June 29 Chapters 21-22
and Chapter 5-8 questions
Don Enss
Chapter 21. Aristotle
in a Periwig: The Culture of the Enlightenment
1. According
to Herman, “virtually every eighteenth-century artistic endeavor from poetry to
music and painting was governed by rules drawn from Aristotle’s __________ and
_________________?
2. What
was one of the two things John Adams said he learned from reading Plato?
3. According
to Lord Kames, human history could be divided into four distinct stages of
growth. What are they?
4. Locke
argued that we are not born with any innate ideas or knowledge about anything.
Everything we know, we have to learn from outside ourselves. The mind is (in
Locke’s most famous metaphor) a __________ ___________, a ___________
____________?
Chapter 22. Starting
Over: Plato, Rousseau, and Revolution
1. What
did Rousseau do on a day in 1749 that Frederic Gros say that Nietzsche and
Thoreau also thought one should do? It had a profound influence on his thinking
and writing.
2. What
were the two simple propositions that Rousseau’s critique of Plato boil down
to?
3.
According
to Kant, “the task ahead lies in creating institutions that will reflect our
true moral nature, the voice of conscience that recognizes certain moral
actions as an urgent duty without room for reflection or compromise.” He termed
that voice the _____________?
4.
Why
did the ordinary people resist Rousseau’s evangelism?
Chapter 5-8 A
Philosophy of Walking
1. What
is the illusion of speed?
2. Gros
finds in Rimbaud that sense of walking as __________?
3. Why
does Gros say that it is impossible to be alone when walking?
4.
“Thoreau observed repeatedly that silence
usually taught him more than the company of others. Just as there are several
solitudes, so there are several silences.” What were some of the silences that
Gros listed?
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