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Which of the following philosophers ideas were most similar to Buddha's?
a) Mill's Complex Utilitarianism
b) Nietzsche's Nihilism
c) Schopenhauer’s Pessimism
d) Kant's Formalism

Which of the following IS TRUE of Mill's Altruism?
a) Through an understanding of the zeitgeist
b) Hedonic calculus can tell us how to reform society
c) Personal self-interest is the way to reform
d) Education is the best hope for reform

Thomas Aquinas used scholasticism to combine Aristotle's ideas and Church dogma. What is this an example of?
a) The Five Great Relationships
b) The Hegelian Dialect
c) The Socratic Method
d) Kierkegaard's Massing of Society

Which of the following best describes Nietzsche's Nihilism?
a) The universe lacks objective meaning
b) The universe lacks subjective meaning
c) One must become healthy minded to survive
d) Life is a will to live

Which of the following did Marx predict would be the 5th and final epoch of history?
a) Egoism
b) Altruism
c) Socialism/ Communism
d) Capitalism

Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Kierkegaard's philosophy?
a) Individualism was lost to the herd mentality
b) The truth is subjective
c) The religious stage requires taking a leap of faith
d) Christianity and the Church lead to an authentic life

Being religious is preferable to not being religious because you get to experience more of life. This is an example of which of the following?
a) The pragmatic method
b) A leap of faith
c) The will to power
d) The Coherence Theory of Truth

Which of the following best describes noumenal reality?
a) The world we can only speculate about
b) The world we experience
c) The absolute spirit
d) The world of being

When that tree fell in the woods, and nobody was around, it didn't make a sound. This is an example of:
a) Coherence Theory of Truth
b) a priori idea
c) Empirical Criterion of Meaning
d) a posteriori idea

Which of the following does Aquinas' first proof, or way, have to do with?
a) Design
b) Gradation
c) Cause
d) Motion

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