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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a critical analysis of knowledge that is independent of all sense experience?
(a) Kant's The Return to Common Sense
(b) Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason
(c) Kant's Letters to Philosophers
(d) Kant's Whole History of Thought

2. What are two theories from the Orient that gain acceptance in Greece?
(a) Stoicism and Epicureanism
(b) Buddhism and Hinduism
(c) Confucianism and communism
(d) Polytheism and atheism

3. What is Dewey committed to as the way to determine how man can learn to control and remake a world to accomplish goals?
(a) psychology
(b) matriculation
(c) religion
(d) philosophy

4. What is Kant's critical analysis of the moral basis of religion?
(a) The Critique of Scriptures
(b) The Critique of Science
(c) The Critique of Theology
(d) The Critique of Practical Reason

5. What is needed by a strong man who seeks intensity and experience at the cost of tragic woe?
(a) assistance
(b) pessimism
(c) optimism
(d) altruism

Short Answer Questions

1. In what work does Spencer freely express his best ideas with suggestive generalization and political philosophy?

2. What becomes the unifying element in Plato's description of justice?

3. Considering the meaning of an idea through consequences of the action to which it leads, what does James call truth?

4. What, according to Spinoza, is scripture intended to promote?

5. Where does Spencer say that Religion is central?

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