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GOVT 200 Questions and Correct Answers
Be able to identify the correct chronology of the appearance of the
following worldviews: Rationalism, Romanticism, and Process
Philosophy. Ans: 1. Rationalism
2. Romanticism
3. Process Philosophy
Be able to identify the mode of civil government, economics, and
law, under the worldviews of Biblical Christianity, Rationalism,
Romanticism. Ans: Biblical Christianity
Rationalism
Romanticism
Biblical Christianity Ans: Holy commonwealth, Free enterprise Law
comes from God.
Romanticism Ans: Absolutized the nation-state, Nationalism,
Libertarianism.
Rationalism Ans: Communism, Totalitarianism, Law is reason
Why did Romanticism, as a worldview, become a prominent
perspective upon the whole of life? Ans: Romanticism is a reaction
aainst rationalism: Shift fro mthe Rational to the Non-Rational:
Matter of Heart and Mind apart from reason.
Something distinct of the mind and heart
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What is the nature of the epistemological shift relative to
Romanticism? Ans: From Faith in Reason to Faith in Intuition (non-
reason-subjectivity)
Why were Romantics so concerned about the absolutizing of the
human intellect and the scientific method as a means of coming to
know true truth in a final way? Ans: Romanticism was a reaction
against an absolutized human intellect and the mechanistic
natural order it led to -- there is no place for freedom as
everything is a result of cause and effect -- there is no significance!
We have the rise of 'autonomous freedom' or freedom without
restraints, and pessimism. Autonomous freedom replaces
autonomous reason.
Romantics assumed that men cannot live as if they were simply
machines and automatons, as if they were caught up in a
uniformity of cause and effect in a closed system universe. One
could not hold to this view of life while simultaneously attempting
to view man as free, having meaning, having values, sensing love
and emotion.
(1). Emphasis shifted from human reason to human subjectivity
and emotion. You could not hold to both of these (as absolutized)
simultaneously. Emotion, subjectivity is now enthroned as
opposed to reason.
What is the nature of the ontological and theological shifts of
Romanticism? Ans: {Transcendentalism} from Deism to Pantheism
-- a Pantheistic Ontology -- a new Romantic conception of God and
Human Nature.
What is meant by 'Transcendentalism' relative to the impact of
Romanticism upon the American mindset? Ans: a. Nature is
redefined, and no longer viewed as a mechanistic machine
operating under the immutable and indestructible laws of cause
and effect. [Nature is viewed as a 'organological' ; nature is now
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GOVT 200 Questions and Correct Answers
Be able to identify the correct chronology of the appearance of the
following worldviews: Rationalism, Romanticism, and Process
Philosophy. Ans: 1. Rationalism
2. Romanticism
3. Process Philosophy
Be able to identify the mode of civil government, economics, and
law, under the worldviews of Biblical Christianity, Rationalism,
Romanticism. Ans: Biblical Christianity
Rationalism
Romanticism
Biblical Christianity Ans: Holy commonwealth, Free enterprise Law
comes from God.
Romanticism Ans: Absolutized the nation-state, Nationalism,
Libertarianism.
Rationalism Ans: Communism, Totalitarianism, Law is reason
Why did Romanticism, as a worldview, become a prominent
perspective upon the whole of life? Ans: Romanticism is a reaction
aainst rationalism: Shift fro mthe Rational to the Non-Rational:
Matter of Heart and Mind apart from reason.
Something distinct of the mind and heart
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What is the nature of the epistemological shift relative to
Romanticism? Ans: From Faith in Reason to Faith in Intuition (non-
reason-subjectivity)
Why were Romantics so concerned about the absolutizing of the
human intellect and the scientific method as a means of coming to
know true truth in a final way? Ans: Romanticism was a reaction
against an absolutized human intellect and the mechanistic
natural order it led to -- there is no place for freedom as
everything is a result of cause and effect -- there is no significance!
We have the rise of 'autonomous freedom' or freedom without
restraints, and pessimism. Autonomous freedom replaces
autonomous reason.
Romantics assumed that men cannot live as if they were simply
machines and automatons, as if they were caught up in a
uniformity of cause and effect in a closed system universe. One
could not hold to this view of life while simultaneously attempting
to view man as free, having meaning, having values, sensing love
and emotion.
(1). Emphasis shifted from human reason to human subjectivity
and emotion. You could not hold to both of these (as absolutized)
simultaneously. Emotion, subjectivity is now enthroned as
opposed to reason.
What is the nature of the ontological and theological shifts of
Romanticism? Ans: {Transcendentalism} from Deism to Pantheism
-- a Pantheistic Ontology -- a new Romantic conception of God and
Human Nature.
What is meant by 'Transcendentalism' relative to the impact of
Romanticism upon the American mindset? Ans: a. Nature is
redefined, and no longer viewed as a mechanistic machine
operating under the immutable and indestructible laws of cause
and effect. [Nature is viewed as a 'organological' ; nature is now
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