Background
Philosophy Descriptions
Anglo-Saxon Literature
Postmodern Literature
Philosophy Quotes
100
449 AD
What is Anglo Saxon Conquest? Invaded by German tribes? Viking?s
100
self is the only thing that can be known and verified
What is solipsism?
100
sorrowful songs that mourn the death of heroes
What is elegiac poetry? elegy?
100
Time period when it began
What is WWII?
100
I alone exist!
What is solipsism?
200
1066
What is Norman Conquest? Battle of Hastings?
200
People are free to create their own meaning in life
What is existentialism?
200
anyone who survives the leader, must not retreat from battle simply because the leader has fallen
What is comitatus?
200
adopting an entire story line from another book and retelling it is referred to as this term
What is intertextuality?
200
Feel the wall. Is it not hard?
What is empiricism?
300
The name England comes from combining these two words
What is Angles and Land?
300
present moment reigns above all else
What is metaphysical position?
300
value of human life, paid upon that person's death
What is wergild?
300
excess and redundancy in writing
What is maximalism?
300
The state is an organization of violence, a monopoly in what is pleased to call legitimate violence.
What is Machiavellian?
400
The four Anglo Saxon texts that still exist in written manuscript
What is Beowulf, the wanderer, the seafarer, Venerable Beder's History?
400
after establishing power, you must do whatever necessary to maintain that power
What is Machiavellian?
400
a mid-line break in poetry
What is caesura?
400
man is monster, monster is man is an example of which tenet of postmodernism?
What is blurs lines between low and high culture?
400
nihil ex nihilo
What is nihilism?
500
type of religion vikings practiced
What is Fatalistic Religion?
500
knowledge from sensory experiences?
What is empiricism?
500
compound word used to name a person, place or thing
What is Kenning?
500
one additional characteristic of postmodern literature
What is moral relativism? mocks the idea of meaning?
500
God does not exist. Seek out Gold and sit on it.
What is existentialism?
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