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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Contemporary American Philosophers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Schopenhauer agree a priori?
(a) the will is developed through experience
(b) the individual believes he is controlled
(c) the will is easily controlled
(d) the individual believes his will is free

2. What does William James define as thinking about things in the most comprehensive way?
(a) calculus
(b) philosophy
(c) psychology
(d) scientology

3. What does Plato say early education should do?
(a) only amuse
(b) form good habits
(c) teach logistics
(d) indoctrinate

4. What are the second and third volumes of Spencer's work in 1872?
(a) The Evolution of Species
(b) The Evolution of Thought
(c) The Evolution of Science
(d) The Evolution of Life

5. What rouses the world from dogmatism?
(a) the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
(b) Francis Bacon's Essays
(c) Voltaire's Candide
(d) Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aristotle define as the entire vital principle of any being?

2. Where is a meeting held to discuss the Republic?

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

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

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

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