Question 1

What accounts for the rising popularity of Eastern philosophies during the last half of the twentieth century?

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Question 2

Write an essay that explores how rapid change and new developments in twentieth-century industry and technology led twentieth century political thinkers and artists to imagine the future of society.

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Question 3

Explain how Western ideas about science and technology came to dominate in regions such as India and China,where alternate traditions including philosophy,medicine,and religions had an equally rich history of explaining natural law.

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Question 4

How did the definition of what counted as "art" change with technological and cultural developments in the twentieth century?

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Question 5

What effect did developments in psychology and anthropology have on art?

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Question 6

Why did a reaction against Western science take hold in the second half of the twentieth century?

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Question 7

How was the art world affected by the new ideas and discoveries of science?

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Question 8

What is cultural relativism,and how has it influenced and been influenced by studies in anthropology and psychology?

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Question 9

How did the transformation of Western science affect art and the human sciences?

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Question 10

How was Western science transformed during the twentieth century?

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Question 11

Compare the role of philosophy today with the role it played in the axial age.Has the usefulness of philosophy changed since 500 B.C.E?

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Question 12

What were the major developments in Western philosophy,and how did philosophy and linguistics intersect during the twentieth century?

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Quiz 27: The Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science and the World