HUM 120 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Declaration of Independence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Legal document separating US from GB (Us
becomes independent from US)
Called out king of GB (George 3rd) as tyrant (right to abolish destructive governments) ie: imposing taxes
without consent, cutting off trade, refuse migration/population of states
Construction of rights and ideals (peace, alliances, commerce, war)
Foundation for new US government
moralistic therapeutic Deism (MTD) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Christian Smith (author)
Belief about being a good person, bettering yourself, being happy and feeling good about yourself,
Moralistic: Be a good person
Therapeutic: Do good things to feel good about yourself (be a good person because it makes you feel
good)
Deism: distant God, God will make sure nothing bad happens
Defacto, functional, practical, tacit: not a particular list of beliefs rather how you live it out.
Banality of evil - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Concept in Hannah Arendt's writing about Nazi germany
Reversal of right and wrong
lost temptation of sin (cause good is evil and evil is good, ie: tempted not to murder or to hate),
evil becomes commonplace as the conscience becomes reversed
Critique of enlightenment - you can be super intelligent and still be unbelievably evil
Natural selection - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Scientific concept, Darwinian theory
"selection" that occur in nature in which species with stronger/better genes survive, means for
preservation,
Species with less advantageous genes die off, survival of the fittest
Marxism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Political theory developed by karl marx
Envisions a society without classes
, Struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie
Everyone should benefit from their work
-proletariats must revolt
Eugenics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Attempt to improve human genetics by judging certain people as
inferior to breed
Related to:
Darwinian theory of natural selection
Nazi WW2 - Want of an ethnic German race, nostalgic
Valued German ethnic identity over the Jewish ethnic identity
Bokanovsky process - brave new world
Communism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Political theroy derived from karl marx
Government that seeks to create equality, classless society
No private property
Idea proposed by Karl Marx
Significance: seen as progress for society, where there is no need of state. Search for utopia apart from
God.
Relativism ? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rejection of objectivity,
Product of secularization
Nietzsche warns about this belief springing up when we deny the authority and morals of God
Treaty of Versailles - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅peace document signed june 28 1919, after WWI
Allies (France, Great Britain, russia, Italy, Japan) demand compensation from Germany
Germany is made to be guilty for war, but they have to accept it cause no one wants to or can go back to
war
Romanticism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Romanticism suggests reason has limits to understanding the
world
Declaration of Independence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Legal document separating US from GB (Us
becomes independent from US)
Called out king of GB (George 3rd) as tyrant (right to abolish destructive governments) ie: imposing taxes
without consent, cutting off trade, refuse migration/population of states
Construction of rights and ideals (peace, alliances, commerce, war)
Foundation for new US government
moralistic therapeutic Deism (MTD) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Christian Smith (author)
Belief about being a good person, bettering yourself, being happy and feeling good about yourself,
Moralistic: Be a good person
Therapeutic: Do good things to feel good about yourself (be a good person because it makes you feel
good)
Deism: distant God, God will make sure nothing bad happens
Defacto, functional, practical, tacit: not a particular list of beliefs rather how you live it out.
Banality of evil - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Concept in Hannah Arendt's writing about Nazi germany
Reversal of right and wrong
lost temptation of sin (cause good is evil and evil is good, ie: tempted not to murder or to hate),
evil becomes commonplace as the conscience becomes reversed
Critique of enlightenment - you can be super intelligent and still be unbelievably evil
Natural selection - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Scientific concept, Darwinian theory
"selection" that occur in nature in which species with stronger/better genes survive, means for
preservation,
Species with less advantageous genes die off, survival of the fittest
Marxism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Political theory developed by karl marx
Envisions a society without classes
, Struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie
Everyone should benefit from their work
-proletariats must revolt
Eugenics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Attempt to improve human genetics by judging certain people as
inferior to breed
Related to:
Darwinian theory of natural selection
Nazi WW2 - Want of an ethnic German race, nostalgic
Valued German ethnic identity over the Jewish ethnic identity
Bokanovsky process - brave new world
Communism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Political theroy derived from karl marx
Government that seeks to create equality, classless society
No private property
Idea proposed by Karl Marx
Significance: seen as progress for society, where there is no need of state. Search for utopia apart from
God.
Relativism ? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rejection of objectivity,
Product of secularization
Nietzsche warns about this belief springing up when we deny the authority and morals of God
Treaty of Versailles - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅peace document signed june 28 1919, after WWI
Allies (France, Great Britain, russia, Italy, Japan) demand compensation from Germany
Germany is made to be guilty for war, but they have to accept it cause no one wants to or can go back to
war
Romanticism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Romanticism suggests reason has limits to understanding the
world
