Deck 4: Authors and Works of Philosophy and Literature

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Who wrote the "Introduction to the Lyrical Ballads?

A)keats
B)shelly
C)wordsworth
D)coleridge
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"Nothing can work without the third and everything would work infinitely better without the other." Who said this?

A)kant
B)hobbes
C)hume
D)sieyes
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The Essay entitled "What is Enlightenment" is written by……………………..

A)diderot
B)locke
C)kant
D)voltaire
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Who said at human mind is like a blank slate upon which experience makes is imprint?

A)locke
B)newton
C)danton
D)rousseau
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PenseesPilosophiqus, published in 1746 was written by………………………..

A)voltaire
B)nietzsche
C)diderot
D)bacon
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"The Spirit of Laws" was written by …………………………

A)bacon
B)hume
C)voltaire
D)newton
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"All the great modern ideas have their commencement in Montesquieu" who said this?

A)bacon
B)hume
C)voltaire
D)faguet
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Letters Persaneswas a significant work by ……………………..

A)montesquieu
B)voltaire
C)diderot
D)hume
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"I salute you, I love You, I revere you" to whom Diderot pay this compliment?

A)hume
B)aristotle
C)d' alembert
D)condillac
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According to Will and Ariel Durant, who formed "the profane trio"?

A)voltaire, diderot and rousseau
B)rousseau, hume and voltaire
C)voltaire, gibbon and locke
D)diderot, d' alembert and boswell
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Who wrote Emile?

A)napoleon
B)kant
C)dryden
D)rousseau
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The Critique of Pure Reason was a seminal work by ……………….

A)rousseau
B)kant
C)voltaire
D)hume
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Who wrote the "Discourse Peliminarie" of the Encyclopaedia?

A)diderot
B)d' alembert
C)hume
D)voltaire
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"Liberty of action and thought alone is capable of producing great things and liberty requires enlightenment to preserve it from excess" Who affirms this?

A)alembert
B)locke
C)rousseau
D)hume
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Who wrote the novel La Religieuse(The Nun)?

A)locke
B)diderot
C)condillac
D)hume
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"In future people will look from afar at the universal head with mingled admiration and astonishment…"Whom did Rousseau eulogize saying this?

A)diderot
B)voltaire
C)hume
D)locke
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"We are tempted to regard him as e greatest, the most universal and the most eloquent of philosophers. Who is praised here?

A)locke
B)bacon
C)hume
D)plato
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Who is the author of The Treatise of Human Nature?

A)hume
B)rousseau
C)darwin
D)locke
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"His prophecy that workers could gain advantage through collective bargain came true" Who made this prophecy?

A)rousseau
B)voltaire
C)hume
D)gibbon
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"An Englishman like a freeman, goes to heaven by whatever route he chooses " Who made this statement?

A)voltaire
B)rousseau
C)gibbon
D)diderot
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Prof.Pangloss is a character appearing in………………..

A)voltaire's novelette candide
B)rousseau's emile
C)diderot's la religieuse
D)hume's history of england
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Who termed Primitive man as 'noble savage'?

A)rousseau
B)voltaire
C)locke
D)hume
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Who wrote "An Essay on Man"?

A)dryden
B)dr. johnson
C)wordsworth
D)pope
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Deck 4: Authors and Works of Philosophy and Literature
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Who wrote the "Introduction to the Lyrical Ballads?

A)keats
B)shelly
C)wordsworth
D)coleridge
wordsworth
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"Nothing can work without the third and everything would work infinitely better without the other." Who said this?

A)kant
B)hobbes
C)hume
D)sieyes
sieyes
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The Essay entitled "What is Enlightenment" is written by……………………..

A)diderot
B)locke
C)kant
D)voltaire
kant
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Who said at human mind is like a blank slate upon which experience makes is imprint?

A)locke
B)newton
C)danton
D)rousseau
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PenseesPilosophiqus, published in 1746 was written by………………………..

A)voltaire
B)nietzsche
C)diderot
D)bacon
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"The Spirit of Laws" was written by …………………………

A)bacon
B)hume
C)voltaire
D)newton
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"All the great modern ideas have their commencement in Montesquieu" who said this?

A)bacon
B)hume
C)voltaire
D)faguet
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Letters Persaneswas a significant work by ……………………..

A)montesquieu
B)voltaire
C)diderot
D)hume
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"I salute you, I love You, I revere you" to whom Diderot pay this compliment?

A)hume
B)aristotle
C)d' alembert
D)condillac
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According to Will and Ariel Durant, who formed "the profane trio"?

A)voltaire, diderot and rousseau
B)rousseau, hume and voltaire
C)voltaire, gibbon and locke
D)diderot, d' alembert and boswell
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Who wrote Emile?

A)napoleon
B)kant
C)dryden
D)rousseau
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The Critique of Pure Reason was a seminal work by ……………….

A)rousseau
B)kant
C)voltaire
D)hume
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Who wrote the "Discourse Peliminarie" of the Encyclopaedia?

A)diderot
B)d' alembert
C)hume
D)voltaire
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"Liberty of action and thought alone is capable of producing great things and liberty requires enlightenment to preserve it from excess" Who affirms this?

A)alembert
B)locke
C)rousseau
D)hume
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Who wrote the novel La Religieuse(The Nun)?

A)locke
B)diderot
C)condillac
D)hume
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"In future people will look from afar at the universal head with mingled admiration and astonishment…"Whom did Rousseau eulogize saying this?

A)diderot
B)voltaire
C)hume
D)locke
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"We are tempted to regard him as e greatest, the most universal and the most eloquent of philosophers. Who is praised here?

A)locke
B)bacon
C)hume
D)plato
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Who is the author of The Treatise of Human Nature?

A)hume
B)rousseau
C)darwin
D)locke
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"His prophecy that workers could gain advantage through collective bargain came true" Who made this prophecy?

A)rousseau
B)voltaire
C)hume
D)gibbon
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"An Englishman like a freeman, goes to heaven by whatever route he chooses " Who made this statement?

A)voltaire
B)rousseau
C)gibbon
D)diderot
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Prof.Pangloss is a character appearing in………………..

A)voltaire's novelette candide
B)rousseau's emile
C)diderot's la religieuse
D)hume's history of england
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Who termed Primitive man as 'noble savage'?

A)rousseau
B)voltaire
C)locke
D)hume
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Who wrote "An Essay on Man"?

A)dryden
B)dr. johnson
C)wordsworth
D)pope
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