Major Trends In Historical Thought And Writing Set 2
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Q1 | ...................has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'.
- gottfried leibniz
- baruch spinoza
- rené descartes
- jean-jacques rousseau
Q2 | ............... was born in La Haye en Touraine (now Descartes), Indre-et- Loire, France.
- galileo
- isaac beeckman
- descartes
- francis bacon
Q3 | In his ‘Discourse on the Method’, ...............attempts to arrive at afundamental set of principles that one can know as true without any doubt.
- rené descartes
- giambattista vico
- isaac beeckman
- baruch spinoza
Q4 | Giovan Battista (Giambattista) Vico was an .............. politicalphilosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist.
- italian
- french
- german
- chinese
Q5 | .................. is best known for his magnum opus, the Scienza Nuova of1725, often published in English as New Science.
- vico
- rené descartes
- baruch spinoza
- montesquieu
Q6 | The Enlightenment beginning in Britain's Glorious Revolution of ............
- 1558
- 1568
- 1658
- 1688
Q7 | The French Revolution of .......................
- 1679
- 1683
- 1779
- 1789.
Q8 | In The Spirit of Laws, .............explored the natural order that hebelieved underlay polities as well as economies.
- montesquieu
- voltaire
- louis xiv
- wilhelm dilthey
Q9 | ................ preferred form of government was constitutional monarchy, which existed in France before Louis XIV .
- montesquieu’s
- voltaire
- wilhelm dilthey
- max weber
Q10 | Although the positivist approach has been a recurrent theme in thehistory of Western thought, the modern sense of the approach was developed by the philosopher and founding sociologist ................. in the early 19th century.
- Émile durkheim
- chaucer
- henri de saint-simon
- auguste comte
Q11 | .................first described the epistemological perspective of positivismin ‘The Course in Positive Philosophy’.
- auguste comte
- georg simmel
- Émile durkheim
- ranke
Q12 | Leopold von Ranke was a .............. positivist historian and a founder ofmodern source-based history.
- french
- italian
- american
- german
Q13 | ............was born in Wiehe, then part of the Electorate of Saxony.
- georges duby
- pierre goubert
- robert mandrou
- ranke
Q14 | In 1814, ...............entered the University of Leipzig, where his subjectswere Classics and Lutheran theology.
- ranke
- thucydides
- livy
- dionysius
Q15 | ................... introduced a system for understanding the history ofphilosophy 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.
- georg wilhelm friedrich hegel
- karl marx
- engels
- trotsky
Q16 | .....................usage of the English-language word 'ghost', in his1590 The Faerie Queene, demonstrates the former, broader meaning of the English-language term.
- edmund spenser's
- hegel ‘s
- trotsky’s
- socrates ‘
Q17 | Geist is a central concept in ................ The Phenomenology of Spirit .
- hegel's
- socrates’
- plato’s
- aristotle’s
Q18 | 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.
- 1747
- 1768
- 1837
- 1847
Q19 | .................... published his theory of human evolution in 1859.
- edward gibbon
- frederick engels
- charles darwin
- spengler
Q20 | ............... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History.
- arnold joseph toynbee
- edward gibbon
- spengler
- hegel
Q21 | The Decline of the West is the work of ...................
- edward gibbon
- arnold joseph toynbee
- thomas carlyle
- spengler
Q22 | Oswald Spengler was a …………..philosopher and mathematician.
- german
- french
- italian
- spanish
Q23 | ................... most important work,The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
- edward gibbon’s
- laurence echard
- william howel
- j. c. stobart
Q24 | ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’is the work of .................
- edmund burke
- edmund spenser
- carlyle
- winston churchill
Q25 | The French Revolution: A History (1837) is the work of ...............
- winston churchill
- edward gibbon
- edmund burke
- thomas carlyle