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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 states that there is nothing beyond the natural?

2. Who were the individuals who tried to find logical explanations for natural events?

3. What did Hegel fail to see that still existed in society?

4. After the Greek epoch, the so-called Age of Faith occurred during what period?

5. What does Marx do with Hegel and Feurerbach's theories?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the foundations of Marx's economic thought begin to come together?

2. What are the ideas of empiricism? Who supported these ideas?

3. What are dialectics and the dialectical method?

4. What does Marx say about the capitalist?

5. Describe the French socialists. What did Marx think of these men?

6. How did Marx and Engels get the opportunity to write the Communist Manifesto?

7. What does Marx say about alienation?

8. Who are three of Greece's most well-known and important philosophers? Give detailed information about the theories of one of these philosophers.

9. What are the ideas of Giambattista Vico?

10. For what ideas was Hegel attacked? Why was he attacked?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marx discusses alienation.

Part 1) What is alienation? how does this relate to the ideas of both Ludwig Feuerbach and Hegel?

Part 2) How does Marx's belief about alienation support socialism?

Part 3) Are Marx's views regarding alienation, private ownership, and socialism valid? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

French socialism was a major influence on Marx.

Part 1) Who are the French socialists? In what did they believe?

Part 2) Are their ideas about society possible? Why or why not?

Part 3) How did Marx use the ideas of these socialists to expand upon or support his own ideas?

Part 4) How did Marx take these philosophical views and make them more practical? Do you agree with these practical views on how to solve the economic problems for exploited workers? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Through Lenin, Marx's ideas reach a world audience.

Part 1) Who was Lenin? How did he use Marx's work? Why did he use Marx's work?

Part 2) Why was Marx relatively unknown during his lifetime? How then did his ideas become popular and well-known through Lenin?

Part 3) How did Lenin both help and hurt Marx's philosophies?

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