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Western Culture
Review: History of Western Thought
Review by Ruth Anderson
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1) What are the two contrasting foundational principles of Western thought?
– Greek philosophy (search for truth)
– Jewish and Christian religions
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2) Ancient Greece was the Birthplace of ideas like what?
– Democracy– Geometry– Sickness having natural causes
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3) What lasting contribution did Socrates make to Western thinking?
– Critical Philosophy: being willing to call everything into question
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4) What lasting contribution did Plato make to Western thinking?
– He asked:
What is reality is made of?
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How do we know what we know?
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5) What lasting contribution did Aristotle make to Western thinking?
– He created a system of deductive logic.
– He tried to explain why things happen the way they do, based on what we already know.
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6) What are three reasons ancient Greece was the source of so many ideas?
– The alphabet– Overseas trading– Decentralization
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7) What idea came out of the Jewish and Christian religions?
– Nature and human nature need to be controlled and subordinated
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8) How did Ancient Greek culture pursue truth?
– Through thinking and questioning
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9) How did Christian Religion pursue truth?
– Through faith in God
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10) What did the Romans want to do to the world?
– Make it Roman
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11) Who could use an area the Roman army had rebuilt?
– Everyone, whether Roman or not
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12) What contributions did the Romans make to Western Culture?
– political structure – concepts of legal administration – and the Catholic Church.
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13) What was one of the main points of the Magna Carta?
– The king had to obey the laws he created
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14) What was one result of the Black Death?
– It resulted in a labour shortage
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15) What is Humanism?
– A philosophy stressing the importance of humanity rather than the supernatural
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16) When did classical authority start to be questioned?
– During the Renaissance
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17) What can history be seen as?
– The story of conflict between interest groups
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18) What does Adam Smith’s theory of the "invisible hand" of the market say?
– That the pursuit of individual interest produces a collective good for society
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