The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beauvoir suggest becomes the intellectual responsibility of existentialists who reject God?
(a) He has the responsibility of defining how works for self-benefit are also beneficial to his environs.
(b) He bears the responsibility to prove the lives of others have not affects on himself, starting with the union of his parents that brought his existence.
(c) He bears responsibility for a world which is not the work of strange power.
(d) He bears the responsibility to show his works for self-benefit do not affect others in his environs.

2. In what sense does Beauvoir claim that every man is free?
(a) In the sense that he can choose his own ethic.
(b) In the sense that only consequences affect his choices.
(c) In the sense that he spontaneously casts himself into the world.
(d) In the sense that he is free to end or continue his existence.

3. 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 believe that the world is willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.
(c) Bouvoir claims that existentialists give focus to the importance of matter in reality.
(d) Bouvoir claims that existentialists offer their detractors important challenges to prove their theories.

4. To what conclusion to Beauvoir arrive regarding Sartre's internal choices that are affected by personal passions?
(a) Since man is directed by his eternal passions, the external force of God has no influence in Sartre's existentialism.
(b) Since Sartre considers man as driven by internal passions, he brings to question the existence of the physical world and its causes and effects.
(c) Sartre's man eliminates the needs for external moral influence by following passions that eventually lead to personal benefit.
(d) Since passions and their choices are internal, there are no objective standards by which to define their usefulness.

5. How does Beauvoir claim the condition of the world changes from child to adolescence?
(a) The adolescent realizes his decisions have affects.
(b) When a child begins to realize he cannot create his own existence, he becomes accountable for his thoughts.
(c) The world is no longer ready made, but must be made.
(d) The individual begins to realize that matter has significant influence on thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beauvoir explain what Descartes meant when he said that the freedom of man is infinite, but this power is limited?

2. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?

3. What does Beauvoir claim to be the basis upon which a man decides upon what he wants to be?

4. Who does Beauvoir use as an example of moving through such obstacles?

5. What idea regarding ethics does Beauvoir attribute to Hegel?

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