Factual question: In response to the Festival of Reason, Robespierre repudiated the atheistic philosophy of the prominent French philosophers and himself hosted:
A) the Festival of French Pride
B) the Festival of the Revolution
C) the Festival of Laissez-Faire
D) the Festival of the Supreme Being
(Answer: D.)
Discussion question: The initial aimed of the French Revolution was the reformation of government and the reconstruction of the social classes. However, as the phases of the revolution progressed, more aim in the mass movement geared against that of religion. Why do you think this happened?
Topic 2: Soren Kierkegaard
Factual question: What did Kierkegaard say people of his time would view Abraham as if they looked as him strictly as "a man today who was taking his son someplace to murder him because a voice told him to do it?"
A) Moral, because he followed the belief and commandment of his religion and God
B) Insane and mad
C) a father of resignation, not of faith
D) Both B and C
(Answer: D.)
Discussion: Kierkegaard, in response to the story of Abraham, said that morals cannot come from that which is communally approved. Where then do morals come from?
Topic 3: The Poets
Factual question: Percy Shelley sad that God was invented by those:
A) in power to control the masses
B) creepy old guys that lived thousands of years ago
C) searching for a means to explain the universe and the morals found throughout life
D) nobody; Percy was a firm believer in God and thus thought that nobody created God. God is the Alpha and the Omega
(Answer: A.)
Discussion: The poets advocated free thought and thus rejected religion because they claimed that religion tainted the reasoning necessary for free-thinkers. Is this really the case, or can free-thinking and religion mix together?
TOPIC 1:
ReplyDeleteFactual Question: The months of July and August are named after who?
Answer: Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar
Discussion: The Covention, the elected body governing France at the time, decided to make a new calendar that renamed all the days after animals, vegetables, and herbs... Can you really just make a new calendar because you want to? And people actually abide by it? What are the long term affects of that?
TOPIC 2:
Factual Question: What biblical figures/story did Kierkegaard use to explain his doubting?
Answer: the story of Abraham and Isaac
Discussion Question: The first sentence of the section says, "Soren Kierkegaard's is a doubt that yearns to believe." . . . . . Are you really a doubter if you want to believe? Or is the definition of a doubter someone who completely 100% doubts/questions things?
TOPIC 3:
Factual Question: The three major poet figures of Transcendentalism were ___, ___, and ___.
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller.
Discussion Question: Are the transcendentalist notions of appreciating nature and focusing on spirituality but not religion realistic notions? Could we use them today?