T or F 1. Marx was a great thinker during the Enlightenment.

T or F 2. Marx was a great thinker during the industrial revolution.

T or F 3. Scientific method could be used to diagnose problems with the human soul.

T or F 4. Scientific method could be used to diagnose problems with the human society.

T or F 5. The dominant intellectual influence on Marx was Plato.

T or F 6. The dominant intellectual influence on Marx was Hegel.

T or F 7. The leading inspiration in Hegel’s thought was the idea of progress in human history.

T or F 8. The leading inspiration in Hegel’s thought was the idea of progress in individual human intelligence.

9. Hegel interpreted human history as the progressive self realization of what?
 

10.What is a “Right” Hegelian?
 
 
 

11. What is a Hegelian of the left?
 
 

T or F 12. According to Feuerbach God progressively realizes Himself in history.

T or F 13. According to Feuerbach religious beliefs are produced by humans as a pale reflection of this world.

T or F 14. In the 1840’s Marx and Engels formulated the materialist conception of history.

T or F 15. In the 1840’s Marx and Engels formulated the spiritualist conception of history.

T or F 16. The driving force of history is spiritual.

T or F 17. The driving force of history is material.

T or F 18. The economic conditions contain the key to all of history.

T or F 19. Alienation is at its root religious.

T or F 20. Alienation is at its root social and economic.

T or F 21. In capitalism labor is something alien to the laborer because:
     a.
 

     b.

T or F 22. The purpose of Marx’s work was to interpret the world.

T or F 23. The purpose of Marx’s work was to change the world.

T or F 24. History is moving towards the revolution by which capitalism will give way to communism.
 
T or F 25. History is moving towards the revolution by which communism will give way to capitalism.

26. Define “scientific socialism”.
 
 

T or F 27. Marx was an atheist.
 
T or F 28. Marx was a materialist.

T or F 29. Marx was a determinist.

T or F 30. All human phenomena can be explained by the methods of science.

T or F 31. Marx claimed to have found the truly scientific method for studying the historical development of human societies.

32. What is Reductionism?
 

 
T or F 33. Marx was a reductionist.

T or F 34. Marx was not a reductionist.

T or F 35. There are general socioeconomic laws that operate in human history.

36. What is a materialist conception of history?

 
T or F 37. The ultimate aim of Marx’s work is to lay bare the materialist laws of the motion of modern society.
 
T or F 38. The ultimate aim of Marx’s work is to lay bare the economic law of the motion of modern society.
 
T or F 39. The universal laws of history which concern the processes of development of one historical epoche to another are mental.

T or F 40. The universal laws of history which concern the processes of development of one historical epoche to another are economic.

T or F 41. Social being determines consciousness.

T or F 42. Consciousness determines social being.

T or F 43. No serious study of history or social science can ignore economic factors.

T or F 44. The economic base of a society determines its ideology.

45. What is an IDEOLOGY?
 
 
 

46. What 3 factors make up the economic base of society?
     a.
 

     b.
 

     c.

 
47. What is a synchronic materialist conception of history?
 
 
 
 

48. What is a diachronic materialist conception of history?
 
 
 
 
 

T or F 49. Not every aspect of culture, politics, and religion is completely determined by economic factors.

T or F 50. Every aspect of culture, politics, and religion is completely determined by economic factors.

T or F 51. Cultural factors can have an influence on history.

T or F 52. Cultural factors do not have an influence on history.

T or F 53. The way in which a society produces the necessities of life ant any one stage of economic development will have an influence on how people in the society will think.

T or F 54. The way in which a society produces the necessities of life ant any one stage of economic development will have an influence on how people in the society will think.

T or F 55. On the basis of his general theory of history Marx expected that capitalism would become more and more unstable economically.
 
T or F 56. On the basis of his general theory of history Marx expected that communism would become more and more unstable economically.

57. What is the PROLETARIAT?
 
 

Theory of Human Nature
T or F 58. Marx was more concerned with Philosophical speculation than he was with changing the world.

T or F 59. Marx was more concerned with changing the world than he was with Philosophical speculation.

T or F 60. Consciousness is determined by the materialist conditions of life.

61. Define EPIPHENOMENALISM.
 
 

T or F 62. Humans are essentially social creatures.

T or F 63. Humans are essentially individualistic.
 
 

T or F 64. The real nature of man is the totality of social relations.

T or F 65. There is a fixed individual human nature.

T or F 66. There is no fixed individual human nature.

T or F 67. All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

T or F 68. Whatever a person does is essentially an individual act.

T or F 69. Whatever a person does is essentially a social act.

T or F 70. What kind of individual one is and what kind of things one does are determined by the society within which one lives.

T or F 71. Society is an abstract entity that mysteriously affects the individual.

T or F 72. Sociology is reducible to psychology.

T or F 73. Sociology is not reducible to psychology.

T or F 74. Everything about humans can be explained in terms of facts about individuals.
 
T or F 75. Not everything about humans can be explained in terms of facts about individuals.

T or F 76. Humans are active product beings.

T or F 77. The kind of life that is appropriate for human beings involves purposive productive activity.

T or F 78. Alienation is the lack of fulfillment in industrial labor and the denial of purposive productive activity.

DIAGNOSES

T or F 79. What is wrong with people is related to alienation.

T or F 80. Alienation describes certain features of capitalist society and is a value judgement about what is wrong with existence in industrial societies.

T or F 81. Capitalism is a necessary stage of economic development.

T or F 82. People are alienated from themselves.
 
 

T or F 83. People are alienated from nature.

T or F 84. People are alienated from each other.

T or F 85. People are alienated from the object of their labor.

T or F 86. Capitalist society is in accordance with basic human nature.

T or F 87. Capitalist society is not in accordance with basic human nature.

T or F 88. Private property is the basis of alienated labor.

T or F 89. Private property is a consequence of alienated labor.

T or F 90. Alienated labor consists in the fact that the work of the laborer is not a part of the laborers nature because he does not fulfill himself in his work.
 
T or F 91. Alienated labor consists in the fact that the work of the laborer is a part of the laborers nature and because he fulfills himself in his work.

T or F 92. The basic cause of alienation is that human beings are treated as means to an economic end.
 
T or F 93. The basic cause of alienation is that human beings are treated as economic ends and never as means.

T or F 94. The basic cause of alienation is that human beings are never treated as individuals.

T or F 95. Production is intended for man not man for production.

T or F 96. Man is intended to produce and production is not for man.

PRECRIPTION
 
T or F 97.