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Philosophical Treatises With Long Titles!

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Introduction:
"Did you ever notice how long some titles were on those old philosophical treatises from the Renaissance period and beyond? Now you'll get a chance to apply that information to a useful cause...trivia!"


1. Which Pope came in with the real whizzer of a title, 'On the Misery of the Human Condition'?
    Gregory VII
    Pius X
    Innocent III
    Leo VI


2. Which of these fellows thought he had a best-seller with 'Oration on the Dignity of Man'?
    Pico della Mirandola
    Coluccio Salutati
    Saint Augustine
    Michael Servetus


3. Whose 'Declamation Concerning the False Decretals of Constantine' managed to get the attention of church authorities, but did not make the New York Times list?
    Saint Vincent
    Lorenzo Valla
    Francois Rebelais
    Martin Luther


4. Which fellow came up with the Michener-esque title 'Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'?
    Copernicus
    Galileo
    Kepler
    Newton


5. 'Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius' was most likely one of the lesser known titles from which 'prince'ly fellow?
    Boccaccio
    Dante
    Machiavelli
    Petrarch


6. Whose 'Philosophical Commentary on the Words of Jesus 'Constrain them to Come in'' knocked them out in the aisles of late 17th century bookstores?
    John Toland
    Thomas Paine
    Matthew Tindal
    Pierre Bayle


7. Which early American colonist was the author of the tome with the catchy title 'The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Causes of Conscience'?
    Miles Standish
    Roger Williams
    William Penn
    Peter Minuet


8. Just when you think the titles couldn't get any longer, along came whom with his 'Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind'?
    Cesare Beccaria
    Denis Diderot
    Pierre Turgot
    Marquis de Condorcet


9. Following Olympe de Gouges' 'Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, who followed up with 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' in 1792?
    George Eliot
    Mary Shelley
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    Elizabeth Browning


10. Whose 'Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism', published at the beginning of the 20th century, ends our tremulous trek through these treacherous titles?
    Max Weber
    John Keynes
    Sigmund Freud
    Friedrich Engels


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