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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. What is tragic about an increasing knowledge, according to Rousseau?
2. What created ethics according to Rousseau?
3. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?
4. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?
5. What does Rousseau believe happens with the more a human knows?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rousseau feel humans are called to, according "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
2. Describe what amore-propre is, according to Rousseau.
3. Describe how Rousseau feels about property rights according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two".
4. Explain how private persons have become slaves, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two".
5. Describe how Rousseau feels about luxury?
6. How does Rousseau feel about his fellow citizens according to "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
7. Explain what "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II" suggests cheapens virtue.
8. Compare and contrast the difference of amore-propre to philosophy according to Rousseau in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One".
9. According to Rousseau, how is it a paradox that the government makes man both free and subjects?
10. Discuss what "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two" says about despotism role in inequality.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain and analyze how speech is a "cry of nature" and how Rousseau feels speech evolved.
Essay Topic 2
Explain how Jean-Jacques Rousseau has difficulty treating the subject of the "restoration of the arts and sciences" and its effects on morality fairly in his "A Discourse on Inequality"? Discuss what gets in the way and how the results are contradictory.
Essay Topic 3
Describe and analyze how luxury is a result of development and without development, luxury would not exist, according to Rousseau.
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