The Individual from Denmark
One who goes against the moral law in order to appeal to something higher than the ethical, higher than the universal. Has an individual relationship with God.
Who is the knight of faith?
This is Nietzsche's test for determining if your actions and choices are authentic?
What is eternal recurrence of the same?
For Sartre, _____________precedes __________.
What are existence and essence?
Heidegger claims we are _________ into the world.
What is thrown?
Is anxiety entirely negative, according to existentialists?
What is NO?
Opens up possibilities. Can help us transform our lives.
This stage of existence is characterized by seriousness, consistency of moral choices, and universality.
What is the ethical stage?
Nietzsche has the madman lament that absolute values do not exist; society is moving past religion; absolute truth does not exist. What does the madman pronounce?
What is "God is dead?"
For Sartre, we are condemned to be __________.
What is free?
This basic structure unites the three modes of Being, according to Heidegger.
What is care?
What is a dualism?
A person who faces an ethical dilemma between two different ethical duties. Someone who renounces a duty at one level of morality in order to perform a duty an another, higher level.
Who is the tragic hero?
The madman claims this is who killed God.
Who is all of us?
(We have killed him)
Sartre claims that if existence precedes essence, then a. there is no determinism.
b. man is free.
c. there is no such thing as human nature.
d. all of the above.
What is D?
Du Bois thought the divided self was not the true self. True or False?
What is true?
This philosopher inspired future existentialists, but all of them have many criticisms of his approach to truth, rationality, and religion.
Who is Hegel?
One of the moments involved in faith, but not the final movement of faith.
What is infinite resignation (or knight of infinite resignation)?
The Ubermensch is able to overcome _________.
What is himself?
Two emotions people might feel as a result of the self-consciousness that arises from what Sartre calls "the look."
What are shame and pride?
Du Bois' term for the ability to understand the world from both the inside the dominant perspective and as an outsider as well.
What is second sight?
Sartre claims that humans insert ________-ness into being.
What is nothingness?
In this kind of truth, the individual is active in upholding the object believed. The emphasis is on the HOW not the WHAT.
What is subjective truth?
Nietzsche (unlike du Bois) thought only a few elites should receive the fullest measure of education. True or False?
What is true?
For deBeauvoir, ambiguity arises because humans have a dual nature comprised of __________ and _____________.
What are facticity and transcendence (being-in-itself and being-for-itself)?
In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, he thinks the main character's invisibility means he has no power at all. True or False?
What is false?
Heidegger thinks we should try to completely avoid being part of the "they." True or False
What is false?