CSTU 101 Quiz 8 - Already Graded 100

* From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” In the American Western culture, our coins describe three of the values that provide the foundation that holds American culture together, as well as unites us. You can think of these like a three-legged stool. If you remove any leg the stool will fall. Which of these is not one of the three? * In philosophical terms, Karl Marx most closely matches up with whom? * For him, the way people made a living, their “means of production,” determined their beliefs and institutions. He based his worldview on the class struggle between the bourgeois vs the proletariat. * Whose sonnet, “The World Is Too Much with Us,” which mourns a world so overwhelmed with materialism that it may lose its spiritual qualities. * Between 1750 and 1850 England’s economic structure changed drastically as the nation shifted from an agrarian society to modern _________________. * From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” Massive intellectual changes have shaped and reshaped our culture since the dawn of the Enlightenment. At the heart of this great intellectual shift is _______________. * The Middle Modern World would be considered which dates? * The English philosopher who argued that evolution occurred not only in nature, but in human institutions as well. * Who helped set the initial stages of the Romanticism with his inspirational Social Contract. With the ringing proclamation: “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”. * The so called “War to end all Wars.” * Although he did not consider himself a Romantic poet, he is remembered for a classic Romantic quote: “Each man is meant to represent humanity in his own way, combining its elements uniquely”. * He was an atheistic existentialist quite unlike Nietzsche, and arrived at his conclusions using logic. He contended that the idea of God was self-contradictory, that the man called Christ could not be both divine and human because the terms are mutually exclusive. Lived from . * Perhaps more than any other period, the Romantic era was expressed as well in literature as in music and the visual arts. “Art,” wrote _____________, “is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” * Published years after their death. These 1,775 poems were written as if they were entries in a diary, the private thoughts of a solitary person who took just a little from society and shut out all the rest. Lived from -- * He believed in an all-encompassing Absolute, a world Spirit that expressed itself in the historical process. Basing his logic on the “triadic dialectic,” He stated that for every concept or force (thesis) there was its opposite idea (antithesis). He has a strong influence on Karl Marx. Lived from . * The early 20th century could be described by which representative phrase? * Which building illustrates the materialism and industrialization of 19th-century Europe? * A belief system in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative. Has influenced many cultural fields, including literary criticism, sociology, linguistics, architecture, visual arts, and music. * Those who own property and means of production; in Marxism, capitalists as a class. Marxism says they exploit the class called the Proletariat. * What event destroyed the early 1900’s optimism and progress? * Globalization does not appear to have created a global community. Indeed, one can argue it has made the possibility even more remote. * From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” Radical egalitarianism necessarily presses us towards collectivism because a powerful state is required to suppress the differences that freedom produces. * According to the video “A Prism for Christian Reflection on Popular Culture”, the presenter stated that as Christians, we can and should remove ourselves from Culture. * In many ways, the modern environmental movement could be traced back to the romantic veneration of nature. * Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” illustrates his love of puritanism during the late 19th century. * Whitman’s epic novel Moby Dick is still read by many. * There was a general calm over Europe with no revolutions from . * The Vietnam Memorial is a prime example of Neo-Classical architecture. * Existentialism was a philosophical movement that was formulated during the Second World War. * The battle cry of the French Revolution of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” was thrilling slogan which represented the reality of this Revolution.