ETHC 280 Quiz: Responses to Socialism
- According to Haskins, people who advocate for socialism are often well – intentioned and truly believe it can x the world’s most difficult crises.
- According to Haskins, many of the predictions from Marx regarding a free-market society have been shown wrong.
- According to Haskins, some socialist admit that their system might compel people to engage in activities those individuals find abhorrent.
- According to Haskins, socialism does not seek to replace religious beliefs.
- According to Haskins, socialist do not assume economic concerns have greater value than individual liberty.
- According to Haskins, the Socialist Party of Great Britain implied and seemed to acknowledge that socialism is incompatible with religious liberty(therefore freedom of thought in general).
- According to Haskins, socialism believes in and requires uniformity of thought as demonstrated by its ideal of the common ownership of property.
- According to Shapiro, the existentialist reduced human purpose to creation of subjective truth; and science provided the last remnant of objective truth in Western thought.
- According to Shapiro, the legacy of Western thought relied on natural law . Universal natural law is the idea that humans are animals and should act in accord with their instincts.
- According to Shapiro, in the 20th century science was quickly used to undermine reason and will.