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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 Schopenhauer's masterpiece?
(a) The World as Will and Idea
(b) The Will of Man
(c) The Idea of the World
(d) The Fall of Rome

2. What does Dewey think about metaphysics?
(a) as an overworked theory
(b) as a denial of reality
(c) as a disguise of theology
(d) as an exercize in futility

3. To what does Spinoza change his Jewish given name?
(a) the Russian name, Igor
(b) the German name, Hans
(c) the gentile name, Benedict
(d) the English name, John

4. What does Spencer define as the subjective accompaniment of mechanically evolved nerve processes?
(a) biology
(b) education
(c) mind
(d) heart

5. Who is the author of Time and Free-will?
(a) Descartes
(b) Henri Bergson
(c) Spencer
(d) Schopenhauer

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is a contemporary of Kant's who writes so as to confound, confuse and attract disciples at the same time?

3. What affects Schopenhauer as he travels through France and Austria?

4. Eventually what does Alexander's conquests in Asia open up to the Greeks?

5. What is the distinction of his book, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music?

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