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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who suggests that men are at fault because they chose to live in houses in cities?
(a) Bacon
(b) Frederick
(c) Rousseau
(d) Voltaire

2. How does Schopenhauer say people rationalize the things they acquire?
(a) a need to keep current in a changing world
(b) reasons are found after getting what is wanted or willed
(c) only wanting things that have a built in reason
(d) reasons are manufactured to suit the climate

3. Instead of God and heaven, what does Spencer define as life?
(a) equilibration and dissolution
(b) regulation and manumission
(c) desperation and satisfaction
(d) confusion and evolution

4. Who leads the popular philosophic community of the early 19th century?
(a) Immanuel Kant
(b) Hegel
(c) Schopenhauer
(d) Rousseau

5. What does Schopenhauer see as the cause of strife and misery?
(a) religion
(b) the will
(c) wars
(d) ideas

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Schopenhauer's book receive little attention at first?

2. What does Plato say early education should do?

3. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?

4. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?

5. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?

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