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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Contemporary American Philosophers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method do all the fields of study--science, discipline, art and music--use in common?
(a) repetition of basics
(b) the art of logic
(c) rote memorization
(d) questions and answers

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

3. In what way is Bacon's reconstruction thought superior to that of Aristotle?
(a) more practical than theoretical
(b) more flexible for the people
(c) less idealistic and more severe
(d) less detailed, evolving slowly

4. What is the distinction of his book, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music?
(a) it defines classic tragedy
(b) it sold out in three weeks
(c) it is translated into 30 languages
(d) it is his first and only

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Democritus claim that Aristotle disagrees with?

2. What does Spencer define as the subjective accompaniment of mechanically evolved nerve processes?

3. What does Durant say the beginning of Schopenhauer's book contains?

4. What new philosophy uses faith and reason to force acceptance of untried assumptions and conclusions?

5. How does every society and government ruins itself?

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