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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Friedrich Nietzsche.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?
(a) a source
(b) a reason
(c) a place to happen
(d) matter

2. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?
(a) reason over superstition
(b) clarity rather than confusion
(c) devotion rather than to reason
(d) literature rather than science

3. Who eventually dominates Greek philosophy and government?
(a) the Macedonians Aristotle and Alexander
(b) the invading Persians
(c) the libertarians
(d) the fierce Spartans

4. What does Spencer comment on long before Darwin's theory of natural selection becomes popular by the end of the 1800s?
(a) transmigration
(b) circumnavigation
(c) natural science
(d) evolution

5. What does Aristotle establish in Athens?
(a) a system of exchange
(b) a scientific museum
(c) a school of oratory
(d) a political party

Short Answer Questions

1. What work of Spencer's theorizes that all ultimate religious ideas eventually become logically inconceivable?

2. Instead of God and heaven, what does Spencer define as life?

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

4. What is lacking in Aristotle's philosophy that is so evident in Plato's?

5. What effect does Immanuel Kant's work have when it is published in 1781?

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