CSTU 101 Final Exam 120 Questions with Answers.
What Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material
terms? - Correct Answer Scientific Revolution
What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"? - Correct Answer da
Vinci
What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to? - Correct Answer Individual Biases
What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to? - Correct Answer Ambiguities of
Language
During the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what to what? - Correct
Answer scientific inquiry to philosophy of life.
What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through experience? - Correct Answer
Empiricism
European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase? -
Correct Answer Period of Conflict
The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"? - Correct
Answer 17th Century
The name Galileo is best associated with what period? - Correct Answer 1550-1770
You try three oranges out of a bag of ten and all three are sour. You conclude, therefore,
that the rest of the oranges are also sour. You have just reasoned ___________. - Correct
Answer Inductively
Both the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely
impacted by ____________. - Correct Answer Enlightenment
According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on how
the institutions of modern western culture have developed? - Correct Answer Roussaeu
, What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of? - Correct Answer
Social Perfection
Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects? - Correct Answer
Education, Politics, Society
What great writer, and somewhat of a philosopher, stated that God was a construct of
human imagination made because we need a moral standard in society, and he is looked
to and idolized by the secular world because he was so hostile to faith? - Correct Answer
Voltaire
Voltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely that... - Correct
Answer "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him".
What two terms both refer to the culture of the 18th century? - Correct Answer "Age of
Reason" and "Neoclassical Period"
T/F: It was commonly believed by the 18th-century philosophers that tradition is the
foundation of truth. - Correct Answer False
T/F: The Enlightenment philosophers had a high regard for the truth of religion. - Correct
Answer False
Modern political liberalism shares its underlying view of man with the philosophy of who? -
Correct Answer Rousseau
Who is not discussed in the text as an example of a "romantic hero"? - Correct Answer
Louis XIV
T/F: In many ways, the modern environmental movement can be traced back to the
romantic veneration of nature. - Correct Answer True
Wordsworth's sonnet, "The World Is Too Much with Us," best illustrates which concept? -
Correct Answer Nature on the Romantic imagination
T/F: Romanticism in the arts can be described as a triumph of "reason" over "passion." -
Correct Answer False
What Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material
terms? - Correct Answer Scientific Revolution
What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"? - Correct Answer da
Vinci
What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to? - Correct Answer Individual Biases
What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to? - Correct Answer Ambiguities of
Language
During the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what to what? - Correct
Answer scientific inquiry to philosophy of life.
What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through experience? - Correct Answer
Empiricism
European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase? -
Correct Answer Period of Conflict
The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"? - Correct
Answer 17th Century
The name Galileo is best associated with what period? - Correct Answer 1550-1770
You try three oranges out of a bag of ten and all three are sour. You conclude, therefore,
that the rest of the oranges are also sour. You have just reasoned ___________. - Correct
Answer Inductively
Both the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely
impacted by ____________. - Correct Answer Enlightenment
According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on how
the institutions of modern western culture have developed? - Correct Answer Roussaeu
, What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of? - Correct Answer
Social Perfection
Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects? - Correct Answer
Education, Politics, Society
What great writer, and somewhat of a philosopher, stated that God was a construct of
human imagination made because we need a moral standard in society, and he is looked
to and idolized by the secular world because he was so hostile to faith? - Correct Answer
Voltaire
Voltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely that... - Correct
Answer "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him".
What two terms both refer to the culture of the 18th century? - Correct Answer "Age of
Reason" and "Neoclassical Period"
T/F: It was commonly believed by the 18th-century philosophers that tradition is the
foundation of truth. - Correct Answer False
T/F: The Enlightenment philosophers had a high regard for the truth of religion. - Correct
Answer False
Modern political liberalism shares its underlying view of man with the philosophy of who? -
Correct Answer Rousseau
Who is not discussed in the text as an example of a "romantic hero"? - Correct Answer
Louis XIV
T/F: In many ways, the modern environmental movement can be traced back to the
romantic veneration of nature. - Correct Answer True
Wordsworth's sonnet, "The World Is Too Much with Us," best illustrates which concept? -
Correct Answer Nature on the Romantic imagination
T/F: Romanticism in the arts can be described as a triumph of "reason" over "passion." -
Correct Answer False
