UGS 303 Bonevac Midterm Exam
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"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards
Bethlehem to be born?" - -Yeats
-". . .'tis the object of feeling, not of reason. It lies in yourself, not in the
object." - -Hume
-"Love of comfort is really not compatible with consideration for others." - -
Freud
-"It is not so much, then, for the purpose of undertaking to proclaim new
theories and principles that this annual celebration is maintained, but rather
to reaffirm and reestablish those old theories and principles which time and
the unerring logic of events have demonstrated to be sound." - -Coolidge
-"Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.": - -Give. Be subdued. Be merciful.
-"As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man -- There are only four
things certain since Social Progress began...." - -Kipling
-"Decadence can find agents only when it wears the mask of progress." - -
Shaw
-"In every system of morality I have met with I have noticed that the
author ... suddenly surprises me by moving from propositions with the usual
copula 'is' (or 'is not') to ones that are connected by 'ought' (or 'ought not')."
- -Hume
-"...the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single
sentence: Abolition of private property." - -Marx
-"...the dream, in its inmost essence, is the fulfilment of a wish." - -Freud
-"Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you." - -Eliot
-"London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down" - -Eliot
-"The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions
determining their production." - -Marx
-"God is dead! God remains dead! And we killed him! - -Nietzsche
, -"If the XIXth century was the century of the individual (liberalism implies
individualism) we are free to believe that this is the "collective" century, and
therefore the century of the State." - -Mussolini
-"Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which
you must see the world." - -Shaw
-"We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has
broken away from the past." - -Wilson
-"Amory had grown up to a thousand books, a thousand lies; he had listened
eagerly to people who pretended to know, who knew nothing." - -Fitzgerald
-"I used to say, when I had to do with the administration of an educational
institution, that I should like to make the young gentlemen of the rising
generation as unlike their fathers as possible. Not because their fathers
lacked character or intelligence or knowledge or patriotism, but because
their fathers, by reason of their advancing years and their established
position in society, had lost touch with the processes of life; they had
forgotten what it was to begin; they had forgotten what it was to rise; they
had forgotten what it was to be dominated by the circumstances of their life
on their way up from the bottom to the top, and, therefore, they were out of
sympathy with the creative, formative and progressive forces of society." - -
Wilson
-"It is true that there are dreams the manifest content of which is of the
most painful nature. But has anyone ever tried to interpret these dreams- to
discover their latent thought-content?" - -Freud
-"The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no
human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.Thus understood,
Fascism, is totalitarian...." - -Mussolini
-"I think we are in rats' alley Where the dead men lost their bones." - -Eliot
-"The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all
feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations." - -Marx
-"We have found that the dream represents a wish as fulfilled." - -Freud
-"The old political formulas do not fit the present problems; they read now
like documents taken out of a forgotten age. The older cries sound as if they
belonged to a past age which men have almost forgotten." - -Wilson
, -"Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create
institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source
by their very nature is in the people." - -Coolidge
-"Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth?
That is long ago. We are old folk." - -Remarque
-"...waiving the antitheses and approaching individually these men who
seemed to be the leaders, he was repelled by the discrepancies and
contradictions in the men themselves." - -Fitzgerald
-"The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by
which that burden can be shifted to the government." - -Coolidge
-"...every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of
significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the
psychic activities of the waking state." - -Freud
-"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules." - -Shaw
-"Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing
wildly back, shouting that they had found it...." - -Fitzgerald
-"Fascism [is] the resolute negation of the doctrine underlying so-called
scientific and Marxian socialism, the doctrine of historic materialism which
would explain the history of mankind in terms of the class struggle and by
changes in the processes and instruments of production, to the exclusion of
all else." - -Mussolini
-"They want to be told what to do." - -Dostoevsky
-"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man." - -Shaw
-"[It] applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing, it is the point where
the yes and the no and all the opposites meet, not solemnly in the castles of
human philosophies, but very simply at street corners, like dogs and
grasshoppers." - -dada
-What takes us from is to ought, according to Hume, is - -feeling
-An element of Mussolini's program: - -an 8-hour workday and minimum
wage
-The problem of normativity concerns the gap between - -is and ought
questions with Verified Answers
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards
Bethlehem to be born?" - -Yeats
-". . .'tis the object of feeling, not of reason. It lies in yourself, not in the
object." - -Hume
-"Love of comfort is really not compatible with consideration for others." - -
Freud
-"It is not so much, then, for the purpose of undertaking to proclaim new
theories and principles that this annual celebration is maintained, but rather
to reaffirm and reestablish those old theories and principles which time and
the unerring logic of events have demonstrated to be sound." - -Coolidge
-"Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.": - -Give. Be subdued. Be merciful.
