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T or F: According to V.M., Kurt Cobains life and music reflected the confusion he saw in the postmodern world around him and in his own being. He, like many others in the West, was unable to find a stable worldview in which t center those principles.
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True
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State the Buddhist doctrine of impermanence that Cobain was naturally drawn to.
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there is nothing stable and permanent in the universe. Impermanence appears to be a doctrine the West is embracing in all spheres of life.
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T or F: One philosophical implication of God's demise, which Nietzsche failed to see, was the beginning of self-actualization.
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F: implication was actually the death of self. Prior to Nietzsche the West was in agreement with St. Augustine's understanding that every hman being was a trinity of existence (being), intellect, and will. Thus, a denial of the existence of the divine self made it impossible to affirm the existence of the human self. Thus, many intellectuals in our day are reverting to the Buddhist idea that the self is an allusion. Individuality is only an illusion created be language.
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What did the Buddha blame for creating the illusion of the self? What was it a product of?
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the mind. it was a product of primeval cosmic ignorance.
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Denying the reality of a spiritual core as the essence of every human being makes it hard to make sense of music, because....
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music, like morality, is a matter of the soul.
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Augustine succeeded in refuting to the philosophical skepticism that Pyrrho brought from the East, by affirming...
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that certainty of the human self because the Bible taught that God existed and had created man in his own image. Also, that language can communicate truth because communication is intrinsic to the triune God and man is made in the image of a God who communicates.
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what is nihilism?
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the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.In Philosophy it is an extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence. The word originated in the early 19th century from Latin "nihil" = nothing. literally, "nothingism"
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T or F:a culture of music flourishes in the soil of nihilism
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False. it does not flourish.
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T or F: Augustine, like pythagoras, argued that music is mathematical, therefore, it must be rational, eternal, unchangeable, meaningful, and objective- it consists of mathematical harmony. .. according to augustine, the Bible presented a view of creation that explained why matter could make music
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truth.
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According to Martin Luther's educational philosophy, musical literacy...
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produces people with an intuitive awareness of a logical and orderly universe.
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The New Testament encouragement to pursue the gift of prophecy, said Luther, had to include...
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the learning of music. Luther found biblical support in the OT where apparently an early meaning of the phrase "to prophesy" was ecstatic singing accompanied with music.
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What doctrine led Luther to form a congregation where all participated in singing, prayer, and other means of worshipping God.
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Priesthood of all believers.
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The breakup tonality in Western music is said to have begun with
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Adolf Hitler's hero, Richard wagner, who experimented with "atonality" in his opera Tristan and Isolde.
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