Major Trends In Historical Thought And Writing Set 2

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This set of Major Trends in Historical Thought and Writing Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Major Trends In Historical Thought And Writing Set 2

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