July 20th Chapters 27-28
and Chapter 17-20 questions
Don Enss
Chapter 27. Triumph
of the Will: Nietzsche and the Death of Reason.
1. According
to Herman, what did both Plato and Aristotle assume was man’s most important
mission and what was the surest guide for doing it?
2. What
is Zeno’s paradox regarding the race between Achilles and the tortoise?
3. What
is élan vital?
4. Bertrand
Russell came to consider this individual as perhaps the greatest intellect in
his day. He was a student of Russell’s yet his name is not mentioned in
Russell’s The History of Western
Philosophy. Dr. Martyn Oliver stated that Russell never fully recovered
from his student’s comprehensive destruction of the idea that a pure
philosophical theory of knowledge was possible. The impact of William James on
this individual was decisive. Who was
this mysterious philosopher?
Chapter 28. Common
Sense Nation: Plato, Aristotle, and American Exceptionalism.
1. What
did James Madison conclude was the best way to preserve liberty in a modern
society?
2. According
to Herman, what was the official creed of the American Republic?
3.
What
did Daniel Coit Gilman, first president of John Hopkins University, say was the
goal of a university?
4.
What
is the intellectual creed that William James believed that Americans needed?
Chapter 17-20 A
Philosophy of Walking
1. Who
was Gérard de Nerval and what happened at the end of his last walk?
2. According
to Gros, what are the three important aspects of walking?
3. Why
is the charm of the outings by children lost by adults?
4.
Why did most women of spirit love walking
in the Tuileries Garden?
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