Daoist philosophers believed that geometry and mathematics
a. were meaningless in the pursuit of truth.
b. were important in understanding underlying realities.
c. were dangerous practices that could result in moral collapse.
d. were difficult but necessary parts of an education.
a
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Student uprisings began in the early 1960s in the United States and grew with opposition to:
A. Nixon's open relations with communist China. B. Johnson's Great Society legislation. C. Kennedy's assassination. D. the war in Vietnam. E. growing class sizes.
The Spanish saw their successful overthrow of the Aztec Empire as
a. proof that God was on their side. b. the work of disease that ravaged the empire. c. a simple matter of chance that favored them. d. impossible without the assistance of the native peoples.
What was Freud's attitude toward primal instincts in the human mind?
A) He feared them and offered a clinical approach to controlling them. B) He celebrated them as humanity's true source of strength. C) He believed that they were less important than reason in motivating human actions. D) He felt that they should be repressed as completely as possible. E) He had faith that they could be channeled into productive religious experience.
An important new German power that emerged after the Thirty Years' War was
A) Saxony. B) Austria. C) the Palatine. D) Brandenburg-Prussia. E) Bohemia.