Students’ Questions about History Page 7

Thomas Hobbes recommends a monarchy as the best form of government. He believes that a monarchy provides the most stability and order and that people are naturally inclined to be ruled by a single powerful individual.

There is no one answer to this question as there are no known images of Socrates. We can only imagine what he may have looked like based on descriptions from those who knew him.

Voltaire was exiled because he was a philosopher and he wrote a lot of satire. He was sent to prison because he was critical of the government.

William James is an American philosopher and psychologist who was trained as a medical doctor. He is considered to be the father of American psychology.

Voltaire was known for being a French philosopher and writer during the Enlightenment. He was also known for his criticisms of the Catholic Church.

The American philosopher John Dewey was influenced by the work of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.

John Dewey felt that the United States had no business getting involved in World War 1. He believed that the war was a European conflict and that America should stay out of it.

The type of therapy that Sigmund Freud introduced is psychoanalysis. This therapy focuses on the unconscious mind and early childhood experiences.

Thomas Hobbes believed in the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing God. He also believed in the existence of an afterlife in which people would be judged according to their deeds on Earth.

Reality is a single, unchanging whole. This single, unchanging reality is the only thing that exists.