Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Irrationalism is a philosophical concept

Question 2

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
  
-Social thinkers diagnosed the ills of modernizing societies in various different ways in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What were the different diagnoses and who was responsible for each one?

Accepted Answer

One social thinker who diagnosed the ill

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Georges Sorel was a French philosopher a

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Arnold Schönberg was an Austrian compose

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

The term "Overman" is a concept introduc

Question 6

Georges Sorel's ideas may be equated with

Accepted Answer

A)  hope in the proletariat. 
B)  support of the bourgeois values. 
C)  anti-unionism. 
D)  intellectual support of the establishment. 
E)  hope in the bourgeoisie. 
A)  hope in the proletariat. 
B)  support of the bourgeois values. 
C)  anti-unionism. 
D)  intellectual support of the establishment. 
E)  hope in the bourgeoisie.

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

Nihilism is a philosophical doctrine tha

Question 8

Who of the following aimed to construct a system of sociology on the model of the physical sciences?

Accepted Answer

A)  Freud 
B)  Bergson 
C)  Weber 
D)  Durkheim 
E)  Pareto 
A)  Freud 
B)  Bergson 
C)  Weber 
D)  Durkheim 
E)  Pareto

Question 9

All of the following statements describe Nietzsche's attack on Christianity EXCEPT

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A)  Christianity saddled people with guilt 
B)  Christian values led to the deterioration of life and culture. 
C)  Christian doctrines continue to increase the worth of a man's soul. 
D)  God is man's own creation. 
E)  Morality, values, and truths do not derive from God. 
A)  Christianity saddled people with guilt 
B)  Christian values led to the deterioration of life and culture. 
C)  Christian doctrines continue to increase the worth of a man's soul. 
D)  God is man's own creation. 
E)  Morality, values, and truths do not derive from God.

Question 10

Who showed that matter and energy are two different expressions of the same physical entity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Albert Einstein 
B)  Isaac Newton 
C)  Max Planck 
D)  Werner Heisenberg 
E)  Max Weber 
A)  Albert Einstein 
B)  Isaac Newton 
C)  Max Planck 
D)  Werner Heisenberg 
E)  Max Weber

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

The steel cage is a structure used in pr

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

The theory of relativity is a scientific

Question 13

The authors refer to which of the following as the "principal figure in the 'dethronement of reason'"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Nietzsche 
B)  Schopenhauer 
C)  Sorel 
D)  Bergson 
E)  Newton 
A)  Nietzsche 
B)  Schopenhauer 
C)  Sorel 
D)  Bergson 
E)  Newton

Question 14

Max Weber's field of activity may be associated with

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A)  propagandizing for the Wandervogel. 
B)  leading the field of modern sociology. 
C)  rivaling Freud in psychoanalysis. 
D)  advancing medical research. 
E)  humanism. 
A)  propagandizing for the Wandervogel. 
B)  leading the field of modern sociology. 
C)  rivaling Freud in psychoanalysis. 
D)  advancing medical research. 
E)  humanism.

Question 15

Freud would have agreed that

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A)  human nature is naturally good. 
B)  evil is a product of environmental conditions. 
C)  people are quite capable of controlling their irrational impulses. 
D)  one must strive for a utopia for humankind. 
E)  human nature is not naturally good. 
A)  human nature is naturally good. 
B)  evil is a product of environmental conditions. 
C)  people are quite capable of controlling their irrational impulses. 
D)  one must strive for a utopia for humankind. 
E)  human nature is not naturally good.

Question 16

Freud viewed unrestrained sexuality as a problem because it

Accepted Answer

A)  rejected Christian morality and marriage. 
B)  led to abuse of women. 
C)  sapped a society's warrior virtues. 
D)  sapped psychic energy needed for all sorts of work that held society together and enriched it. 
E)  created excessive pleasure for the individual. 
A)  rejected Christian morality and marriage. 
B)  led to abuse of women. 
C)  sapped a society's warrior virtues. 
D)  sapped psychic energy needed for all sorts of work that held society together and enriched it. 
E)  created excessive pleasure for the individual.

Question 17

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Civilization and Its Discontents

Accepted Answer

Civilization is a term used to describe

Question 18

In 1927, Werner Heisenberg demonstrated that

Accepted Answer

A)  everything is relative. 
B)  it is impossible to know the precise position and velocity of an electron at a given moment. 
C)  nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. 
D)  quantum mechanic wave functions were representations of statistical probability. 
E)  we can have a complete knowledge of the universe. 
A)  everything is relative. 
B)  it is impossible to know the precise position and velocity of an electron at a given moment. 
C)  nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. 
D)  quantum mechanic wave functions were representations of statistical probability. 
E)  we can have a complete knowledge of the universe.

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Paul Klee was a Swiss-German artist know

Question 20

Which of the following statements best summarizes Nietzsche's view of Christianity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Christians needed to return to the principles enunciated in the Sermon on the Mount. 
B)  Christianity was the "opiate of the people." 
C)  Christianity was for weaklings and hypocrites. 
D)  Christ was a great man, but not literally the Son of God. 
E)  Christianity revives the spark of life in man. 
A)  Christians needed to return to the principles enunciated in the Sermon on the Mount. 
B)  Christianity was the "opiate of the people." 
C)  Christianity was for weaklings and hypocrites. 
D)  Christ was a great man, but not literally the Son of God. 
E)  Christianity revives the spark of life in man.

Exam 17: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, Human Nature, and the Arts

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

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -Social thinkers diagnosed the ills of modernizing societies in various different ways in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What were the different diagnoses and who was responsible for each one?

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

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

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

Georges Sorel's ideas may be equated with

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

Who of the following aimed to construct a system of sociology on the model of the physical sciences?

All of the following statements describe Nietzsche's attack on Christianity EXCEPT

Who showed that matter and energy are two different expressions of the same physical entity?

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

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

The authors refer to which of the following as the "principal figure in the 'dethronement of reason'"?

Max Weber's field of activity may be associated with

Freud would have agreed that

Freud viewed unrestrained sexuality as a problem because it

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Civilization and Its Discontents

In 1927, Werner Heisenberg demonstrated that

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

Which of the following statements best summarizes Nietzsche's view of Christianity?

The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual

The Greeks: From Myth to Reason

Rome: From City-State to World Empire

Early Christianity: a World Religion

The Rise of Europe: Fusion of Classical, Christian, and Germanic Traditions

The Flowering and Dissolution of Medieval Civilization

Transition to the Modern Age: Renaissance and Reformation

Political and Economic Transformation: National States, Overseas Expansion, Commercial Revolution

Intellectual Transformation: the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment

The Era of the French Revolution: Affirmation of Liberty and Equality

The Industrial Revolution: the Transformation of Society

Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century

Surge of Liberalism and Nationalism: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Unification

Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism, Positivism, Darwinism, and Social Criticism

Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century: Modernization, Nationalism, Imperialism

World War I: the West in Despair

An Era of Totalitarianism

World War 2: Western Civilization in the Balance

Europe After World War 2: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-1989

The Troubled Present

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