The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Ambiguity and Freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beauvoir claim comes of an accomplished act that is left behind by an individual?
(a) The act remains as an experience that lends to the development of the will.
(b) The affects of the act continue, but the act becomes forgotten.
(c) It becomes nothing more than a fact.
(d) It has a diminished affect as time and spontaneous acts have different consequences.

2. How does Beauvoir claim that a spontaneous action, or flight, can be converted into will?
(a) By assuming the project positively.
(b) By accepting the consequences of the spontaneous act.
(c) By recognizing the effects of the spontaneous act on the physical world.
(d) By evaluating the usefulness of the spontaneous act.

3. What does Beauvoir state is the goal at which her freedom aims?
(a) "Seeing the doors of defeat before initiating and act."
(b) "Rejecting the verdicts of doubters and seeing the possibility of achieving ends through obstacles."
(c) "...(C)onquering existence across the always inadequate density of being."
(d) "Understanding the difference between delusion, denial, and stone pounding to affirm true existence."

4. What claim of existentialists does Beauvoir offer in defense of detractors to existentialism?
(a) Bouvoir claims that existentialists help to accentuate the strengths of other theories.
(b) Bouvoir claims that existentialists give focus to the importance of matter in reality.
(c) Bouvoir claims that existentialists offer their detractors important challenges to prove their theories.
(d) Bouvoir claims that existentialists believe that the world is willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.

5. What does Beauvoir claim can come to people who are filled with the horror of defeat?
(a) They must go back to their most recent success to retrace the steps of purpose.
(b) They reach the need to recall experience to make purpose of life.
(c) The face the transcendent moment at which they must face failure or freedom to act.
(d) They would keep themselves from ever doing anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?

2. What is a principle that Beauvoir states that an ethics of ambiguity will refuse to deny a priori?

3. How does Beauvoir compare Marxism to existentialism?

4. In what sense does Beauvoir claim that every man is free?

5. In what way does Beauvoir suggest Marxists practice free will?

(see the answer key)

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