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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do metaphysics and the nature of God fit into Aristotle's curriculum?
(a) his biology
(b) his mathematics
(c) his theology
(d) his rhetoric

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

3. What effect does Immanuel Kant's work have when it is published in 1781?
(a) defies scientific logic
(b) shocks and upsets the philosophic world
(c) saves religion from extinction
(d) does away with the need for philosophy

4. What is the result of Spencer's considering philosophy a generalization of all science?
(a) a positivist movement
(b) a definable reality
(c) a rationalization
(d) a scientific method

5. What becomes the unifying element in Plato's description of justice?
(a) the good of the children
(b) the sharing of the wealth
(c) the welfare of the group
(d) the quality of the laws

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Spinoza's second book?

2. How old is Francis Bacon when he resolves to turn philosophy from scholastic arguments to illumination and increase of human good?

3. What new philosophy uses faith and reason to force acceptance of untried assumptions and conclusions?

4. What does Kant call knowledge that is independent of sense-experience and whose truth is certain before experience?

5. To what does Schopenhauer agree a priori?

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