The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz

Simone De Beauvoir

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What is the focus of the adventurer? (from Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others)

To satisfy a desire for existence in a present, subjective, abstract moment.

To define life by attempting to will himself free.

To enter the future by leaving memorable acts for the past.

To live in defiance of oppression for ambiguous goals.

2.

What does Beauvoir mean when she writes, "...festivals whose role is to stop the movement of transcendence?" (from Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 4-5, The Present and the Future, Ambiguity and Conclusion)

Festivals marking a movement's success obscure the means used to attain the success.

Festivals take people away from their future ambiguity.

Festivals become both a means and an end to obscure the meaninglessness of both the present and the future.

The end has been set up as an end.

3.

What example did Beauvoir use to show how those who fight for a cause will come to accept certain contradictions. (from Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 1-3, The Aesthetic Attitude, Freedom and Liberation, The Antinomies of Action)

Martyrs who were killed by authoritarians who sought to kill their causes, but their deaths gave it more influence.

Generals who were willing to pull their soldiers from battle so they could win a more important battle later.

Politicians who were defeated in elections by foretelling the realized negative consequences of popular programs.

Natives who fought freedom from the British Empire during WWII with the support of Fascist regimes.

4.

What does Beauvoir suggest to be the motivation of those who adopt the Aesthetic Attitude? (from Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 1-3, The Aesthetic Attitude, Freedom and Liberation, The Antinomies of Action)

It is a way of fleeing the truth of the present.

It is meant to understand the beauty of freedom.

It is a means of understanding the role of oppression in history.

It is taken so the individual can reflect on the role of the will in using freedom.

5.

For whom do Beauvoir and Marx agree that the cause of freedom is most urgent? (from Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 1-3, The Aesthetic Attitude, Freedom and Liberation, The Antinomies of Action)

To the oppressed that it appears as immediately necessary.

Women who are unaware of the subjugation to men.

The proletariat who is controlled by the bourgeois.

The unenlightened who does not realize their exploitation.

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