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A) 1420 B) 1666 C) 1588 D) 1739
A) Republic B) Utopia C) Leviathan D) The Prince
A) Italy B) Germany C) England D) France
A) Strong Central Authority B) Individual Autonomy C) Anarchism D) Religious Institutions
A) Life B) Justice C) Happiness D) Liberty
A) Social Contract B) Invisible Hand C) Noble Savage D) Categorical Imperative
A) American Revolution B) English Civil War C) French Revolution D) Glorious Revolution
A) Aristotle B) Rene Descartes C) Immanuel Kant D) John Locke
A) 1688 B) 1715 C) 1776 D) 1651
A) Oxford B) London C) Cambridge D) Westport
A) University of Cambridge B) Magdalen Hall C) Hertford College D) University of Oxford
A) The English Civil War B) The execution of Charles I C) The coming invasion of the Spanish Armada D) The Great Fire of London
A) Ben Jonson B) Francis Bacon C) William Cavendish, Baron of Hardwick D) Charles Cavendish
A) He was their landlord. B) He was their personal physician. C) He served as a tutor and secretary to members of the family. D) He was their financial advisor.
A) Plato's Republic B) Homer's Iliad C) Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War D) Euripides' Medea
A) John Wilkinson B) Galileo Galilei C) Francis Bacon D) Fulgenzio Micanzio
A) Scholastic learning B) Philosophy C) Classical literature D) Mathematics
A) Charles I B) Francis Bacon C) William Cavendish, later 1st Duke of Newcastle D) John Wilkinson
A) Herodotus B) Euripides C) Plato D) Thucydides
A) He was his patron. B) He was his mentor. C) He was his student. D) He worked as his amanuensis, translating several of his Essays into Latin.
A) The death of William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, from the plague B) The start of the English Civil War C) His dismissal by Ben Jonson D) The publication of Leviathan
A) Vicar of both Charlton and Westport B) Glove manufacturer C) University professor D) Scholar
A) London B) Rome C) Paris D) Florence
A) True revelation is always superior to human reason B) Revelation is irrelevant to human experience C) Human reason should be ignored in favor of revelation D) True revelation can never disagree with human reason
A) Mathematical instructor B) Literary tutor C) Military strategist D) Political advisor
A) Moral argument B) Teleological argument C) Ontological argument D) Cosmological argument
A) Paris B) Bradford C) London D) Oxford
A) Marin Mersenne B) René Descartes C) William Cavendish D) Sir Gervase Clifton
A) Cees Leijenhorst B) Frithiof Brandt C) K. C. Brown D) Douglas M. Jesseph
A) 'De mundo Examined' B) 'Problematica Physica' C) 'Rosetum Geometricum' D) 'Principia et Problemata'
A) Isaac Newton B) Paolo Sarpi C) John Wallis D) Fulgenzio Micanzio
A) 'Principia et Problemata' B) 'De mundo Examined' C) 'Problematica Physica' D) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
A) 1668 B) 1651 C) 1646 D) 1675
A) Meditations on First Philosophy B) Discourse on Method C) Rules for the Direction of the Mind D) Principles of Philosophy
A) 15 B) 20 C) 10 D) 5
A) Leviathan B) De Cive C) The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic D) Tractatus opticus
A) Groups centered around William Cavendish B) Groups held together by Marin Mersenne C) Groups organized by Descartes D) Groups led by Galileo Galilei
A) Molesworth editions B) Clarendon Edition C) Traduction des œuvres latines de Hobbes D) New critical editions of Hobbes's works
A) De Cive B) Leviathan C) Tractatus opticus D) The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
A) Problematica Physica B) Principia et Problemata Aliquot Geometrica Antè Desperata, Nunc breviter Explicata & Demonstrata C) Dialogus physicus, sive De natura aeris D) Lux Mathematica. Excussa Collisionibus Johannis Wallisii
A) Thomae Hobbessii Malmesburiensis Vita. Authore seipso B) A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England C) Examinatio et emendatio mathematicae hodiernae qualis explicatur in libris Johannis Wallisii D) Decameron Physiologicum
A) "To be or not to be" B) "Life is but a dream" C) "The end of all things" D) "A great leap in the dark"
A) 1666 B) 1651 C) 1637 D) 1642
A) An artistic expression B) A poetic narrative C) A quasi-geometrical system D) A religious doctrine
A) 1637 B) 1641 C) 1651 D) 1644
A) James I B) Henry VIII C) Charles I D) Edward VI
A) 1690 B) 1667 C) 1679 D) 1685
A) K. C. Brown B) Cees Leijenhorst C) Frithiof Brandt D) Douglas M. Jesseph
A) 1650 B) 1675 C) 1666 D) 1648
A) Bradford University Press B) Vrin C) Abaris Books D) Clarendon Press
A) There are no incorporeal substances B) They are divine C) They exist only in the mind D) They are illusions
A) 1620 B) 1651 C) 1642 D) 1637
A) 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses' B) 'Behemoth, or The Long Parliament' C) 'Seven Philosophical Problems' D) 'An Historical Narration concerning Heresie, And the Punishment thereof'
A) A treatise on geometry B) A political manifesto C) An autobiography D) A translation of the Odyssey
A) 'Problematica Physica' B) 'Principia et Problemata' C) 'Rosetum Geometricum' D) 'De mundo Examined'
A) Determinism. B) Existentialism. C) Utilitarianism. D) Free will.
A) That they exist B) That they are corporeal C) That they have dimensions D) That they are incorporeal
A) K. C. Brown B) Cees Leijenhorst C) Douglas M. Jesseph D) Frithiof Brandt
A) 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses' B) 'Seven Philosophical Problems' C) 'An Historical Narration concerning Heresie, And the Punishment thereof' D) 'Historia Ecclesiastica Carmine Elegiaco Concinnata' |