Nietzsche Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Postmodernismtrue - correct answer t/f: a reaction to the evils of modernism true - correct answer t/f: views truth claims as political power plays social construct - correct answer what does postmodernism view truth as? false - correct answer t/f: ultimate knowledge is accessible. false (metanarratives are sus) - correct answer t/f: postmodernism accepts metanarratives as truth after modernism - correct answer what does postmodernism mean? Modernism - correct answer what was t...

Caspar David Friedrich Painted The Wreck of Hope or the Sea of Ice, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, Monk by the Sea Eugene Delacroix Painted Liberty Leading the People which expressed openly his support for republican causes. Collision of Moorish Horsemen, The Death of Sardanapalus Romanticism Movement of the early 19th century that stressed passion, emotion, and exotic settings with dramatic action; response to the rationalism of Neoclassicism. Nationalism A variant of p...

IB Philosophy - Core Theme SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT ANSWERS Allegory of the cave (Plato's cave) - ANSWER To be liberated from the cave we must precede into the light, dismissing appearances as mere illusion and seek true knowledge. This is when we reach our goal ('telos') Normative - ANSWER how we should be/what we should do The Tri-partite soul (Plato) - ANSWER Reason (control), Spirit (emotions like pride and courage), Appetite (bodily and wordly desires) The Materialist view (H...

Post-Modernism VocabularyModernism - correct answer The Modernist period is defined as the period during and after World War I, during which a perceptual void existed in human society and in order to fill this gap, literary greats such as Picasso began to use art, literature, and music as a manner in which to fill this void and draw attention away from the destruction. Postmodernism - correct answer The Post-Modernist period is defined as the period after WWII, directly after the modernist pe...

Postmodernism Test Premodern- - correct answer > to 1600 AD Revelation is the foundation Modern- - correct answer 1600 to 1960 AD Science comes to forefront Postmodern- - correct answer 1960 to ? Experience is most important John Stonestreet speaks of the Wexner Center of Performing Arts, the first postmodern building. On which University campus is this building located? - correct answer The Ohio State The "Godfather" of the postmodernists, who proclaimed in the Parable of the ...

Postmodernism TestPostmodernism is a skeptical worldview founded as a reaction to - correct answer Modernism What Postmodernism is suspicious of - correct answer Metanarratives Postmodernism teaches that ultimate reality is - correct answer Inaccessible According to Postmodernism, what is a social construct - correct answer Knowledge Postmodernism believes truth-claims are what - correct answer Political power plays Modernism followed what time period - correct answer The Enlighte...

Post-Modernism Vocabulary Question and answers 100% correct 2023/2024Modernism - correct answer The Modernist period is defined as the period during and after World War I, during which a perceptual void existed in human society and in order to fill this gap, literary greats such as Picasso began to use art, literature, and music as a manner in which to fill this void and draw attention away from the destruction. Postmodernism - correct answer The Post-Modernist period is defined as the period...

Allegory of the cave (Plato's cave) - CORRECT ANSWER To be liberated from the cave we must precede into the light, dismissing appearances as mere illusion and seek true knowledge. This is when we reach our goal ('telos') Normative - CORRECT ANSWER how we should be/what we should do The Tri-partite soul (Plato) - CORRECT ANSWER Reason (control), Spirit (emotions like pride and courage), Appetite (bodily and wordly desires) The Materialist view (Hobbes) - CORRECT ANSWER Every can...

SIX THEMES OR PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Human nature 2. Personhood 3. Mind and body distinction 4. The self and the other 5. Freedom 6. Identity Rational theory of human nature features versus irrational theory features (And key philosophers) - CORRECT ANSWER Rationalism claims that human nature is objective, autonomous, self-evident, able to be known, and based on self-control. It's major philosophers are Plato and Descartes. Chariot analogy. Irrationalism or per...

Descartes - Answer- This philosopher employe the dream conjecture and the evil demon conjecture as a method to doubt his own existence Camus - Answer- "I see that man going back down with a heavy yet measured step toward the torment of which he will never know the end. That hour like a breathing-space which returns as surely as his suffering, that is the hour of consciousness Hobbes - Answer- This philosopher imagined that life in a state of nature would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutis...