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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 does Spinoza call the highest knowledge of universal unity?
(a) the intellectual equivalent of the love of God
(b) the lessons from philosophers of the past
(c) understanding the influence of the stars
(d) the educated answers to philosophical questions

2. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?
(a) a book banned by every nations
(b) the basis of modern historical science
(c) a template for how to do research
(d) the last of his great works

3. What is lacking in Aristotle's philosophy that is so evident in Plato's?
(a) a good use of rhetoric
(b) a means of testing
(c) a clear objective
(d) a reforming zeal

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

5. What becomes the Gospel on which Nietzsche's other works comment?
(a) Wagner
(b) Schopenhauer
(c) Zarathustra
(d) himself

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schopenhauer suggest is a deception of nature that disillusions?

2. Who is the dominant philosophical thinker of the 19th Century?

3. Although science and philosophy exists in Greece before their times, who were the teachers who greatly advanced the fields?

4. What had Kant determined to be a Thing-in-Itself that can be conceived in thought but not experienced?

5. How does Kant classify an action done in accord with one's inner sense of duty?

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