What was Marx’s critique of bourgeois morality and bourgeois freedom?

What is Rousseau’s political solution to the problem of modern civilization?

Which of the following best represents John Stuart Mill’s position regarding moral truth?

According to Tocqueville, which of the following are factors that moderate and ennoble American democracy?

Answer the following prompt in one detailed (6+ sentences) paragraph: What most worries Tocqueville about the tendencies of democracy? How are these related to what Bénéton calls “equality by default”?

According to Marx, what is the driving force of history?

Answer the following prompt in one detailed (6+ sentences) paragraph: Both Marx and Mill propose a politics based on a conception of the historical progress of humanity. How are their conceptions of this progress similar? How do they differ? 

Each wave of modernity is created by questioning a premise assumed by an earlier wave of modernity. Which of the following answer choices correctly lists the premise of each of the three waves of modernity in chronological order from the first wave onward? 1. History as a rational process of human self-realization 2. Self-reflection as the measure of necessity 3. Apatheia and asceticism as portals to the good 4. The good as normative for life 5. Nature understood as the necessity of self-preservation

According to Burke, what is nature, and how do we perceive natural rights?

How did Marx describe his relationship to Hegel?