British Culture

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British 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?
• and
• 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 Smiths
  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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• End of History of Western Thought
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