Question 1

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 free association

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Question 2

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 quantum mechanics

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Question 3

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What critiques of modern society were posited by Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Bergson, and Sorel?

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Question 4

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 modernism

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Question 5

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 mass psychology

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Question 6

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. In what way did Emile Durkheim suggest that anomie of modern Western society might be corrected?

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Question 7

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 theory of relativity

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Question 8

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Daniel Bell has referred to art since the Renaissance as "a mirror of nature." How did artistic developments of the second half of the nineteenth century destroy this concept?

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Question 9

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 principle of uncertainty

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Question 10

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Compare and contrast Freud's ideas with the goals, values, and attitudes of the Enlightenment tradition.

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Question 11

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. In what ways did irrationalism constitute a challenge to the legacy of the Enlightenment in the Western tradition?

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Question 12

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).  
 Locate and label the homeland of Durkheim, Einstein, Freud, Heisenberg, Nietzsche, Picasso, and Sorel .

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Question 13

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What did Max Weber mean by "the disenchantment of the world," and what problems did he associate with secular rationality?

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Question 14

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Define irrationalism, and use specific evidence and examples to demonstrate its presence in Western culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Question 15

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 abstract art

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Question 16

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Scientific breakthroughs often have a tremendous impact on other fields. Discuss at least two major scientific developments of the twentieth century, and comment upon their influence on philosophical outlooks.

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Question 17

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 cubism

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Question 18

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 anomie

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Question 19

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Almost the moment it was created (by the introduction of universal manhood suffrage in many European states in the late nineteenth century), modern democracy came under attack from political theorists. What are some of the attacks described in this book? Which of them do you find convincing , and which do you not?

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Question 20

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Social thinkers diagnosed the ills of modernizing societies in various different ways in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What were the different diagnoses , and who was responsible for each one?

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Quiz 27: Modern Consciousness New Views of Nature Human Nature and the Arts

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? free association

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? quantum mechanics

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What critiques of modern society were posited by Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Bergson, and Sorel?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? modernism

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? mass psychology

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. In what way did Emile Durkheim suggest that anomie of modern Western society might be corrected?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? theory of relativity

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Daniel Bell has referred to art since the Renaissance as "a mirror of nature." How did artistic developments of the second half of the nineteenth century destroy this concept?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? principle of uncertainty

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Compare and contrast Freud's ideas with the goals, values, and attitudes of the Enlightenment tradition.

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. In what ways did irrationalism constitute a challenge to the legacy of the Enlightenment in the Western tradition?

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Locate and label the homeland of Durkheim, Einstein, Freud, Heisenberg, Nietzsche, Picasso, and Sorel .

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What did Max Weber mean by "the disenchantment of the world," and what problems did he associate with secular rationality?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Define irrationalism, and use specific evidence and examples to demonstrate its presence in Western culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? abstract art

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Scientific breakthroughs often have a tremendous impact on other fields. Discuss at least two major scientific developments of the twentieth century, and comment upon their influence on philosophical outlooks.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? cubism

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? anomie

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Social thinkers diagnosed the ills of modernizing societies in various different ways in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What were the different diagnoses , and who was responsible for each one?