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The task of modern philosophy

Exercise

1. What do the inventions of agriculture and weapons have in common with machine production?

2. «In the old days, mountains and waterfalls were natural phenomena; now, an inconvenient mountain can be abolished and a convenient waterfall can be created.» (11.9-11). What point is Russell trying to prove?

3. «Now» (11.10,12,20): Is the writer referring to a specific year? (What does «now» mean here?)

4. What is the difference in the effects of education in the machine age as compared with pre-machine times?

5. The writer has some reason to believe that «the mentality of agriculturalists» (1.21-22) has been transformed in one generation in Russia. Circle TRUE or FALSE.) Justify your answer by quoting from the text.

6. What is the result, as regards man's outlook on life, of his new sense of power?

7. Name two elements which rulers nowadays regard as raw material upon which power can be exercised.

    8.«It has already produced...» (1.37-38).

     What does «it» refer to?__________________

9. What is the grammatical subject of the verb «is» in line 41?

10.What, according to Russell, is the most urgent task of our time?

 


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