The variety of attitudes toward reason in the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries included the belief that
a. the long tradition of objective facts and truth was mistaken.
b. if objective truth does not exist, the individual and society are faced with the question of what values do exist.
c. the secular tradition is finally seeing its limitations and the answers are where they always have been: religion.
d. reason is flawed and can dehumanize life, but it is the best that humanity has; it must be adjusted according to the new insights but not abandoned.
e. all of the above
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Peasant rebellions tended to be __________ in that peasants generally wanted to restore customary rights.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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A) Blacks did not see the war as necessary to wage compared to northern whites. B) Blacks failed to understand the profound connections between the war and the expansion of slavery while northern whites quickly understood it. C) Blacks rejected Lincoln's use of force against southern white resistance to federal law while northern whites eagerly embraced it. D) Blacks compared to northern whites understood early in the war that the fate of slavery was connected to the war's outcome.
The Hebrew God's willingness to be held accountable to moral standards provided a basis for __________ in human relations.
A. justice B. hierarchies C. tolerance D. freedom