Deck 2: Important Figures and Works in Western Philosophy and History

Question 1

...................has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'.

A)gottfried leibniz
B)baruch spinoza
C)rené descartes
D)jean-jacques rousseau

Answer 1

rené descartes

Question 2

............... was born in La Haye en Touraine (now Descartes), Indre-et- Loire, France.

A)galileo
B)isaac beeckman
C)descartes
D)francis bacon

Answer 2

descartes

Question 3

In his 'Discourse on the Method', ...............attempts to arrive at a fundamental set of principles that one can know as true without any doubt.

A)rené descartes
B)giambattista vico
C)isaac beeckman
D)baruch spinoza

Answer 3

rené descartes

Question 4

Giovan Battista (Giambattista) Vico was an .............. political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist.

A)italian
B)french
C)german
D)chinese

Question 5

.................. is best known for his magnum opus, the Scienza Nuova of 1725, often published in English as New Science.

A)vico
B)rené descartes
C)baruch spinoza
D)montesquieu

Question 6

The Enlightenment beginning in Britain's Glorious Revolution of ............

A)1558
B)1568
C)1658
D)1688

Question 7

The French Revolution of .......................

A)1679
B)1683
C)1779
D)1789.

Question 8

In The Spirit of Laws, .............explored the natural order that he believed underlay polities as well as economies.

A)montesquieu
B)voltaire
C)louis xiv
D)wilhelm dilthey

Question 9

................ preferred form of government was constitutional monarchy, which existed in France before Louis XIV .

A)montesquieu's
B)voltaire
C)wilhelm dilthey
D)max weber

Question 10

Although the positivist approach has been a recurrent theme in the history of Western thought, the modern sense of the approach was developed by the philosopher and founding sociologist ................. in the early 19th century.

A)Émile durkheim
B)chaucer
C)henri de saint-simon
D)auguste comte

Question 11

.................first described the epistemological perspective of positivism in 'The Course in Positive Philosophy'.

A)auguste comte
B)georg simmel
C)Émile durkheim
D)ranke

Question 12

Leopold von Ranke was a .............. positivist historian and a founder of modern source-based history.

A)french
B)italian
C)american
D)german

Question 13

............was born in Wiehe, then part of the Electorate of Saxony.

A)georges duby
B)pierre goubert
C)robert mandrou
D)ranke

Question 14

In 1814, ...............entered the University of Leipzig, where his subjects were Classics and Lutheran theology.

A)ranke
B)thucydides
C)livy
D)dionysius

Question 15

................... introduced a system for understanding the history of philosophy and the world itself often called 'dialectic": a progression in which each successive movement emerges as a solution to the contradictions inherent in the preceding movement.

A)georg wilhelm friedrich hegel
B)karl marx
C)engels
D)trotsky

Question 16

.....................usage of the English-language word 'ghost', in his 1590 The Faerie Queene, demonstrates the former, broader meaning of the English-language term.

A)edmund spenser's
B)hegel 's
C)trotsky's
D)socrates '

Question 17

Geist is a central concept in ................ The Phenomenology of Spirit .

A)hegel's
B)socrates'
C)plato's
D)aristotle's

Question 18

In ..................... the London Communist League (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) used Hegel's theory of the dialectic to back up their economic theory of communism.

A)1747
B)1768
C)1837
D)1847

Question 19

.................... published his theory of human evolution in 1859.

A)edward gibbon
B)frederick engels
C)charles darwin
D)spengler

Question 20

............... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History.

A)arnold joseph toynbee
B)edward gibbon
C)spengler
D)hegel

Question 21

The Decline of the West is the work of ...................

A)edward gibbon
B)arnold joseph toynbee
C)thomas carlyle
D)spengler

Question 22

Oswald Spengler was a …………..philosopher and mathematician.

A)german
B)french
C)italian
D)spanish

Question 23

................... most important work,The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.

A)edward gibbon's
B)laurence echard
C)william howel
D)j. c. stobart

Question 24

'Reflections on the Revolution in France'is the work of .................

A)edmund burke
B)edmund spenser
C)carlyle
D)winston churchill

Question 25

The French Revolution: A History (1837) is the work of ...............

A)winston churchill
B)edward gibbon
C)edmund burke
D)thomas carlyle