HUM 2250 FINAL EXAM WITH
CORRECT SOLUTION
Politically, all of the following occurred in the postwar world: - ANSWER Widespread
decolonization in Western cultures (either freely or under pressure, from their centers
of control in Asia and Africa; India gaining independence from Britain due largely to the
nonviolent campaigns of Gandhi; the establishment of Maoist China; the origin of the
Cold War mainly between the US and Soviet Union.
The basis for the civil rights movement began to arise with: - ANSWER Brown v. Board of
Education, Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the emergence of Martin
Luther King Jr, and the women's movement also gained new ground due in part to
women working in factories during the war.
In response to WWII: - ANSWER Western optimism and its sense of progress, stemming
from the Enlightenment, died and the West began looking for a new identity, and one of
the central concerns of its artists and intellectuals became overcoming oppression
chiefly as related to race, class, gender.
American Consumerism - ANSWER Saw a vigorous reemergence in the postwar period
and there was an economic boom, leading to the creation of Disneyland, many fast-food
chains, the invention of the credit card as we know it, and the dramatic rise of American
television culture, supported by mass advertising.
Exestentialism - ANSWER a postwar philosophical and cultural movement with its roots
in the crisis of self-identity and doubt in postwar Europe, manifested in philosophy, art,
and theater, chiefly concerned with individual human existence and how to live one's life
in the midst of in an unfathomable universe.
Central Figures associated with Existentialism - ANSWER Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,
Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, German Jewish
religious philosopher Martin Buber, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.
Existentialists put great emphasis on: - ANSWER the fact that humans, unlike plant and
animal life, experience freedom and so, by necessity, have the responsibility to make
decisions about the direction of their lives amidst limited knowledge and great
uncertainty.
Existentialism was: - ANSWER not a consistent school of thought but more a
philosophical approach or attitude concerned with what were considered central
problems experienced in human existence, but how figures associated with
existentialism came to grips with those problems could vary widely and contradict one
another.
, Jean-Paul Sartre - ANSWER Central to his philosophy was the notion of radical freedom,
that one's entire identity, in subjective terms, is the result of one's will and how one
chooses to view and interpret oneself and everything else, as well as the meaning
consigned thereto.
One of the major emphases of Sartre's view of human life is: - ANSWER the
unavoidability of choice, that not choosing is not possible, that one's life is entirely the
result of the totality of one's choices, and so one is completely responsible for one's life,
"condemned" to be free, which is a source of great anxiety and so often hidden from
oneself.
Sartre was: - ANSWER a philosopher, novelist and playwright, a deeply polarizing figure
in his time, being greatly loved and greatly hated, and also a political activist who deeply
influenced left-wing politics of his day, changing the focus of the left from issues of class
to issues of consciousness and self-identity, including issues of gender and sexuality.
Sartre held to a form of: - ANSWER subjectivism, believing the world not to have
inherent meaning, holding that human consciousness entirely creates the world's
meaning, and believed consciousness creates a distance between the humanity and the
world not experienced by animal life.
in Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism, he explains that: - ANSWER man is in anguish
because of his great responsibility, and thinks it is very distressing that, as he sees it,
God does not exist, but also holds that his existentialism is the most optimistic of
positions.
in Existentialism Is a Humanism, Sartre frequently makes the statement: - ANSWER
"existence precedes essence," meaning that man initially receives existence without
inherent meaning and only afterward assigns himself, and the world, definition and
meaning.
Sartre believes, following Dostoevsky, that: - ANSWER if God does not exist, all things
are morally permissible, which he in fact (unlike Dostoevsky), takes to be the starting
point of his philosophical position.
Sartre's philosophy demands radical action since: - ANSWER he holds that each
individual is entirely responsible for who one is, and also holds that how one creates
oneself has universal implications for humanity as a whole.
Abstract Expressionism - ANSWER The movement, born in NYC (center of the art world
in postwar context), and the first US art movement to achieve international acclaim, was
nonrepresentational in form (abstract), and expressed the inner emotional life of the
artist (expressionist), expressing itself in "action painting."
