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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What prevents a moral question from presenting itself to the child according to Beauvoir?
2. Although Beauvoir reports that existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity, what does she claim to be existentialism's fundamental flaw?
3. What does Beauvoir report to be the child's situation?
4. Beauvoir claims that critics of existentialism claim that it is solipsistic. What is solipsism?
5. How does Beauvoir identify dualism?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Beauvoir claim that man can rise to a higher moral freedom?
2. What does Beauvoir suggest causes the infantile world to begin to pass away by adolescence?
3. How does Beauvoir claim that man can disclose being?
4. What are two descriptions that Beauvoir gives to man at the beginning of Part I, Ambiguity and Freedom?
5. How does Beauvoir characterize Materialists?
6. How does Beauvoir explain the characteristic feature of all ethics?
7. How does Beauvoir claim that the truly free will is produced?
8. What faces the adolescent who is being liberated from the infantile world, according to Beauvoir?
9. With what quote from Descartes does Beauvoir begin Section II?
10. How does Beauvoir claim that spontaneity affects man's freedom?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Are Beauvoir's writings on accepting the ambiguous nature of life practical today? Identify three principles she articulates in "The Ethics of Ambiguity" that you consider to be important to preserving freedom today. Write why you consider them to be important, what sort of affect the application of these principles on a broad basis would have on freedom and general society, and how you plan to implement these principles in your life.
Essay Topic 2
Beauvoir concludes her book with a defense that her ethical principles regarding ambiguity are individualistic. Support or criticize her position with statements from her book and evidence from personal experiences and history.
Essay Topic 3
Beauvoir considers the present as nothing more that a passing moment between history and the future. Provide a commentary of how Beauvoir's perspective on the past, present, and future can be used to develop a use of time and outlook that can build toward personal freedom and help with plans of projects that will affect your future.
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