Nietzsche | Marx | Freud | Kant and Mill |
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Nietzsche is a German philosopher. True or False
True
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What is the last sentence from The Communist Manifesto?
Working men of all countries, unite!
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Freud believed that religion was a reasonable and favorable goal for mankind? True or False
False
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What is the definition of the "Greatest Happiness Principle"?
Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness (10).
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Nietzsche announced the death of God in which book?
The Gay Science
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Who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Marx?
Friedrich Engels
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Mans suffering comes from which three areas?
1.The human body
2.The world 3.Social Relations (44) |
What is the difference between a categorical imperative and a hypothetical imperative?
“If the action is represented as good in itself, and hence as necessary in a will which of itself conforms to reason as the principle of the will, then the imperative is categorical” (Kant, 25)
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What two philosophers did Nietzsche refer to as symptoms of decay and anti greek?
Socrates and Plato (12)
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Name 3 services that should be free, according to the "Demands of the Communist Party in Germany"
Education, legal services, transportation.
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How did women lay the foundation of civilization?
Through their love: both sexual and familial (84)
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What are the differences between Kant' idea and that of Mill?
1. Non-consequentialist vs. consequentialist
2. Act without purposes vs. motivaiton |
Which equation proposed by Socrates does not work for Nietzsche?
Reason = Virtue = Happiness
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What is the "single, unconscionable freedom" that the bourgeoisie has set?
Free trade
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Define Civilization. Give its two main purposes
Civilization is the whole sum of the achievements and regulations distinguishing the lives of man from their animal ancestors.
The two purposes of civilization are to protect men against nature and to adjust their mutual relations |
What is Mill's take on sacrificing for the common good?
Those who sacrifice to increase the amount of happiness in the world should be praised, but not regarded as an example of how to act.
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What is Nietzsche's attitude towards morality?
“Morality is just an interpretation of certain phenomena, or speaking more precisely, a misinterpretation.” (38)
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The proletarians "cannot become masters of the productive forces." Therefore, their mission is to...
"Destroy all previous securities for, and insurances of, individual property" (72)
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What are Freud's two main objections to universal love as a highest standpoint for man to reach?
1. A love that does not discriminate forfeits a part of its own value
2. Not all men are worthy of love. (82) |
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