According to Aristotle, what made Oedipus Rex and Medea great works of art was that
A) ?they were outstanding examples of the Dionysian type of art.
B) ?they made us aware of the gap between the transcendent reality of the forms of beauty and goodness and the real world.
C) ?their characters and plots effectively evoked and cleansed their audiences of basic emotions such as fear and pity.
D) ?they taught people that the material world was passing away and so was of little value.
C
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Which of the following is not an actual ethical theory?
A) consequentialism B) deontology C) utilitarianism D) principalism
List three symbols of the Buddha found in Buddhist art, and explain their meaning.
What will be an ideal response?
Jimmy told me that he put a million dollars in the bank. Therefore, if we start digging on the side of the river, were bound to find it.
A. appeal to tradition B. faulty analogy C. appeal to fear D. appeal to ignorance E. equivocation
The question, "Is there one reality whose nature is undivided, or are there many different real things that cannot be reduced to a single thing?" expresses
A) an materialist viewpoint. B) a teleological viewpoint. C) a pluralistic viewpoint. D) the problem of the one and the many.