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22 Cards in this Set
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Whois the author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” (1792)? |
MaryWollstonecraft |
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Whois the author of “The Communist Manifesto” (1848)? |
KarlMarx |
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Whatis the meaning of the word, “bourgeoisie”? |
Thebourgeoisie class, is the class, that is the owners of the means of production. |
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Whatis the meaning of the word, “proletariat”? |
Theproletariat is the worker class. |
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Whois the author of “Utilitarianism” (1863)?
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JohnStuart Mill
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Whatis the “principle of utility” in the 1863 treatise, “Utilitarianism”?
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Utilitarianismis the greatest good for the greatest number of people; the greatest goodprinciple or the greatest happiness principle.
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Whowrites an aphorism called “The Madman” in the 1882, 1887 book “The GayScience”?
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FriedrichNietzsche
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Whois the author of “Thus Spake Zarathustra” (1883-1885)?
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FriedrichNietzsche
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Whatare the three metamorphoses written about in the first chapter (just after theprologue) in “Thus Spake Zarathustra” (1883-1885)?
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Thecamel becomes a lion becomes a child.
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Whois the author of “The Will to Believe” (1897)?
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William James
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Whois the author of “Pragmatism: A New Name for some Old Ways of Thinking” (1907)?
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William James
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Whois the author of “The Question Concerning Technology” (first published in1954)?
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MartinHeidegger
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Whois the famous American poet that authored the wildly critical and free-flowingpoem “Howl” (1956)?
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AllenGinsberg
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Whois the author of “The Virtue of Selfishness” (1964)?
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AynRand
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Whois the author of “Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology” (1979)?
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AynRand
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Whois the author of “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays” (1942), about ademi-god cursed to roll a boulder up a mountain each day for all eternity justto watch it roll back down, symbolizing the futility and absurdity of life,from which the famous last line is, “We must imagine Sisyphus happy”?
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AlbertCamus
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Whois the author of “Existentialism is a Humanism” (1945)?
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Whatis the “First tenet of existentialism” according to Jean-Paul Sartre?
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Existenceprecedes essence
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Whatare the four relevant features/characteristics of existentialism according toJean-Paul Sartre?
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Anguish/Despair, Abandonment, Guilt, Meaninglessness
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Whois the author of “The Second Sex” (1949)?
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Simonede Beauvoir
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Whois the author of “A Defense of Abortion” (1979)?
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Judith Jarvis Thompson
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What comparison does Judith Jarvis Thomson use to analyzethe ethics of abortion?
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A violinist
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