Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Nihilism is a philosophical belief that

Question 2

Georges Sorel's ideas may be associated with

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

Question 3

The text identifies which of the following as the "principal figure in the dethronement of reason"?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

Who discovered X-rays?

Accepted Answer

A)  Albert Einstein 
B)  Werner Heisenberg 
C)  Max Planck 
D)  Wilhelm Roentgen 
E)  Marie Sklodowska Curie 
A)  Albert Einstein 
B)  Werner Heisenberg 
C)  Max Planck 
D)  Wilhelm Roentgen 
E)  Marie Sklodowska Curie

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Irrationalism is a philosophical doctrin

Question 6

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
  
-Locate and labelthe homeland of Durkheim,Einstein,Freud,Heisenberg,Nietzsche,Picasso,and Sorel.

Accepted Answer

As an AI, I'm unable to physically inter

Question 7

The theory of relativity states that

Accepted Answer

A)  time does not have an independent, objective existence divorced from human experience. 
B)  space does not have an independent, objective existence divorced from human experience. 
C)  motion is relative; there is no absolute reference point. 
D)  matter and energy are two expressions of the same physical entity. 
E)  all of the above 
A)  time does not have an independent, objective existence divorced from human experience. 
B)  space does not have an independent, objective existence divorced from human experience. 
C)  motion is relative; there is no absolute reference point. 
D)  matter and energy are two expressions of the same physical entity. 
E)  all of the above

Question 8

In Civilization and Its Discontents Freud states that

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A)  there is a relentless struggle between human instincts and the demands made by civilization. 
B)  civilization demands that the psychic energy people instinctually direct toward pleasure be diverted to other purposes. 
C)  through the family, school, church, and the police, society enforces its demands on people psychic energy. 
D)  people are guaranteed misery either from not satisfying their need for pleasure or from the guilt of satisfying it. 
E)  all of the above 
A)  there is a relentless struggle between human instincts and the demands made by civilization. 
B)  civilization demands that the psychic energy people instinctually direct toward pleasure be diverted to other purposes. 
C)  through the family, school, church, and the police, society enforces its demands on people psychic energy. 
D)  people are guaranteed misery either from not satisfying their need for pleasure or from the guilt of satisfying it. 
E)  all of the above

Question 9

For his admirers,Bergson represented a celebration of

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A)  intuition. 
B)  positivism. 
C)  mechanism. 
D)  materialism. 
E)  all of the above 
A)  intuition. 
B)  positivism. 
C)  mechanism. 
D)  materialism. 
E)  all of the above

Question 10

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
  
-What did Max Weber mean by "the disenchantment of the world," and what problems did he associate with secular rationality?

Accepted Answer

Max Weber, a prominent sociologist, used

Question 11

The leading sociological thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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A)  regarded sciences as the only valid model for correct thinking. 
B)  believed secular thinkers rather than theologians were best suited to comprehend the human condition. 
C)  struggled with the dilemmas of modern society. 
D)  gained insights into group and mass psychology. 
E)  all of the above 
A)  regarded sciences as the only valid model for correct thinking. 
B)  believed secular thinkers rather than theologians were best suited to comprehend the human condition. 
C)  struggled with the dilemmas of modern society. 
D)  gained insights into group and mass psychology. 
E)  all of the above

Question 12

Which artist's work,which includedThe Starry Night,expressed his tumultuous temperament?

Accepted Answer

A)  Van Gogh 
B)  Picasso 
C)  Kandinsky 
D)  Mondrian 
E)  Matisse 
A)  Van Gogh 
B)  Picasso 
C)  Kandinsky 
D)  Mondrian 
E)  Matisse

Question 13

Which of the following developments seemed to nineteenth-century thinkers to confirm the belief in humanity's future progress posited by the philosophes?

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A)  the extension of education 
B)  the spread of parliamentary government 
C)  advances in science and technology 
D)  concern for individual liberty and social reform 
E)  all of the above 
A)  the extension of education 
B)  the spread of parliamentary government 
C)  advances in science and technology 
D)  concern for individual liberty and social reform 
E)  all of the above

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theor

Question 15

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).
  
-In what ways did irrationalism constitute a challenge to the legacy of the Enlightenment in the Western tradition?

Accepted Answer

Irrationalism posed a challenge to the l

Question 16

The stream of consciousness is best described as

Accepted Answer

A)  structured, composed memory. 
B)  a stream of thoughts without clear differentiation between the conscious and unconscious. 
C)  a psychiatrist's determination of a patient's major self-insights. 
D)  modern mysticism in which the divine flows directly into a person's consciousness. 
E)  the growing interconnectedness of people in modern society. 
A)  structured, composed memory. 
B)  a stream of thoughts without clear differentiation between the conscious and unconscious. 
C)  a psychiatrist's determination of a patient's major self-insights. 
D)  modern mysticism in which the divine flows directly into a person's consciousness. 
E)  the growing interconnectedness of people in modern society.

Question 17

Nietzsche's attack on the values and ideologies of his day included his indictment of all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  bourgeois society. 
B)  the faith in progress. 
C)  Christian values. 
D)  parliamentary government, universal suffrage, and social reform. 
E)  individual potential. 
A)  bourgeois society. 
B)  the faith in progress. 
C)  Christian values. 
D)  parliamentary government, universal suffrage, and social reform. 
E)  individual potential.

