Philosophy 57

Question 0

Within a Darwinian frame of reference, what was and wasn’t man?

Answer 0

Was highly successful animal, was not God’s noble creation with a divine destiny

Question 1

What permeated the pre-modern world?

Answer 1

Spiritual, mythic, theistic, and other humanely meaningful categories

Question 2

What did Freud do to the rationalism of the Enlightenment?

Answer 2

Represented a brilliant culmination of the Enlightenment projection, bringing even the human consciousness under the light of rational investigation

Question 3

What might the elite of Western civilization recognize?

Answer 3

Itself in Marx’s dark portrait as a self-deceiving bourgeois imperialist oppressor

Question 4

What was the consequence of the global explorers?

Answer 4

Expanded European’s geographical knowledge, and with it their exposure to other cultures and histories

Question 5

“Macrocosmic dimensions” forced what?

Answer 5

Forced upon man’s awareness a disturbingly humble sense of his own relative minuteness in both time and space

Question 6

What happened to res cogito and res extensa?

Answer 6

The Cartesian program of mechanistic analysis began to overcome even the division between res cogito and res extensa