Modern Philosophers

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1. Who is known as the "Father of Existentialism"? Georg Wilhelm Hegel Soren Kierkegaard Friedrich Nietzsche Sigmund Freud

2. A "dialectic process" for the analysis of why/how things in history happen is often incorrectly attributed to Georg Hegel, and said to have been expanded on my Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. What are the steps of this method? protagonist, antagonist, mediator cause, effect, war action, reaction, resolution thesis, antithesis, synthesis

3. Nietzsche believed there existed a powerful individual who lived for self-gratification and nothing else. Who did he say this being was? the superman the existentialist man the extraordinary man a god

4. Which philosopher said "Fear is the mother of morality"? Fredrich Engels Sigmund Freud Friedrich Nietzsche Karl Marx

5. Who were the common men according to Karl Marx? the bourgeoisie the proletarians the men who suffer the men who follow him

6. What Charles Darwin work suggests evolution by natural selection? "On the Origin of Species" "Dawkins vs. Gould : Survival of the Fittest" "The Wealth of Nations" "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory"

7. Freud believed that all humans possess three distinct decision making chambers of human behavior. Which of the following is not one of these chambers? the id the fool the ego the superego

8. According to existentialists, what is the key to the suffering of man? government man emotions lack of natural resources

9. According to Kierkegaard man was blessed with the greatest gift, but unfortunately this gift generates emotions. What is this gift? Answer: (Two Words)

10. Which of the following authors do not display themes from Existential Philosophers in their writing? Kurt Vonnegut Albert Camus L. Frank Baum Fydor Dostoevsky