Chapter 24-20th Century Liberalism Flashcards
What is someone who desires freedom from something or freedom to do something?
Liberal
What is the principle or practice of conserving (preserving) established traditions or institutions and opposing changes in them?
Conservatism
What is the most powerful conservative force through the ages?
Bible
What are the false philosophies such as Marxism and Darwinism which desires to strike down absolute truth and rebel against God called?
Pseudosciences
Who was the French philosopher who who created positivism?
Auguste Comte
What is the pseudoscience that states that nothing can be known except observable scientific “facts”?
Positivism
What is the term that was coined to refer to when scientists understood their own immutable “laws,” they could manipulate both nature and society and create an earthly utopia free from God and his laws, and was created by Auguste Comte?
“Sociology”
What is the desire to be free from absolute standards and morals, especially those of Scriptures?
Liberalism
Who was a prominent Austrian psychiatrist, who believed that man was a product of evolution and nothing more than a highly developed animal, and formulated a system known as psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
What system did Sigmund Freud formulate which says that subconscious physical drives or irrational fears determine a man’s actions?
Psychoanalysis
What three men developed behavioral psychology,
Ivan Pavlov
J. B. Watson
B. F. Skinner
What system did Ivan Pavlov, J. B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner formulate that denies man’s sinful nature by reducing man to the status of an animal or a medicine, and claims that education should consist of psychological “conditioning” giving man a tool for programming individuals to fit in with what the conditions define as the “good of society”?
Behavioral psychology
What is the philosophy that an idea or an action should be judged solely by its results, regardless of any moral or Scriptural considerations?
Pragmatism
What is the “anti-philosophy” which claims there is not truth or reality, forcing man to make his own meaning in an absurd world?
Existentialism
Who was the existentialist, Danish philosopher who taught that all man can do is take a “leap of faith” into the darkness of the “great unknown” in hope of achieving some kind of reality?
Soren Kierkegaard
Who was the existentialist, German philosopher who based his ideas on his declaration that “God is dead,” and according to him, without God there were no a so,ute values except “the will to power” and that whoever exercised the “will to power” would be free to create his own morals and reality and impose it upon others, something he would call “the superman”?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Who was an influential professor of education at the University of Chicago and at Columbia University, and advocated what came to be called “progressive education”?
John Dewey
John Dewey advocated what came to be called ________________, where he abandoned the teaching of moral absolutes and encouraged a permissive atmosphere in the classroom that allowed children to “follow their animal instincts” and to practice “self-expression”?
“Progressive education”
What kind of education emphasizes to pass on to each individual the knowledge and wisdom learned in previous generations, and to train each individual to use his abilities for the glory of God and for the edification of his fellow man?
Traditional education
What is the belief that matters of morality should be based on consideration of the well-being of mankind in this present life, to the exclusion of al, considerations drawn from belief in God or in a future existence?
Secularism
What is dependence upon man’s reasonings and feelings alone, with no respect for Gods authority, and is ultimately the worship of man?
Humanism
In 1933, a group of humanist leaders published a document called the _____________, which expressed point by point the “faith” of humanism.
Humanist Manifesto
What book proposed “a design fir a secular society on a planetary scale” and asserting that “traditional theism, especially faith in the prayer-hearing God… is an unproved and outmoded faith”?
Humanist Manifesto II
Because liberalists rejected biblical doctrines regarding a literal heaven and hell, man’s sinful nature, and salvation by faith in Jesus Christ, declaring that such beliefs were too “old-fashioned” for the “modern age,” liberalism is often called:
“Modernism”
Modernists viewed the church’s mission as one of social reform and political action, and this new message came to be known as the:
“Social gospel”
Who was the German theologian who developed a form of Christianity that emphasized social improvement instead of spiritual change?
Albrecht Ritschl