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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?
2. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?
3. The arts and sciences have helped human beings to repress what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
4. What did Rousseau believe created physics?
5. What civilizations does Rousseau follow to track the decline of morality?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Rousseau, how is it a paradox that the government makes man both free and subjects?
2. Describe what the interest of the chief of state should be for his individuals according to "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy".
3. Discuss Rousseau's opinion on taxation.
4. According to Rousseau, how does science negatively affect the human population?
5. How does Rousseau feel everyone could reach happiness according to "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy"?
6. Describe what natural law is according to Rousseau in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface".
7. What is the main task of "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?
8. In "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix" what illustration does Rousseau give to compare the modern man to the savage?
9. Explain what Rousseau suggests about mankind's living quarters in their earliest stage.
10. How did the arts and sciences directly effect France, according to Rousseau?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss and describe how Rousseau views the nature of pleasure and pain in human individuals and how they serve as a motivator in all humans.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss what an artist's compensation is and how this compensation leads to the artist's dissolution of virtue, according to Rousseau's belief.
Essay Topic 3
The introduction of arts and sciences are meant to give freedom to men, but slavery was often a result from that knowledge. How do arts and sciences stifle man's liberty and cause them to love their slavery?
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