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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Bergson to become a famous popular philosopher?

2. What does Spencer affirm that needs centralization, government power, apathy and individual subordination?

3. What is Kant's critical analysis of the moral basis of religion?

4. What does Nietzsche claim the English Darwinians, French positivists and German socialists reject ?

5. What does Schopenhauer see as the cause of strife and misery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Nietzsche's thought on democracy and Christianity?

2. Define the contrast between Bergson and Croce.

3. Analyzing religious ideas in First Principles, what does Spencer conclude?

4. How does Spencer see his fame?

5. Briefly discuss Bergson's idea of creative evolution.

6. How is Immanuel Kant's work burst on the European consciousness?

7. How does Nietzsche see Christian theology in his day?

8. Describe Kant's sequential order of knowledge leading up to an organized life.

9. What select group is Schopenhauer included in during the first half of the 19th century?

10. Describe Schopenhauer's views of youth and old age.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on Spinoza's idea that one thing may be good, bad, or indifferent all at the same time which he illustrates by music. In your essay identify and explain how something like modern electronics may be good, bad, or indifferent all at the same time.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on education. Begin with Socrates, Plato's Academy, and Aristotle's Lyceum. Analyze why these were so successful because the select students were there from self-motivation. Include Dewey's vocational education idea. Then give your opinion of education today.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on religious faith, agnosticism, and atheism. In your essay define each and give examples of philosophers who fit each category. Express your opinion about where you stand on the issue.

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