GOVT 200 Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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GOVT 200 Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Question: Be able to identify the correct chronology of the appearance of the
following worldviews: Rationalism, Romanticism, and Process Philosophy.
Answer: 1. Rationalism
2. Romanticism
3. Process Philosophy


Question:
Be able to identify the mode of civil government, economics, and law, under
the worldviews of Biblical Christianity, Rationalism, Romanticism.
Answer: Biblical Christianity
Rationalism
Romanticism


Question:
Biblical Christianity
Answer: Holy commonwealth, Free enterprise Law comes from God.


Question:
Romanticism
Answer: Absolutized the nation-state, Nationalism, Libertarianism.


Question:
Rationalism

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Answer: Communism, Totalitarianism, Law is reason


Question:
Why did Romanticism, as a worldview, become a prominent perspective upon
the whole of life?
Answer: 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


Question:
What is the nature of the epistemological shift relative to Romanticism?
Answer: From Faith in Reason to Faith in Intuition (non-reason-subjectivity)


Question:
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?