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- Although persecution at the hands of -------
landowners vanquished the will of many, it
------- the dreams of revolution among the
hardier insurgents.
(A) despotic.. squandered
(B) cruel.. destroyed
(C) amenable.. bore
(D) celebrated.. initiated
(E) ruthless.. forged
theory of morality. So impressed was Kant by
the insights of Rousseau that he hung a picture
of him on the wall of his study, convinced that
Rousseau was the Newton of the moral world.PASSAGE 2
The roses we lay at Rousseau’s feet for this the-
ory of Natural Rights tend to overwhelm the
less fragrant of his ideas. He persisted in believ-
ing in the nobility of the primitive state of
nature, and that women’s nature was to serve
men. His assertions about Natural Rights of
Man laid the philosophical foundation of
American independence, but his worship of
emotion over reason and of “negative educa-
tion” gave generations of parents permission to
ignore the need to discipline and teach their
children.- Passage 1 suggests that Goethe
(A) was at the forefront of the Age of
Reason
(B) was a traditionalist
(C) was influenced by Rousseau
(D) opposed the Romantic movement
(E) inspired much of Rousseau’s work - Passage 1 mentions Kant’s “daily walk” (line
16) in order to emphasize
(A) Kant’s forgetfulness
(B) Kant’s commitment to healthful
practices
(C) the dogmatic nature of Rousseau’s writ-
ings
(D) the effect of Rousseau’s philosophy on
Kant
(E) Kant’s close friendship with Rousseau - Unlike Passage 1, Passage 2 characterizes
Rousseau’s emphasis on emotion as
(A) insincere
(B) innovative
(C) harmful
(D) temporary
First passage: from “Rousseau: A Romantic in the Age of (E) necessary
Reason,” from Socrates to Sartre,McGraw-Hill, 1999, p. 278
Second passage: Copyright 2005 Christopher Black. All rights
reserved.
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The passages below are followed by questions
based on their content; questions following a
pair of related passages may also be based on
the relationship between the paired passages.
Answer the questions on the basis of what is
statedor impliedin the passage and in any
introductory material that may be provided.Questions 6–9 are based on the following passages.
PASSAGE 1
The following is from a recent commentary on
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), a French
philosopher during the Enlightenment.Taken as a whole, Rousseau’s writings at-
tacked the Age of Reason, gave impetus to the
Romantic movement by emphasizing feeling
(leading Goethe to say that “feeling is all”),
revived religion even though he had doubts
about some traditional teachings, provided a
new direction for education (his book Émile
was considered by some the best work on edu-
cation since Plato’s Republic), inspired the
French Revolution, made a unique impact on
political philosophy, and, more than the writ-
ing of any of his contemporaries, influenced
several subsequent philosophers, especially
Immanuel Kant. On one occasion, Kant was
so absorbed in reading Rousseau’s Émilethat
he forgot to take his celebrated daily walk.
While Kant admitted that it was David Hume
who awakened him from his dogmatic slum-
bers regarding the theory of knowledge, it was
Rousseau who showed him the way to a new