Jean-Paul Sartre
Background
To Be or Not to Be
Themes
Arguments Against
100

Where did Sartre live?

What is Paris, France?

100

Which war inspired existentialism? 

What is World War Two?

100

The theory that existence precedes essence

What is being-for-itself?

100

Awareness of God’s non-existence leads to this

What is abandonment?

100

A form of ignoring despair, defined as giving up on trying

What is quietism? 

200

What was Sartre's religious leaning?

What is atheistic? 

200

Existentialism is a Humanism was based off of a this given by Sartre? 

What is a lecture? 

200

No consciousness is ever empty

What is being-for-itself?

200

Awareness that we cannot control the actions of others

What is despair?

200

Existentialism is based too heavily on our own experiences and interpretations of the world

What is too subjective?

300

Who did Sartre marry? 

Who is Simone de Beauvoir?

300

The study of basic structures of experience

What is phenomenology?

300

The consciousness is the way we interact with facts, values, and emotions

What is being-for-itself

300

Awareness of our freedom leads to this

What is anguish? 

300

The themes of existentialism allow for a bleak outlook on life

What is too pessimistic? 

400

Sartre declined which award?

What is the Nobel Prize for Literature?

400

According to the Cartesian starting point, what is the central organizing concept in philosophy?

What is consciousness?

400

Existence is complete and self contained

What is being-in-itself

400

Awareness of being objects of experience by others leads to this

What is shame?

400

With existentialism, anything goes

What is anarchism?

500

Aside from a philosopher, Sartre was a what?

What is a playwright, novelist, political activist?

500

I think therefore I am

What is cogito ergo sum?

500

Theory that essence precede existence

What is being-in-itself

500

Doing what other say to avoid responsibility

What is bad faith?

500

We have no guarantee that we can make things better

What is the quietism of despair?

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