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Liberty University Govt 200 Ferdon FinalUnderstand the nature and role of 'mediating institutions' relative to individual self-government, and how they do not presuppose the public realm can be solely identified with the state. - correct answer ... What is the nature of English Common Law? What was it informed by? How was it originally established? - correct answer English common law is law that is common to all but is orally solidified. It was originally established through various court ...

Van Allen GOVT 200 Exam 2What is the distilled essence of the Christian worldview relative to its answers to the four philosophical dilemmas? - correct answer Biblical supernatural ontology, Biblical revelation epistemology, Biblical theistic axiology, and Kingdom of God teleology. What is the significance of St. Augustine of Hippo? - correct answer He wrote the City of God. Consider the discusison on the reformation and the translation of scriptures and be prepared to identify the institu...

CSTU 101 - Exam 1 (Liberty U)Culture - correct answer What we make of the world Western culture - correct answer A set of shared culture generally in Europe and related areas Humanities - correct answer What makes us human Epic - correct answer A long narrative recounting heroism, centered on the hero with a sense of national identity Golden Age of Athens (Greece) - correct answer • Persian Wars - Destruction of Athens by the Persians, followed eventually by Greek victory • Pe...

CSTU 101 FINAL EXAM - correct answer When was the Age of Industry? Materialism - correct answer What is the belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all problems, and create human happiness? Georg Hegel - correct answer What German and philosophical idealist created the idea that reality is grounded in the working of the mind? Georg Hegel - correct answer Who was responsible for the phrase, "The real is rational. The rational is real"? Dialectic - cor...

CSTU 101 FinalIndustrialism - correct answer -first revolution takes place in Great Britain -second revolution around the world materialism - correct answer the belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all problems, and create human happiness George Hegel - correct answer -German and philosophical ideal "workings of the mind" -"the real is rational, the rational is real" -"dialectic" Karl Marx - correct answer -wrote Das Kapital and The Communist...

CSTU 101-Quiz 5-Chp 14 Synthesis - correct answer Different cultural elements—values and institutions—will come together to synthesize something completely new, and the "something new" that's being created here is obviously medieval culture. 3 distinct backgrounds being synthesized in the Middle Ages: - correct answer 1) Christian Background 2) heritage leftover from fall of Roman Empire- political and legal institutions(same latin language) 3) the influx of Germanic and Celtic tr...

CSTU 101-Quiz 6-Chp 18painting "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli in 1482 - correct answer there is a revival of interest in classical themes (able to explore new styles and subject matter with a completely new set of ideas and values) -Venus is a classical goddess ~This is a depiction of a mythological birth, and here she emerges from the ocean riding onto land on an open clamshell. comparing Virgin Mary with Venus (similarities) - correct answer 1) oval shape to the head 2) sli...

CSTU 101-Quiz 7-Chp 19The Renaissance - correct answer The Renaissance was best understood as a kind of wave that swept from South to North over these 200 years. () -started in the South, with Italy (1400) -as we move North-started at 1600-see Shakespeare writing plays-Northern Re. occurs at dead end of the "Renaissance period" Comparison of North and South (Italy) Renaissance: 1) South - correct answer -Italian Renaissance=more secular in tone and nature, more humanistic, subject matter ...

CSTU 101-Quiz 7-Chp 20seventeenth century - correct answer The seventeenth century is sometimes called "a century of genius." ~This was the century of Milton and Galileo, Cervantes and Descartes. -Rise of the Scientific Revolution Scientific Revolution - correct answer -1550 (year Copernicus said we are just a planet going around the sun) "New Science" -1700- life of Isaac Newton (greatest scientist of western history along with Einstein) whole mechanical model of universe with phys...

CSTU Quiz 4Scholars believe that the Minoan civilization was almost nearly destroyed by a natural disaster in which year? - correct answer 1628 B.C. Which Old Testament nation may have had a connection to the Minoan civilization? - correct answer Philistines Which of the following Old Testament people was Indo-European? - correct answer Hittites What was the critical type of evidence that allowed historians to reconstruct the Indo-European people? - correct answer linguistic evidence ...