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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. According to Beauvoir, what stops an individual's life from appearing as a negligible thing?
2. What Beauvoir claim to happen to a democratic regime that defends itself by acts of oppression?
3. According to Beauvoir, if every man is free:
4. What does Beauvoir claim is revealed through art?
5. When an individual aims at a goal that will be achieved beyond his own death, what does Beauvoir claim the individual should expect from the time given to the goal?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Beauvoir write that the only way way that the oppressed can fulfill his freedom is through revolt?
2. What is the example of the conservative that Beauvoir uses to illustrate how tyrants will attempt to prevent revolt?
3. What does Beauvoir identify as one of the chief objections leveled against existentialism with regard to freedom?
4. What are the two meanings that Beauvoir gives for the future?
5. How does Beauvoir dispute the idea that individual freedom does not lead to anarchy?
6. What does Beauvoir claim prevents the future from being considered a harmonious development?
7. How does ambiguity affect man when he faces failure and outrageousness, according to Beauvoir?
8. What is the one solution that Beauvoir offers to the oppressed?
9. How does the individual who claims to have adopted the Aesthetic Attitude view historical work, according to Beauvoir?
10. How does Beauvoir characterize freedom that is won through denying freedom to others?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Beauvoir claim that a "serious man" becomes nihilistic and what are the affects of nihilism on the individual? What are the consequences to the "serious man" if he resists the impulses that lead to nihilism? How does individual acceptance or rejection of nihilism influence an environment or community.
Essay Topic 2
Beauvoir begins Chapter Three by explaining the social aspect of freedom and then details the affect of the "Aesthetic Attitude" on it. Examine the "Aesthetic Attitude", whether or not it has a positive influence on freedom, and what sort of individual detailed by Beauvoir (the sub-man, the serious man, the adventurer, the nihilist, or the passionate man) is most likely to adopt this attitude.
Essay Topic 3
Beauvoir begins Chapter One, "Ambiguity and Freedom" with a brief review of materialism, dualism, and existentialism and how they either affirm or disregard the ambiguous nature of life. Give choose one of the philosophies and summarize Beauvoir's views on it, then comment on your agreement or disagreement with Beauvoir based upon your perspective of the philosophy you have chosen. Support your argument with proofs from "The Ethics of Ambiguity" and from at least one outside source.
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