Existentialism

Question 1

"A certain set of core properties that are necessary or essential for a thing to be what it is"

Accepted Answer

essence

Question 2

SO what is part of being a good human being?

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Adhering to your essence

Question 3

What did Sartre say about authority figures like parents, the Church, and government?

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They’re people just like us--who don’t have any answers.

Question 4

Our final book is about a man turning into a bug. What might this “metamorphosis” symbolize?

Accepted Answer

A parallel for the treatment of Jews in Europe at the time., The meaninglessness of our lives is equal to that of a bug., The author’s own self-loathing.

Question 5

What historical events led many people to “abandon any belief in an ordered world”?

Accepted Answer

WWII and the Holocaust

Question 6

Why does essence give you purpose?

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Because you were born to be a certain thing

Question 7

What is this belief known as?

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Essentialism

Question 8

What does that mean?

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We—our existence and our decisions—have no importance.

Question 9

What does "existence precedes essence" mean?

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There’s no set path that we’re supposed to follow.

Question 10

Who asked, "What if we’re born without any hard-wired purpose?"

Accepted Answer

Jean-Paul Sartre

Question 11

What is "the search for answers in an answerless world"?

Accepted Answer

the absurd

Question 12

What is the ultimate message of existentialism?

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Yea... all of that.

Question 13

What is the mantra of existentialism?

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Existence precedes essence.

Question 14

What did Sartre call a “refusal to accept the absurd”?

Accepted Answer

bad faith

Question 15

Who was a famous Nihilist?

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Friederich Nietzsche

Question 16

What do existential theists say?

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God created us with NO purpose in mind.

Question 17

What is the belief in the "ultimate meaninglessness of life"?

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Nihilism

Question 18

What did Sartre think about our “painful” and “shocking” freedom?

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If there are no ruleseach of us must design our own morality

Question 19

the necessity to accept the full weight of your freedom in the light of the absurd

Accepted Answer

living authentically

Question 20

What follows this conclusion?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 21

Why is the blade the “essential property of the knife”?

Accepted Answer

because it gives the knife it's defining function

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