Individualism
The historical period that authenticity came to be a moral ideal.
a) The Age of Enlightenment
b) The Post-Modern Age
c) The Romantic Era
d) The Renaissance
c) The Romantic Era
The meaning of the iron cage metaphor.
a) Entrenched Instrumental reason becomes inescapable
b) A system of economic enslavement
c) A moral dilemma with equally bad alternatives d) None of the above
a) Entrenched Instrumental reason becomes inescapable
The definition of ‘soft despotism'
a) A form of democracy in which people participate actively
b) A form of democracy in which people have little control
c) A system of brutal tyranny and oppression
d) The opposite of brutal despotism
b) A form of democracy in which people have little control
Alan Bloom’s reasoning as to why the lives of modern students are “narrower and flatter”.
a) Because they don’t read enough books
b) Because they don’t study philosophy
c) Because they are immature
d) Because they spend too much money
a) Because they don’t read enough books
The opposite of monological.
a) Illogical
b) Dialogical
c) Technological
d) Teleological
b) Dialogical
NOT a demand of authenticity.
a) Creation and construction
b) Deconstruction
c) Self-definition in dialogue
d) Opposition to rules
b) Deconstruction
NOT a form of trivialized instrumental reason.
a) The domination of nature
b) Bureaucratic rationality
c) Disengaged rationality
d) Medical practice that forgets the patient
c) Disengaged rationality
The form taken by soft despotism in modern society.
a) Atomism
b) Fragmentation
c) Soft relativism
d) Corruption
b) Fragmentation
Philosopher considered to be the father of nihilism.
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Georges Bataille
c) Michel Foucault
d) Jacques Derrida
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
Supporting point of the example of 3,732 hairs.
a) Self-definition depends on horizons of significance.
b) Being in touch with our moral feelings is crucial.
c) Individual identity cannot be based on physical appearance.
d) Certain numbers are sacred in different cultures.
a) Self-definition depends on horizons of significance.
Critical factor in the slide of authenticity to subjectivism.
a) Authenticity is closely linked with fine art.
b) Authenticity involves excessive instrumental reason.
c) Authenticity is a flawed moral ideal.
d) Authenticity is inherently susceptible to deviation.
d) Authenticity is inherently susceptible to deviation.
Which aspect of modern society does not contribute to atomism?
a) Entrepreneurship
b) Mobility
c) Social Science
d) Bureaucratic Institutions
c) Social Science
Ingredient of a free society connected with fragmentation.
a) Collective provision for need
b) Market allocation
c) Defence of individual rights
d) Democratic initiative and control
b) Market allocation
Thinker NOT an early source of the moral ideal behind instrumental reason.
a. Rene Descartes
b. John Locke
c. Max Weber
d. Francis Bacon
c. Max Weber
How do social science explanations of moral developments contribute to the inarticulate debate?
a) They are too subjective.
b) They trivialize moral values.
c) They exclude moral reasoning
d) They rely on soft relativism.
c) They exclude moral reasoning
Point Taylor illustrates with the art of Caspar David Friedrich.
a) Purely self-referential meaning in art
b) Lack of creativity in art
c) Publicly available orders of meaning art
d) Individual languages of expression in art
d) Individual languages of expression in art
The idea embodied in Francis Bacon’s words “to relieve the condition of mankind”.
a) A trivialization of instrumental reason
b) The moral ideal of authenticity
c) A trivialization of authenticity
d) The moral ideal behind instrumental reason
d) The moral ideal behind instrumental reason
Tends to thrive even in a fragmented society.
a) Formation of democratic majorities
b) Targeted political activism
c) Participation in elections
d) Economic freedom
b) Targeted political activism
Which of the following ideas is associated with Jean Jacques Rousseau?
a) Le sentiment de l’existence
b) Self-determining freedom
c) Morality is following the voice of nature.
d) All of the above
d) All of the above
The target of an ad hominem argument.
a) The argument
b) The person
c) The theory
d) The place
b) The person