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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) Voltaire
(b) Rousseau
(c) Bacon
(d) Frederick

2. In what work does Spencer freely express his best ideas with suggestive generalization and political philosophy?
(a) The Evolution of Thought
(b) The Evolution of Society
(c) The Evolution of Mind
(d) The Evolution of Life

3. What does Kant call knowledge that is independent of sense-experience and whose truth is certain before experience?
(a) evolution of concepts
(b) necessary and non-experiential
(c) the original sense of connoting sensation
(d) a priori

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

5. What early 19th century philosopher is included in a group of pessimists, poets and composers considered the voices of the age?
(a) Rene Rousseau
(b) Immanuel Kant
(c) Schopenhauer
(d) Hegel

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Schopenhauer agree a priori?

2. What does Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?

3. What does Spencer comment on long before Darwin's theory of natural selection becomes popular by the end of the 1800s?

4. What student of Aristotle becomes a major historical figure?

5. What is Aristotle's foundation of logic?

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