Jackson Pollock - ANSWER ________ along with other abstract Expressionists, favored
chance and spontaneity in their art, seeking to express a state beyond deliberation,
control or structure, seeking to suppress conscious intention and to tap into and
express the world of the subconscious and its creative forces, which all shows the
CORRECT SOLUTION
Politically, all of the following occurred in the postwar world: - ANSWER Widespread
decolonization in Western cultures (either freely or under pressure, from their centers
of control in Asia and Africa; India gaining independence from Britain due largely to the
nonviolent campaigns of Gandhi; the establishment of Maoist China; the origin of the
Cold War mainly between the US and Soviet Union.
The basis for the civil rights movement began to arise with: - ANSWER Brown v. Board of
Education, Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the emergence of Martin
Luther King Jr, and the women's movement also gained new ground due in part to
women working in factories during the war.
In response to WWII: - ANSWER Western optimism and its sense of progress, stemming
from the Enlightenment, died and the West began looking for a new identity, and one of
the central concerns of its artists and intellectuals became overcoming oppression
chiefly as related to race, class, gender.
American Consumerism - ANSWER Saw a vigorous reemergence in the postwar period
and there was an economic boom, leading to the creation of Disneyland, many fast-food
chains, the invention of the credit card as we know it, and the dramatic rise of American
television culture, supported by mass advertising.
Exestentialism - ANSWER a postwar philosophical and cultural movement with its roots
in the crisis of self-identity and doubt in postwar Europe, manifested in philosophy, art,
and theater, chiefly concerned with individual human existence and how to live one's life
in the midst of in an unfathomable universe.
Central Figures associated with Existentialism - ANSWER Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,
Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, German Jewish
religious philosopher Martin Buber, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.
Existentialists put great emphasis on: - ANSWER the fact that humans, unlike plant and
animal life, experience freedom and so, by necessity, have the responsibility to make
decisions about the direction of their lives amidst limited knowledge and great
uncertainty.
Existentialism was: - ANSWER not a consistent school of thought but more a
philosophical approach or attitude concerned with what were considered central
problems experienced in human existence, but how figures associated with
existentialism came to grips with those problems could vary widely and contradict one
another.
, Jean-Paul Sartre - ANSWER Central to his philosophy was the notion of radical freedom,
that one's entire identity, in subjective terms, is the result of one's will and how one
chooses to view and interpret oneself and everything else, as well as the meaning
consigned thereto.
One of the major emphases of Sartre's view of human life is: - ANSWER the
unavoidability of choice, that not choosing is not possible, that one's life is entirely the
result of the totality of one's choices, and so one is completely responsible for one's life,
"condemned" to be free, which is a source of great anxiety and so often hidden from
oneself.
Sartre was: - ANSWER a philosopher, novelist and playwright, a deeply polarizing figure
in his time, being greatly loved and greatly hated, and also a political activist who deeply
influenced left-wing politics of his day, changing the focus of the left from issues of class
to issues of consciousness and self-identity, including issues of gender and sexuality.
Sartre held to a form of: - ANSWER subjectivism, believing the world not to have
inherent meaning, holding that human consciousness entirely creates the world's
meaning, and believed consciousness creates a distance between the humanity and the
world not experienced by animal life.
in Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism, he explains that: - ANSWER man is in anguish
because of his great responsibility, and thinks it is very distressing that, as he sees it,
God does not exist, but also holds that his existentialism is the most optimistic of
positions.
in Existentialism Is a Humanism, Sartre frequently makes the statement: - ANSWER
"existence precedes essence," meaning that man initially receives existence without
inherent meaning and only afterward assigns himself, and the world, definition and
meaning.
Sartre believes, following Dostoevsky, that: - ANSWER if God does not exist, all things
are morally permissible, which he in fact (unlike Dostoevsky), takes to be the starting
point of his philosophical position.
Sartre's philosophy demands radical action since: - ANSWER he holds that each
individual is entirely responsible for who one is, and also holds that how one creates
oneself has universal implications for humanity as a whole.
Abstract Expressionism - ANSWER The movement, born in NYC (center of the art world
in postwar context), and the first US art movement to achieve international acclaim, was
nonrepresentational in form (abstract), and expressed the inner emotional life of the
artist (expressionist), expressing itself in "action painting."
Jackson Pollock - ANSWER ________ along with other abstract Expressionists, favored
chance and spontaneity in their art, seeking to express a state beyond deliberation,
control or structure, seeking to suppress conscious intention and to tap into and
express the world of the subconscious and its creative forces, which all shows the
