Major Trends In Historical Thought And Writing Set 2

Q1 | ...................has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'.

Q2 | ............... was born in La Haye en Touraine (now Descartes), Indre-et- Loire, France.

Q3 | In his ‘Discourse on the Method’, ...............attempts to arrive at afundamental set of principles that one can know as true without any doubt.

Q4 | Giovan Battista (Giambattista) Vico was an .............. politicalphilosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist.

Q5 | .................. is best known for his magnum opus, the Scienza Nuova of1725, often published in English as New Science.

Q6 | The Enlightenment beginning in Britain's Glorious Revolution of ............

Q7 | The French Revolution of .......................

Q8 | In The Spirit of Laws, .............explored the natural order that hebelieved underlay polities as well as economies.

Q9 | ................ preferred form of government was constitutional monarchy, which existed in France before Louis XIV .

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.

Q11 | .................first described the epistemological perspective of positivismin ‘The Course in Positive Philosophy’.

Q12 | Leopold von Ranke was a .............. positivist historian and a founder ofmodern source-based history.

Q13 | ............was born in Wiehe, then part of the Electorate of Saxony.

Q14 | In 1814, ...............entered the University of Leipzig, where his subjectswere Classics and Lutheran theology.

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.

Q16 | .....................usage of the English-language word 'ghost', in his1590 The Faerie Queene, demonstrates the former, broader meaning of the English-language term.

Q17 | Geist is a central concept in ................ The Phenomenology of Spirit .

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.

Q19 | .................... published his theory of human evolution in 1859.

Q20 | ............... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History.

Q21 | The Decline of the West is the work of ...................

Q22 | Oswald Spengler was a …………..philosopher and mathematician.

Q23 | ................... most important work,The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.

Q24 | ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’is the work of .................

Q25 | The French Revolution: A History (1837) is the work of ...............