Question 1

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Johann Gottfried Herder

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Johann Gottfried Herder was an influenti

Question 2

Romantics viewed folk culture as​

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A)  ​a expression of simple people with little to offer the modern world. 
B)  ​a collection of superstitions. 
C)  ​the deepest expression of national feeling. 
D)  ​deceptive and dangerous to nationalist goals. 
E)  ​steeped in past knowledge that had been saved by the Enlightenment. 
A)  ​a expression of simple people with little to offer the modern world. 
B)  ​a collection of superstitions. 
C)  ​the deepest expression of national feeling. 
D)  ​deceptive and dangerous to nationalist goals. 
E)  ​steeped in past knowledge that had been saved by the Enlightenment.

Question 3

Political conservatives shared with romantics

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A)  faith in the unique power and value of the individual imagination. 
B)  devotion to the principle of equality before the law. 
C)  anti-Semitism. 
D)  veneration of the past. 
E)  the rejection of the past. 
A)  faith in the unique power and value of the individual imagination. 
B)  devotion to the principle of equality before the law. 
C)  anti-Semitism. 
D)  veneration of the past. 
E)  the rejection of the past.

Question 4

The romantics were among the first to attack

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A)  human imagination. 
B)  industrial capitalism. 
C)  folk culture. 
D)  creative capacities inherent in emotions. 
E)  humanism. 
A)  human imagination. 
B)  industrial capitalism. 
C)  folk culture. 
D)  creative capacities inherent in emotions. 
E)  humanism.

Question 5

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a Ger

Question 6

All of the following helped to shape liberalism except

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A)  the rational outlook of the Greeks. 
B)  the view that human wickedness was not caused by faulty environment. 
C)  the Judeo-Christian respect for the worth and dignity of the individual. 
D)  John Locke's natural rights philosophy. 
E)  Montesquieu's theory of the separation of powers and of checks and balances. 
A)  the rational outlook of the Greeks. 
B)  the view that human wickedness was not caused by faulty environment. 
C)  the Judeo-Christian respect for the worth and dignity of the individual. 
D)  John Locke's natural rights philosophy. 
E)  Montesquieu's theory of the separation of powers and of checks and balances.

Question 7

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, phi

Question 8

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-tabula rasa

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Tabula rasa is a Latin term that transla

Question 9

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher w

Question 10

The American and French revolutions were crucial phases in the history of

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A)  conservatism. 
B)  romanticism. 
C)  liberalism. 
D)  radicalism. 
E)  socialism. 
A)  conservatism. 
B)  romanticism. 
C)  liberalism. 
D)  radicalism. 
E)  socialism.

Question 11

Two ideas that were crucial in shaping nationalism were

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A)  the rational outlook and folk history. 
B)  that power belongs to the king and the people are his subjects. 
C)  that the people possess unlimited sovereignty and that they are united in a nation. 
D)  that all people must have a right to exist and that the strong must respect the rights of the weak. 
E)  conservatism and radicalism. 
A)  the rational outlook and folk history. 
B)  that power belongs to the king and the people are his subjects. 
C)  that the people possess unlimited sovereignty and that they are united in a nation. 
D)  that all people must have a right to exist and that the strong must respect the rights of the weak. 
E)  conservatism and radicalism.

Question 12

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
  
-Why was history a very important part of the work of Hegel? In what way did Hegel's view of freedom actually limit man's freedom of action? How did his ideas contrast with the ideas of the philosophes?

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Hegel believed that history was a very i

Question 13

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-German idealism

Accepted Answer

German idealism refers to a philosophica

Question 14

Of the following, ____ chose to utilize Hegel's idea that there is system behind the movement of history.

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A)  Hume 
B)  Kant 
C)  de Bonald 
D)  Freud 
E)  Marx 
A)  Hume 
B)  Kant 
C)  de Bonald 
D)  Freud 
E)  Marx

Question 15

The best characterization of the romantics' attitude towards history is

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A)  lack of interest. 
B)  a search for general laws of history. 
C)  respect for and interest in each specific historical epoch. 
D)  a search for edifying moral lessons from history. 
E)  history served a didactic purpose by providing examples of human folly. 
A)  lack of interest. 
B)  a search for general laws of history. 
C)  respect for and interest in each specific historical epoch. 
D)  a search for edifying moral lessons from history. 
E)  history served a didactic purpose by providing examples of human folly.

Question 16

Conservatives were likely to blame which of the following as the root of human malevolence?

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A)  Irrational laws 
B)  Poor education 
C)  Human nature 
D)  A bad environment 
E)  Liberals 
A)  Irrational laws 
B)  Poor education 
C)  Human nature 
D)  A bad environment 
E)  Liberals

Question 17

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
  
-Compare and contrast liberalism with conservatism.

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Liberalism and conservatism are two poli

Question 18

The most important of the Young Hegelians was

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A)  Feuerbach. 
B)  Kierkegaard. 
C)  Hume. 
D)  Marx. 
E)  Kant. 
A)  Feuerbach. 
B)  Kierkegaard. 
C)  Hume. 
D)  Marx. 
E)  Kant.

Question 19

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Volksgeist

Accepted Answer

Volksgeist is a German term that transla

Question 20

Who has been called the dominant figure among French romantics?

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A)  Flaubert 
B)  Zola 
C)  Sand 
D)  Hugo 
E)  Bacon 
A)  Flaubert 
B)  Zola 
C)  Sand 
D)  Hugo 
E)  Bacon

Exam 13: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Johann Gottfried Herder

Romantics viewed folk culture as​

Political conservatives shared with romantics

The romantics were among the first to attack

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

All of the following helped to shape liberalism except

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Edmund Burke

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -tabula rasa

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Immanuel Kant

The American and French revolutions were crucial phases in the history of

Two ideas that were crucial in shaping nationalism were

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -Why was history a very important part of the work of Hegel? In what way did Hegel's view of freedom actually limit man's freedom of action? How did his ideas contrast with the ideas of the philosophes?

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -German idealism

Of the following, ____ chose to utilize Hegel's idea that there is system behind the movement of history.

The best characterization of the romantics' attitude towards history is

Conservatives were likely to blame which of the following as the root of human malevolence?

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -Compare and contrast liberalism with conservatism.

The most important of the Young Hegelians was

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Volksgeist

Who has been called the dominant figure among French romantics?

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