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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 Spencer call a rationalizing myth for belief that defies conception?
(a) theology
(b) cosmology
(c) geneology
(d) toxicology

2. What does Spinoza say a literal interpretation of the Bible does?
(a) gives no scientific evidence
(b) makes it easy to understand
(c) gives it broader meaning
(d) opens the Bible to errors

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

4. What does Spinoza call the highest knowledge of universal unity?
(a) understanding the influence of the stars
(b) the intellectual equivalent of the love of God
(c) the educated answers to philosophical questions
(d) the lessons from philosophers of the past

5. What does Spencer define as the subjective accompaniment of mechanically evolved nerve processes?
(a) mind
(b) biology
(c) education
(d) heart

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plato say early education should do?

2. How does Schopenhauer develop his blunt manner, realistic mind, and knowledge of the world and of men?

3. Where is Francois Arouet when he starts using the pen name, Voltaire?

4. Why does Russell visit Russia?

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

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