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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 early 19th century philosopher is included in a group of pessimists, poets and composers considered the voices of the age?
(a) Rene Rousseau
(b) Schopenhauer
(c) Hegel
(d) Immanuel Kant

2. What has a materialistic bias from mathematics and mechanics through the developing sciences?
(a) philosophical speculation
(b) capitalism
(c) research and development
(d) modernism

3. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?
(a) the art of logic
(b) questions and answers
(c) rote memorization
(d) repetition of basics

4. What contemporary philosophers does Durant discuss in this chapter?
(a) Descarte and Molier
(b) Bergson, Croce and Bertrand Russell
(c) Edgar Cayce and Roger Miller
(d) Churchill and Washington Irving

5. What are the two contrary valuations of human behavior, according to Nietzsche?
(a) the moralist and the scientist
(b) the master and the herd
(c) the high and the mighty
(d) the good and the bad

Short Answer Questions

1. To what end does Socrates develop his Socratic Method?

2. Without what does Kant say sensations cannot become perceptions?

3. What does Kant say divides man into sects that does not join them together?

4. What does Bacon suggest should be observed similar to Machiavellian philosophy?

5. What does Bergson see as active forces in evolution?

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