Author Question: Inspired by Indonesian music, Wagnerian opera, and Symbolist poetry, ________ created a mood of ... (Read 138 times)

sabina · **on:** Sep 28, 2018

Inspired by Indonesian music, Wagnerian opera, and Symbolist poetry, ________ created a mood of reverie in the shifting harmonies of his Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun.

A. Faust
B. Beethoven
C. Debussy
D. Brahms

Question 2

Differentiate between the theories of liberalism, conservatism, utilitarianism, and socialism.

What will be an ideal response?

dreamfighter72 · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 28, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

Although capitalism made many people wealthy and countries powerful, it had deleterious effects on much of the population as well, particularly the workforce. Matters of social reform were hotly debated among intellectuals of the time, and ideologies were formed that dictated specific policies of political and economic action.
Conservativesstress ed the importance of maintaining order and perpetuating conventional power structures and religious authority. Liberals, on the other hand, whose ideas were rooted in Enlightenment theories of human progress and perfectibility supported gradual reform through enlightened legal systems, constitutional guarantees, and a generally equitable distribution of material benefits. Utilitarianism, advanced by the British liberal Jeremy Bentham, held that governments should work to secure the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
For socialists, neither conservatism nor liberalism responded adequately to current social and economic inequities. Socialists attacked capitalism as unjust; they called for the common ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution in the interest of a public good. Society, according to the socialists, should operate entirely in the interest of the needs of the people, communally and cooperatively, rather than competitively.