《西方文化经典选读》考试题型及复习要点
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《西方文化经典选读》考试题型及复习要点
一、考试题型（开卷考试；英文试卷，用英文答题）：
1、作者——作品连线（20*1’=20分）
2、填空题（20*1’=20分）
3、简答题（4*10’=40分）（每题约需100词）
4、论述题（1*20’=20分）（约200词）
二、复习要点
1.Homer
●The titles and plots of his two epics
●The theme of Iliad
2.Socrates
●How does Socrates prove the oracle that he is the wisest among the Greeks?
●The mission of a philosopher and what it means that he is like a gadfly to the nation
●His attitude towards death
3.Plato
●Facts about Plato’s life and works
●His allegory of the cave and the essence of his idea of education
●The qualities of a Ruler
●How to understand “Better to be the poor servant of a poor master”
4.Marcus Aurelius
●The duty or responsibility of man
5.The Holy Bible
●Facts about The Holy Bible
●Creation of the world
●The fall of man
●The birth of Jesus
6.Nicolo Machiavelli
●Machiavellianism
●How should princes keep faith? Your comments?
●Machiavelli’s idea of the essential qualities of a popular ruler
7.Immanuel Kant
●Facts of his life and works
●The essence of enlightenment
●Public use of one’s reason and private use of one’s reason
8.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
●Natural man and social man
●The essence of education
9.Adam Smith
●Reasons for the division of labor
●The invisible hand
10.Friedrich Nietzsche
●Facts of his life and works
●His attitude towards morality and Christianity
●The relationship between Apollonian spirit and Dionysian spirit
11.Max Weber
●The Protestant ethic
●The spirit of capitalism
●The relationship between the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
12.Sigmund Freud
●Facts of his life and works
●His theory of consciousness
●His theory of personality
●Functions of dreams
13.Simone de Beauvoir
●“Women as Other”
●“Otherness is a fundamental category of human thought.”
●“Man is not a natural species but a historical idea, while woman is not a completed
readity but rather a becoming.”
14.Jean-Paul Sartre
●“Essence precedes existence”
●“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself”
●“Existentialism is optimistic”
15.Fredric Jameson
●Modernist Culture vs. Postmodernist Culture
16.Michel Foucault
●Madness and its connection with civilization