The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz

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What does Beauvoir claim to be the violence committed by opponents to the Nazi occupation of France. (from Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 4-5, The Present and the Future, Ambiguity and Conclusion)

To defeat the German military.

To create a state of violence that made collaboration impossible.

To inspire the nation to overthrow the occupation.

To chase out their German occupiers.

How does Beauvoir claim an individual can prevent life from being defined as an escape toward nothingness? (from Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 4-5, The Present and the Future, Ambiguity and Conclusion)

Existence must be asserted in the present.

Impossible or utopian goals must not be set.

Projects must be taken in consideration of their consequences.

All goals must consider the ambiguity of all life.

What does Beauvoir report comes to the individual at the time the world changes in his perspective? (from Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others)

He faces the choice of repeating past mistakes or breaking from them.

He has the moment of moral choice.

The world is no longer ready made.

He can begin to control the consequences of his acts.

How does Beauvoir explain how the passionate man different from the adventurer man? (from Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others)

The passionate man fails to fulfill his subjectivity rather than the content of the subjectivity.

The passionate man has a focus guiding his adventures.

The passionate man acts from internal desires.

The passionate man attaches his adventure to unmovable ethics.

How do ethics of ambiguity avoid being solipsistic? (from Chapter 3, The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Sections 4-5, The Present and the Future, Ambiguity and Conclusion)

By the fact that the individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and other individuals.

Because the means of an end often affect more individual than the achievement of the end itself.

Because it demands that individuals engage matter in the pursuit of projects.

Because goals often transcend the life of the individual who initiates them.