-"As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man -- There are only four
things certain since Social Progress began...." - -Kipling
-"Decadence can find agents only when it wears the mask of progress." - -
Shaw
-"In every system of morality I have met with I have noticed that the
author ... suddenly surprises me by moving from propositions with the usual
copula 'is' (or 'is not') to ones that are connected by 'ought' (or 'ought not')."
- -Hume
-"...the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single
sentence: Abolition of private property." - -Marx
-"...the dream, in its inmost essence, is the fulfilment of a wish." - -Freud
-"Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you." - -Eliot
-"London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down" - -Eliot
-"The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions
determining their production." - -Marx
-"God is dead! God remains dead! And we killed him! - -Nietzsche
, -"If the XIXth century was the century of the individual (liberalism implies
individualism) we are free to believe that this is the "collective" century, and
therefore the century of the State." - -Mussolini
-"Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which
you must see the world." - -Shaw
-"We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has
broken away from the past." - -Wilson
-"Amory had grown up to a thousand books, a thousand lies; he had listened
eagerly to people who pretended to know, who knew nothing." - -Fitzgerald
-"I used to say, when I had to do with the administration of an educational
institution, that I should like to make the young gentlemen of the rising
generation as unlike their fathers as possible. Not because their fathers
lacked character or intelligence or knowledge or patriotism, but because
their fathers, by reason of their advancing years and their established
position in society, had lost touch with the processes of life; they had
forgotten what it was to begin; they had forgotten what it was to rise; they
had forgotten what it was to be dominated by the circumstances of their life
on their way up from the bottom to the top, and, therefore, they were out of
sympathy with the creative, formative and progressive forces of society." - -
Wilson
-"It is true that there are dreams the manifest content of which is of the
most painful nature. But has anyone ever tried to interpret these dreams- to
discover their latent thought-content?" - -Freud
-"The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no
human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.Thus understood,
Fascism, is totalitarian...." - -Mussolini
-"I think we are in rats' alley Where the dead men lost their bones." - -Eliot
-"The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all
feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations." - -Marx
-"We have found that the dream represents a wish as fulfilled." - -Freud
-"The old political formulas do not fit the present problems; they read now
like documents taken out of a forgotten age. The older cries sound as if they
belonged to a past age which men have almost forgotten." - -Wilson
, -"Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create
institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source
by their very nature is in the people." - -Coolidge
-"Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth?
That is long ago. We are old folk." - -Remarque
-"...waiving the antitheses and approaching individually these men who
seemed to be the leaders, he was repelled by the discrepancies and
contradictions in the men themselves." - -Fitzgerald
-"The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by
which that burden can be shifted to the government." - -Coolidge
-"...every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of
significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the
psychic activities of the waking state." - -Freud
-"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules." - -Shaw
-"Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing
wildly back, shouting that they had found it...." - -Fitzgerald
-"Fascism [is] the resolute negation of the doctrine underlying so-called
scientific and Marxian socialism, the doctrine of historic materialism which
would explain the history of mankind in terms of the class struggle and by
changes in the processes and instruments of production, to the exclusion of
all else." - -Mussolini
-"They want to be told what to do." - -Dostoevsky
-"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man." - -Shaw
-"[It] applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing, it is the point where
the yes and the no and all the opposites meet, not solemnly in the castles of
human philosophies, but very simply at street corners, like dogs and
grasshoppers." - -dada
-What takes us from is to ought, according to Hume, is - -feeling
-An element of Mussolini's program: - -an 8-hour workday and minimum
wage
-The problem of normativity concerns the gap between - -is and ought
