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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Schopenhauer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aristotle devise to integrate the particular with the universal?
(a) sophistry
(b) the syllogism
(c) the Aristotlean Method
(d) metaphysical examination

2. What does Spinoza's Ethic do with Buddhism and Christianity, the philosophy of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, and the democracy of the Greeks?
(a) throws them out in favor of his own ideas
(b) integrates and reconciles all three ethical systems
(c) keeps them separate for different ethnic groups
(d) takes only bits and pieces from each

3. In what work does Voltaire discuss the morals and spirit of the nations from Charlemagne to Louis XIII?
(a) The Romances
(b) The Short Novels
(c) The History of Morals
(d) The Essay on Morals

4. What does Bacon call for elimination in his philosophy?
(a) the model of the philosopher king
(b) several errors he calls idols
(c) public education
(d) a private banking system

5. What biological notion does Aristotle reject?
(a) vegetarianism
(b) survival of the fittest
(c) extinction of species
(d) evolution of species

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Voltaire's Essay on Morals become?

3. Who in Voltaire's life is the young wife of a French Marquis who is away with his regiment?

4. What does Aristotle say is the need of Motion?

5. What is lacking in Aristotle's philosophy that is so evident in Plato's?

(see the answer key)

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