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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 Kant insist must be absolute and derived only from the inner self by direct perception and intuition?
(a) the theological basis for religion
(b) the miraculous basis for religion
(c) the scientific basis for religion
(d) the moral basis of religion

2. How is Plato's early life best described?
(a) a playboy and a religious fanatic
(b) a comfortable athletic youth and a successful soldier
(c) a life of poverty and destitution
(d) an idle life and a failure as a soldier

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

4. Why does Schopenhauer's book receive little attention at first?
(a) Europe is too poor and exhausted to read about its own condition
(b) people have grown tired of reading philosophies
(c) nobody recognizes the name of Schopenhauer
(d) the publisher prints only a few copies

5. What is the distinction of his book, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music?
(a) it defines classic tragedy
(b) it sold out in three weeks
(c) it is translated into 30 languages
(d) it is his first and only

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does Schopenhauer agree a priori?

3. What is Schopenhauer's masterpiece?

4. What does William James define as thinking about things in the most comprehensive way?

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

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