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Section 1: Multiple Choice questions


#1 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

Coeditor of the Encyclopedia. In 1751 set out to find coauthors to examine the human knowledge... 72,000 articles on everything, and it was very influential and widely read. Knowledge is awesome!



#2 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

Not sure why the textbook doesn't list him as important. He criticized Kant, as Beattie was not racist.



#3 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

Scottish, in Edinburgh, and said that reason has its limits — if you can't scientifically sense it to learn about it (or do math for it), then you can't know it. Paradoxically showed the limits of Enlightenment's faith in reason in things like the existence of God or the origin of the Universe. He also was racist.



#4 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

Coeditor of the Encyclopedia. In 1751 set out to find coauthors to examine the human knowledge... 72,000 articles on everything, and it was very influential and widely read. Knowledge is awesome!



#5 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

Coeditor of the Encyclopedia. Hated Europeans exploiting people. In 1751 set out to find coauthors to examine the human knowledge... 72,000 articles on everything, and it was very influential and widely read. Knowledge is awesome! Also, jailed sixty years before Darwin's birth for questioning a creating God and suggesting autonomous evolution



Section 2: True/false questions


#6 Determine if the following combination is true or false.

David Hume (1711-1776)

Prscticing an unusual branch of Judaism, Baruch Spinoza believed that nature = God, that science can determine everything, and that body = mind. Ryan's comment: Perhaps an early form of pantheism?







#7 Determine if the following combination is true or false.

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)

Pierre hated Louis XIV and ran to the Netherlands where he pushed heavily for skepticism and critical thinking. Highly influential "Historical and Critical Dictionary" (1697) showing how stupid people can be.







#8 Determine if the following combination is true or false.

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

Prscticing an unusual branch of Judaism, Baruch Spinoza believed that nature = God, that science can determine everything, and that body = mind. Ryan's comment: Perhaps an early form of pantheism?







#9 Determine if the following combination is true or false.

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)

Pierre hated Louis XIV and ran to the Netherlands where he pushed heavily for skepticism and critical thinking. Highly influential "Historical and Critical Dictionary" (1697) showing how stupid people can be.







#10 Determine if the following combination is true or false.

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

Prscticing an unusual branch of Judaism, Baruch Spinoza believed that nature = God, that science can determine everything, and that body = mind. Ryan's comment: Perhaps an early form of pantheism?









Triple-checked your answers?