Question 1

1 / 1 pts

For Nietzsche, our irrational drives should be

  

repressed;

 

 

  

freely expressed;

 

 

  

channelled into artistic and cultural expression;

 

 

  

extirpated

 

 

 

 

 

Question 2

1 / 1 pts

For Nietzsche, psychological health comes with

  

identifying with other people and treating them empathetically;

 

 

  

managing to divest oneself from troublesome desires;

 

 

  

mastering and integrating one’s competing drives and inclinations;

 

 

  

renouncing all worldly ambition.

 

 

 

 

 

Question 3

1 / 1 pts

For Nietzsche, the will to power is most strongly manifested in

  

political dictatorship;

 

 

  

asceticism;

 

 

  

physical strength;

 

 

  

economic power.

 

 

 

 

 

Question 4

1 / 1 pts

For Schopenhauer, a contented life can only come about if we

  

free ourselves from desire and striving;

 

 

  

amass as much wealth as possible;

 

 

  

try to improve wider society;

 

 

  

try to satisfy as many of our desires as possible.

 

 

 

 

 

Question 5

1 / 1 pts

For Schopenhauer, people are primarily driven by

  

rational self interest;

 

 

  

unconscious instinctual urges;

 

 

  

political ideology;

 

 

  

desire for dominance

 

 

 

 

 

Question 6

1 / 1 pts

Nietzsche criticised Christian morality for which of the following reasons?
i. It tries to deny our need for dominance and cruelty;
ii. It results in guilt and bad conscience;
iii. It champions the weak over the strong;
iv. It is too hierarchical.

  

i only;

 

 

  

i and ii only;

 

 

  

i, ii, and iii only;

 

 

  

i, ii, iii, and iv.

 

 

 

 

 

Question 7

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Schopenhauer thought that Kant had gone wrong in arguing that

  

the noumenal realm consisted of plural things in themselves rather than one thing in itself;

 

 

  

there was any realm of existence outside our perceptual experience;

 

 

  

space and time are inbuilt categories of the mind;

 

 

  

we have direct knowledge of our inner selves.

 

 

 

 

 

Question 8

1 / 1 pts

The Will prefigures which of the following Freudian ideas?

  

Id;

 

 

  

Ego;

 

 

  

Superego;

 

 

  

Preconscious.

 

 

 

 

 

Question 9

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We may be unaware of the drives of the Will because

  

their force is intermittent rather than continuous;

 

 

  

they are subtle and easily overlooked;

 

 

  

they are weak compared to the deliberate reasons that lie behind our conduct;

 

 

  

we cannot admit to ourselves that we are driven by such base desires.

 

 

 

 

 

Question 10

1 / 1 pts

Why was Schopenhauer a pessimist?

  

Because the metaphysical Will can never be satisfied;

 

 

  

Because he was naturally a gloomy sort of person;

 

 

  

Because he did not believe in an afterlife;

 

 

  

Because he did not believe in free will.