CSTU 101-Quiz 8-Chp
24 questions and
answers 2025-2026
main themes that lead to the modern secular age: - answer the main
themes again that we've been following: rationalism, humanism, and
materialism.
Modern World thinking on war - answer Having expended so much effort
to create this modern world, people believed that we would not possibly
stoop to war, because war is so destructive. (therefore they concluded
that it was not reasonable to go to war-man would agree to stop fighting)
-naive to think man is on some track towards perfection
dominant view in 20th century - answer to think that just bettering our
material condition will translate into bettering our moral condition. (wrong
to think this)
~World War I was so devastating in its consequences that it pretty much
shook that optimism to the foundation
The Great World War - answer -more devastating than World War II in the
cultural psyche of the western world.
-showed worst aspects of *nationalism*-people on opposite sides of the
trenches were fighting just because of the nation that they belonged to.
-also see worst aspects of *materialism*-
Just when material prosperity was looking like the answer to a better life,
it enables the production of killing machines-leads to intellectual
disillusionment.
24 questions and
answers 2025-2026
main themes that lead to the modern secular age: - answer the main
themes again that we've been following: rationalism, humanism, and
materialism.
Modern World thinking on war - answer Having expended so much effort
to create this modern world, people believed that we would not possibly
stoop to war, because war is so destructive. (therefore they concluded
that it was not reasonable to go to war-man would agree to stop fighting)
-naive to think man is on some track towards perfection
dominant view in 20th century - answer to think that just bettering our
material condition will translate into bettering our moral condition. (wrong
to think this)
~World War I was so devastating in its consequences that it pretty much
shook that optimism to the foundation
The Great World War - answer -more devastating than World War II in the
cultural psyche of the western world.
-showed worst aspects of *nationalism*-people on opposite sides of the
trenches were fighting just because of the nation that they belonged to.
-also see worst aspects of *materialism*-
Just when material prosperity was looking like the answer to a better life,
it enables the production of killing machines-leads to intellectual
disillusionment.
