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1. Are the following two sentences beginning with 'Did' and 'Did not' questions?
2. What types of question are they?
3. Is first one 'rhetorical question' and second 'affirmative question'?
Or are both 'rhetorical'?
4. Second one doesn't have question mark there. Doesn't it need question mark here?
Context:
Does it not, for instance, appear ironical that this most sober of all the religious doctrines is still considered by many Westerners as some sort of idolatry
or mysticism? Did not the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, already long
years ago, understand and lay stress upon this absolute soberness and clearness of
Buddhism when he said:
Buddhism is a hundred times more realistic than Christianity. It has entered upon the inheritance of objectively and coolly putting problems. It came to life after several hundred years of philosophical development. The notion of “God” is done away with as soon as it appears. Prayer is out of the question. So is asceticism. No categorical imperative. No coercion at all, not even within the monastic community. Hence it also does not challenge to fight against those of a different faith. Its teaching turns against nothing so impressively as against the feeling of revengefulness, animosity and
resentment.
Source: Page. 1
Fundamentals of Buddhism by Nyanatiloka Mahåthera
2. What types of question are they?
3. Is first one 'rhetorical question' and second 'affirmative question'?
Or are both 'rhetorical'?
4. Second one doesn't have question mark there. Doesn't it need question mark here?
Context:
Does it not, for instance, appear ironical that this most sober of all the religious doctrines is still considered by many Westerners as some sort of idolatry
or mysticism? Did not the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, already long
years ago, understand and lay stress upon this absolute soberness and clearness of
Buddhism when he said:
Buddhism is a hundred times more realistic than Christianity. It has entered upon the inheritance of objectively and coolly putting problems. It came to life after several hundred years of philosophical development. The notion of “God” is done away with as soon as it appears. Prayer is out of the question. So is asceticism. No categorical imperative. No coercion at all, not even within the monastic community. Hence it also does not challenge to fight against those of a different faith. Its teaching turns against nothing so impressively as against the feeling of revengefulness, animosity and
resentment.
Source: Page. 1
Fundamentals of Buddhism by Nyanatiloka Mahåthera
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