Exam 2: Important Figures and Works in Western Philosophy and History

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

Although the positivist approach has been a recurrent theme in the history of Western thought, the modern sense of the approach was developed by the philosopher and founding sociologist ................. in the early 19th century.

In 1814, ...............entered the University of Leipzig, where his subjects were Classics and Lutheran theology.

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

.................first described the epistemological perspective of positivism in 'The Course in Positive Philosophy'.

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

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

.....................usage of the English-language word 'ghost', in his 1590 The Faerie Queene, demonstrates the former, broader meaning of the English-language term.

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

.................. is best known for his magnum opus, the Scienza Nuova of 1725, often published in English as New Science.

The French Revolution of .......................

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

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

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.

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

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

'Reflections on the Revolution in France'is the work of .................

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

Giovan Battista (Giambattista) Vico was an .............. political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist.

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