Question 18

Nietzsche's explanation for the historical victory of Christianity includes all the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  the triumph of Christianity in the ancient world was the victory of the weak over the capable and the virtuous. 
B)  Christians were society's failures who redefined strength and love of life into sin: Christianity is life-denying. 
C)  Christianity spread without resorting to the guilt that other faiths employed to shame those who deviated from their principles and practices. 
D)  "Christianity is a revolt of everything that crawls along the ground against that which is elevated." 
E)  Christian praise of love, compassion, and pity is actually a mask for envy, hatred, and revenge. 
A)  the triumph of Christianity in the ancient world was the victory of the weak over the capable and the virtuous. 
B)  Christians were society's failures who redefined strength and love of life into sin: Christianity is life-denying. 
C)  Christianity spread without resorting to the guilt that other faiths employed to shame those who deviated from their principles and practices. 
D)  "Christianity is a revolt of everything that crawls along the ground against that which is elevated." 
E)  Christian praise of love, compassion, and pity is actually a mask for envy, hatred, and revenge.

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

The id and the ego are key concepts in S

Question 20

The questioning of rationality in so many fields at the turn of the twentieth century undermined liberalism by

Accepted Answer

A)  showing that inalienable human rights are simply a historically based creation of the human mind. 
B)  concluding that a society cannot function as liberals assumed because people are not rational. 
C)  arguing that the most basic ideas of human rights and popular sovereignty are simply tools cynically used by elites. 
D)  offering people more emotion, irrational ideologies. 
E)  all of the above
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A)  showing that inalienable human rights are simply a historically based creation of the human mind. 
B)  concluding that a society cannot function as liberals assumed because people are not rational. 
C)  arguing that the most basic ideas of human rights and popular sovereignty are simply tools cynically used by elites. 
D)  offering people more emotion, irrational ideologies. 
E)  all of the above
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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -nihilism

Georges Sorel's ideas may be associated with

The text identifies which of the following as the "principal figure in the dethronement of reason"?

Who discovered X-rays?

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

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -Locate and labelthe homeland of Durkheim,Einstein,Freud,Heisenberg,Nietzsche,Picasso,and Sorel.

The theory of relativity states that

In Civilization and Its Discontents Freud states that

For his admirers,Bergson represented a celebration of

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -What did Max Weber mean by "the disenchantment of the world," and what problems did he associate with secular rationality?

The leading sociological thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Which artist's work,which includedThe Starry Night,expressed his tumultuous temperament?

Which of the following developments seemed to nineteenth-century thinkers to confirm the belief in humanity's future progress posited by the philosophes?

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

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -In what ways did irrationalism constitute a challenge to the legacy of the Enlightenment in the Western tradition?

The stream of consciousness is best described as

Nietzsche's attack on the values and ideologies of his day included his indictment of all of the following EXCEPT

Nietzsche's explanation for the historical victory of Christianity includes all the following EXCEPT

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

The questioning of rationality in so many fields at the turn of the twentieth century undermined liberalism by

The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State

The Scientific Revolution: the Universe Seen As a Mechanism

The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform

The French Revolution: the Affirmation of Liberty and Equality

The Industrial Revolution: the Great Transformation

Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century

Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1815-1848

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

The Surge of Nationalism: From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism

The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization

Imperialism: Western Global Dominance

World War I: the West in Despair

An Era of Totalitarianism

Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism

World War Ii: Western Civilization in the Balance

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

The Troubled Present

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Exam 12: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, human Nature, and the Arts

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

Georges Sorel's ideas may be associated with

The text identifies which of the following as the "principal figure in the dethronement of reason"?

Who discovered X-rays?

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

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -Locate and labelthe homeland of Durkheim,Einstein,Freud,Heisenberg,Nietzsche,Picasso,and Sorel.

The theory of relativity states that

In Civilization and Its Discontents Freud states that

For his admirers,Bergson represented a celebration of

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -What did Max Weber mean by "the disenchantment of the world," and what problems did he associate with secular rationality?

The leading sociological thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Which artist's work,which includedThe Starry Night,expressed his tumultuous temperament?

Which of the following developments seemed to nineteenth-century thinkers to confirm the belief in humanity's future progress posited by the philosophes?

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

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -In what ways did irrationalism constitute a challenge to the legacy of the Enlightenment in the Western tradition?

The stream of consciousness is best described as

Nietzsche's attack on the values and ideologies of his day included his indictment of all of the following EXCEPT

Nietzsche's explanation for the historical victory of Christianity includes all the following EXCEPT

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

The questioning of rationality in so many fields at the turn of the twentieth century undermined liberalism by

The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State

The Scientific Revolution: the Universe Seen As a Mechanism

The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform

The French Revolution: the Affirmation of Liberty and Equality

The Industrial Revolution: the Great Transformation

Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century

Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1815-1848

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

The Surge of Nationalism: From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism

The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization

Imperialism: Western Global Dominance

World War I: the West in Despair

An Era of Totalitarianism

Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism

World War Ii: Western Civilization in the Balance

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

The Troubled Present

Filters