Think you’ve got your head wrapped around An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals? Put your knowledge to
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Q. Which warrior did the historian Livy describe as having "many eminent virtues…balanced by great Vices"?
Alexander the Great
Spartacus
Hannibal
The Rock
Q. What quality does Hume describe as having "a productive faculty, and gilding or staining all natural objects with the colours, borrowed from internal sentiment, raises in a manner a new creation"?
Reason
Taste
Emoticons
Honesty
Q. Hereditary riches may be valued in most countries in Europe, but in which country does Hume claim that "more regard is paid to present opulence"?
Italy
England
Arendelle
Genovia
Q. What does Hume see as being "absolutely requisite to the well-being of mankind and existence of society"?
Vanity
Chocolate
Facebook
Justice
Q. What type of "virtues" does Hume believe "neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society; neither qualify him for the entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment"?
Social virtues
Monkish virtues
Gloomy virtues
Natural virtues