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Exam 3approximately which year did the Postmodern ear begin? - correct answer Later 20th century Which of the following statements best characterizes postmodernism? - correct answer Truth is relative Which of the following statements best characterizes postmodernism? - correct answer Art is best when is uses collaboration and a pastiche Which of the following statements best characterizes postmodernism? - correct answer Less is a bore Which of the following statements best characteri...

Elenchus correct answers the Socratic method, refutation, putting to the test Aporia correct answers a state of perplexity (confusion); the usual result of the Socratic method Kallipolis correct answers the beautiful (noble) city; In the Republic Plato's ideal "city of the mind" Kalon correct answers beauty, fine, noble Polis correct answers city, city-state Psuche (Psyche) correct answers the soul; the mind Andreas correct answers Courage; literally "manliness" Eidos c...

Socratic Method (Elenchus) correct answers - a conversational (dialogical) method of doing philosophy that attempts to answer a question (i.e. what is courage?) by Socrates challenging the beliefs of his conversational partners through rigorous questioning - does not establish an answer to the question under discussion but merely shows why a proposed view cannot be true "Elenchus" correct answers literally means "putting to the test" or "refutation" "The Apology" correct answers d...

HUM EXAM top Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, rated A Genre of The Instructions of Amenemope - didactic (intended to teach) How does Utanapishtim test Gilgamesh? - stay awake What form does an answer in Ifa divination take? - a poem Highest good for Epicureans - pleasure first noble truth of buddhism - all is dukkha what does Krishna tell Arjuna that he must do? - fight! where were the Jews taken in exile? - Babylon who destroyed the 2nd temple in Jerusalem? - Ro...

Outliers Final Study Guide Questions and Answers Graded A What is the narrative purpose of the definition given at the beginning of the book? To state what an outlier is How does Gladwell establish the similarities between Roseto Valfortore, Italy, and the region the Rosetans settle in the United States? Gladwell discusses the way the Rosetans transported the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania. He notes the way they'd created a powerful, protective social st...

English Literature CLEP Latest 2023 Graded A heroic couple a rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines, first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit, esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: "In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend") terza rima -(tert′sə rē′mə) a verse form of Italian origin, made up of tercets, the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba,...

What does Apology mean in Plato's Apology - Defense What is Socrates on trial for - He is defending himself against making the worse appear the better cause According to Socrates who did the Delphic Oracle say was the wisest - Socrates Who does Socrates say he has that speaks to him and tells him something bad is going to happen? - An Oracle/sign Which of the following did socrates write - Nothing What is the initial sought after sentence by Meletus - Death What does socrates first purp...

Ancient Greek Quiz 3 Study Questions and answers • What are the archai, for the atomists? (Hint: there are 2) - Atoms and void • What are the three ways in which being can differ, according to the atomists? What are these differences supposed to explain? - Things appear different to us than animals (one person doesn't make same judgements as another concerning senses). What is true and false is unclear (either nothing is true, or it is unclear to us). Senses (nothing that appears is ...

*Hyle. - correct answersAristotle's word for "prime matter." Translated by Thomas Aquinas as material prima. Aristotle's concept arose out of a critique of Anaximander's notion of apeiron. *Morphe. - correct answersAristotle's term for form. In Aristotle's Metaphysics there is a duality between hyle as prime matter and morph' as that which forms this matter into the sensible things of the world. Latin translation: forma. *Apeiron. - correct answersAnaximander's concept of the f...