctrinate

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 biological notion does Aristotle reject?

3. What does Bertram Russell's Mysticism and Logic refute?

4. What does Spencer define as the subjective accompaniment of mechanically evolved nerve processes?

5. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?

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