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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. Whose mission is it to save religion from reason and science from skepticism?

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

3. What does Kant insist must be absolute and derived only from the inner self by direct perception and intuition?

4. Who suggests that whenever philosophy grows in a country its moral health decays?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the value Kant sees of the Bible and the churches?

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

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

4. How does Schopenhauer's philosophy sound like modern merchandising?

5. Describe the two periods of Bertram Russell's philosophical life.

6. What is the implication of Schopenhauer's claim that the world is his idea in his book, The World as Will and Idea?

7. Explain briefly how Russell became agnostic.

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

9. Briefly describe Spencer's formula of evolution.

10. How does Kant's work ironically work against his stated aim?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on philosopher-kings. Include in your essay the way proponents of philosopher-kings probably saw themselves as able to govern justly. Explain why the theory that sounds well never worked well in reality.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay on the philosopher in Durant's book that you find the most interesting. Include in your essay examples of that philosopher's work that are of particular interest to you.

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