Instructions: Write and edit your answers and then submit in before the deadline.have not plagiarized any passages from the internet, from books, or from our many DiscussionPosts; and are solely responsible for the submission. Violation of this agreement will result in anoverall Exam grade of Zero — which is likely going to cost you the credit. This exam is worth40% of your overall grade, and will be graded out of 40 marks. Remember: ‘philosophy’ isn’tjust ‘whatever-you-think’. It is really this discipline we have studied, and the philosophers whohave published their own thoughts about the Big Questions. Your engagement with these ideasand these thinkers is your own way into these Big Questions. All answers must be in essayformat — with sentences and paragraphs. But no thesis paragraph is required, and no formalbibliography (although indicate where you are taking direct citations). Length of your answershould be related to the weight assigned to each question! Note: two or three sentencesprobably won’t get you a passing grade! Take your time, re-read relevant passages of primarytexts, think about your answers, edit them, and re-read the questions in case you missedsomething. Good Luck!SECTION A: Answer ONE of these two questions [12 marks]1. According to Dostoyevski, what is the “most advantageous advantage”? In what way doesit contest traditional Western philosophy, in particular the idea of human rationality?2. According to Nietzsche, truth is “a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, andanthropomorphisms.” Explain what he means, and why such a claim contests traditionalWestern philosophy.SECTION B: Answer ONE of these two questions [15 marks]3. In my Introduction to Freud’s book, The Future of an Illusion, and in my lecture, I refer toFreud’s ‘alternate theory of revolution’. Explain how this alternate theory works, accordingto Freud, and in contrast to Marxism.4. Explain how ‘Freudo-Marxism’ works, with reference to the ideas of Herbert Marcuse.SECTION C: Answer this question [13 marks]5. Watch “The Story of Stuff”, and read LARB interview “ForThe Love of Wisdom,” and then discuss (1) this particular moment in time called the‘Anthropocene’ and (2) connect it to any of the ideas discussed in this course (starting withthese two sources, i.e. the “Story of Stuff” and the interview).Links to resources-For Section A and B-WEEK 7: Schopenhauer’s On the Sufferings of the World – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LFicups1DLd5_Gz3LN4dZjdp5IcxYrtl/view?usp=sharingWEEK 8 : Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GI1wefzRxYEbJB83KYESVeDY4WQSDXhc/view?usp=sharingWEEK 9: Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lie in a Extra Moral Sense” – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uBdAsGSjbbumPjvN4iUwsEGTU2QZ2KNC/view?usp=sharingWEEK 10: Dufresne Ted Ed ‘Freud’ Cartoon – https://www.ted.com/talks/todd_dufresne_history_vs_sigmund_freud?language=enWEEK 10: Old Translation of Freud’s “The Future of an Illusion – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KMwHwKiiXVFrFQrQfP34N6SYgnDDUeDd/view?usp=sharingWEEK 11: Marcuse’s “The Hidden Trend in Psychoanalysis” – https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Qyo1g_wZK0dHDcFQoWDZGoRQsFgNqtA/view?usp=sharingFor Section C—>The Story of Stuff – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM&t=688s&ab_channel=TheStoryofStuffProject–>The Love of Wisdom – https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/todd-dufresne/
