Road to Freedom
The author of The Road to Freedom
Who is Arthur Brooks?
The experience of which major world event in his young life contributed to Ernest Hemingway's nihilist worldview?
What is World War 1?
Marcel Duchamp signed this object with a fake name and labeled it art.
What is a urinal?
The author of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
According to Dr. Munsil's lecture, just as there are no unicorns, there are no perfect ________ _______.
What are economic systems?
Francis' wife in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."
Who is Margot?
Roger Scruton says that beauty has been replaced by this goal in modern "art."
What is originality?
What brings the brief happy portion of Francis Macomber's life to an end?
What is his wife murdering him?
Rule of Law is fundamental to a ____ ______ economic system.
What is free market?
The name the main character of "Good Country People" gives herself.
Scruton says that the skill of the true artist is to show the ____ in light of the ideal.
What is "real?"
Complete Scruton's quote in relation to the nature of beauty: "Put usefulness first, and you lose it. Put beauty first, and what you do will be useful forever. It turns out that nothing is more _______ than the _______."
What is "Put usefulness first, and you lose it. Put beauty first, and what you do will be useful forever. It turns out that nothing is more useful than the useless."
Brooks argues that capitalism allows for what type of success?
What is earned success?
The word repeatedly used in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" that shows its nihilist worldview?
What is nothing?
Scruton claims that people have lost their faith in beauty, because they have lost their faith in _____.
What are ideals?
The person the old waiter in "A Clean, Well-lighted Place" is said to represent?
Who is Hemingway?
In her discussion on the moral arguments for capitalism, Dr. Munsil makes the key distinction between ___________ and acting out of ____-_______.
What are selfishness and self-interest?
The literary style known for bleak, grotesque, over-drawn characters.
What is Southern Gothic?
The phrase used by architect Louis Sullivan, that claims that a building's utility should be considered over its appearance.
What is "form follows function?"
All of the characters in "A Clean, Well-lighted place" lack this.
What is a name?