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

2. What is needed by a strong man who seeks intensity and experience at the cost of tragic woe?

3. What does Spencer call a rationalizing myth for belief that defies conception?

4. What purpose of Buddhism does Schopenhauer say is superior to Christianity?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Kant respond after reading Berkeley, Hume, and Rousseau?

3. How does Nietzsche show his attitude toward religion?

4. In his The Critique of Pure Reason how does Kant say knowledge comes?

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. How does Schopenhauer illustrate, along with Aristotle, that the power of will drives plants, animals and man?

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

9. Describe the competition between Schopenhauer and Hegel.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on truth. In your essay comment on the difficulty of determining what truth is. Give your opinion on approaching the study of truth as a search for its origins or as a practical application for the future.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on the hilarious atheism of Nietzsche using lines from the Song of Zarathustra. In your essay point out specific lines from the Song and why they strike you as being humorous.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on Aristotle's Golden Mean. Include how it is not the same as a mathematical mean. Give an Aristotelian example of the Golden Mean and one that you observe from modern life.

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