Quiz 8 Study Guide 1. From what "limited and conditioned view" does Carl Becker claim to have taken a "hasty glance at human progress" at the end of his book, Progress and Power? 2. To what perspective is this view equivalent? 3. What is it that Becker claims to be assessing or evaluating from this perspective or point of view? 4. What has expanded so greatly "beyond anything comprehended by the Greek gods" such that the view from Mount Olympus will not serve to encompass the activities and purposes of modern humanity in what Becker calls "their eternal aspects?" 5. Who is the god who accompanies us on the flight of imagination Becker suggests "to some point beyond the finite but unbounded world" from which we can grasp the universe as we now know it? 6. Who, then, can or will see the universe and our world of accomplishment from this imaginary point, this "outsider's perspective?" 7. What values, for Becker, does this outsider have? 8. What does Becker note concerning our world and its place in the universe, as observed from the perspective of a "cosmic intelligence?" 9. To what is Becker referring when he writes of "bits of matter" on the surface of the earth that "assume unusually complicated forms and behave in unusually unstable ways?" 10. To what is he referring when he writes of "certain of these bits of animated dust" that "distinguish themselves from others" and dignify themselves with a name? 11. What, according to Becker, is the supposedly unique quality for which these bits of animated dust take credit? 12. "They are not aware," he writes, that it is "no merit." What, then, does he call the supposedly unique quality from the previous question? 13. "So long as the sun maintains on earth the necessary temperature," writes Becker, humans will continue to "manifest a perceptible movement, a measurable although diminishing energy." But what are their activities? 14. To what or whom are these activities "of no consequence?" 15. What, according to Becker, ultimately will become of humanity's "alleged 'imperishable monuments' and 'immortal deeds?'" 16. How will anything that then exists be "because of anything that man has ever done or ever wished to do?" 17. "So a cosmic intelligence might estimate human progress," writes Becker. But what, he then asks, is "this cosmic intelligence that thus asks and answers?" 18. Apart from human intelligence, what questions does the cosmos ask and answer? 19. "The significance of man is that he is that part of the universe that asks" a question, according to Becker. What is this question? 20. What is it, then, that humanity can accomplish "regarding himself and the universe in their eternal aspects?" 21. Becker cites Pascal as observing that humanity has a single "superiority" within the universe. It is, perhaps, most vividly realized at the moment of death. What is this alleged superiority? 22. What is it, according to both Becker and Pascal, that the rest of the universe then knows? 23. What is the cosmic view of the universe of infinite spaces, according to Becker? 24. If, as Becker asserts, this cosmic view is "not rightly to be taken as a description of events that are relevant to man's purposes," what is its relationship to those purposes? 25. What, according to Becker, has this so-called "cosmic view" come into existence to