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Sorel and Nietzsche shared the belief that


A) life is a struggle.
B) bourgeois society was decadent, unheroic, and life-denying.
C) the irrational is central.
D) society must change.
E) all of the above

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

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Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).    -Almost the moment it was created (by the introduction of universal manhood suffrage in many European states in the late nineteenth century),modern democracy came under attack from political theorists.What are some of the attacks described in this book? Which of them do you find convincing,and which do you not? -Almost the moment it was created (by the introduction of universal manhood suffrage in many European states in the late nineteenth century),modern democracy came under attack from political theorists.What are some of the attacks described in this book? Which of them do you find convincing,and which do you not?

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Freud shared all the following Enlightenment beliefs EXCEPT


A) reason and science are the avenue to knowledge.
B) reason and science are the hope of mankind.
C) rational knowledge should be used to relieve human misery.
D) human beings are essentially good.
E) science must pursue the truth until it has found it; religion, on the other hand perpetuates immaturity.

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Le Bon's work on crowds had a political subtext,namely that


A) crowds could form the basis for an anarcho-syndicalist government.
B) crowds could be manipulated to overthrow bourgeois governments.
C) the masses were incapable of governing themselves.
D) the behavior of crowds showed the power of reason.
E) individualism needs to be revived.

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Durkheim believed that modernity was actually


A) a throwback to a competitive primitive world.
B) deficient without a new moral system.
C) incomplete without restoring Christian thought.
D) contributing to mental health by respecting the desires and drives of individuals.
E) a scourge on humanity that needed to be overcome.

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -overman (superman)

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

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Who developed the theory of relativity?


A) Max Planck
B) Albert Einstein
C) Werner Heisenberg
D) Niels Bohr
E) Henri Baquerel

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Freud agreed with Christianity that


A) evil is rooted in human nature and not the result of the environment.
B) sex should only be used for procreation.
C) confessing all of one's darkest sins is necessary for salvation.
D) the most direct way to the truth is not through the intellect.
E) all of the above

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In The Will to Power,Nietzsche advocated


A) the rejection of rank and hierarchy.
B) the institution of socialism.
C) the use of the press to educate the ignorant masses.
D) the annihiliation of hypocrisy.
E) selflessness and obedience.

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

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Pareto may be associated with which of the following concepts?


A) Even in a so-called democracy, power rests with a few individuals.
B) In the crowd, the individual loses one's identity.
C) Modern man suffers from a "disenchantment of the world."
D) A utopian community in which all are equal and in which all share equally will be possible through education.
E) Western society becomes increasingly rational as it develops.

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Which of the following is NOT consistent with Nietzsche's beliefs?


A) Society should help the weak perish.
B) A society that has renounced war is a society in decline.
C) The state is the ultimate goal of the will to power.
D) German nationalism is abhorrent.
E) A single individual can determine a whole millennium.

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Sigmund Freud held that


A) people are fundamentally rational.
B) human behavior is governed mainly by inner forces hidden from the rational.
C) reason stifles humanity and the scientific method has outlived its usefulness.
D) sexual repression oppresses humanity and should be replaced by free sex.
E) the main cause of destructive behavior is ignorance.

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The democratic institutions and optimism still prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century were based on the


A) exaltation of force.
B) confidence in Europe's progress and values.
C) yearning of a new authority.
D) quest for the heroic.
E) fascination with the irrational and the primitive.

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Modernism in the arts sought to do all the following EXCEPT


A) denying objectivity.
B) enabling the audience of whatever kind to participate in the creative process.
C) rearranging reality.
D) conveying how the artist transforms what he encounters.
E) denying the inner reality of the artist.

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Nietzsche and Schopenhauer differed in that


A) Schopenhauer was a German nationalist, while Nietzsche was not.
B) Schopenhauer was a Romantic, while Nietzsche was a Realist.
C) Schopenhauer believed that the human desire for security trumped the will to power, while Nietzsche believed that the will to power was supreme.
D) Schopenhauer believed it necessary to repress humans' blind instinctive impulses, while Nietzsche believed that they needed to be given free play.
E) Schopenhauer believed that the future will be violent and unsettled, while Nietzsche believed that the acquisition of power lead to a profound silence and peace.

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Modern physics challenged Newtonian physics in all the following ways EXCEPT


A) time and space are no longer considered independent or absolute.
B) the law of cause and effect does not always apply.
C) the very act of scientific investigation alters what is being examined.
D) all forces in nature have been proven to be a single force expressed through mathematics.
E) at best, science can determine probability not certainty.

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For Durkheim,the average person in a modern society feels


A) bored.
B) isolated.
C) anxious.
D) pessimistic.
E) all of the above

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