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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 the only solution to Engels and Marx for fixing humanity's problems?

2. From what does this type of value come?

3. With this philosophy of seeing everything as mechanical, things are immutable or _____________________.

4. Marx is a materialist and his work attempts to bring more consistency to _______________.

5. The term from number 116 comes from Greek where it means what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is meant by materialism becoming mechanistic?

2. What is the importance of competition? What example does Marx give to support this? How does this factor into capitalism?

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

4. Who are the two types of men philosophy sees? Describe these two types.

5. What does Marx say about alienation?

6. What are Kant's ideas?

7. What is surplus value? How does this affect the worker?

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

9. What are the ideas of Giambattista Vico?

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

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

Marx and Engel wrote the Communist Manifesto.

Part 1) What is the Communist Manifesto? Why did they write it?

Part 2) How does this Manifesto reflect other philosophers works? How might it have influenced philosophers after Marx and Engels?

Part 3) How important is this Manifesto in Marx's career and title as the founder of Communism?

Essay Topic 3

Those who tried to find logical reasons for natural events became known as "thinkers."

Part 1) Name four of these 'thinkers." How is each significant?

Part 2) How did these "thinkers" respond to the religious elite and vice versa? Why did the react in this way?

Part 3) Is this information about the "thinkers" accurate? Why or why not?

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