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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Spencer label as the art of methodical self-confusion?
(a) metaphysics
(b) scientology
(c) frenology
(d) psychology

2. What new philosophy uses faith and reason to force acceptance of untried assumptions and conclusions?
(a) Scholasticism
(b) Martialism
(c) Fundamentalism
(d) Activism

3. What does Kant call knowledge that is independent of sense-experience and whose truth is certain before experience?
(a) a priori
(b) the original sense of connoting sensation
(c) evolution of concepts
(d) necessary and non-experiential

4. Who leads the popular philosophic community of the early 19th century?
(a) Hegel
(b) Schopenhauer
(c) Rousseau
(d) Immanuel Kant

5. What is the foundation of Plato's Republic?
(a) destroying individuality for an idealized state
(b) putting the state in a subservient position
(c) allowing individuality to flourish
(d) creating contributing classes of people

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is a special element of soul in the human being according to Aristotle?

5. What had Kant determined to be a Thing-in-Itself that can be conceived in thought but not experienced?

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