Trauma and the Undoing of the Self (Brison)
The Experience Machine (Nozick)
Personal Freedom and Others (Beauvoir)
Pascal's Wager
Existentialism Is a Humanism (Sarte)
100

This is the term used to describe the psychological responses to trauma, including hypervigilance, heightened startle response, and a sense of a foreshortened future.

What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

100

This is the name of the hypothetical device described in the passage that can provide any desired experience to a person

What is the Experience Machine

100

The child feels this way within their own circle, but must respect and obey the "real world" of what?

What are adults

100

This French mathematician and philosopher made significant contributions to probability theory and the foundations of calculus.

Who is Blaise Pascal

100

This is the philosophical view that existence precedes essence and that humans must define their own meaning.

What is existentialism

200

This philosopher praised those "who long to beget spiritually, not physically, the progeny, which it is the nature of the soul to create and bring to birth."

Who is Plato

200

The passage argues that we desire an actual connection to this, not just the feeling of it.

What is reality

200

These are instilled in the child, leading them to believe in the existence of what as absolute ends?

What are good and evil
200

According to Pascal, even though we cannot know the nature of God, we can know this about God's existence.

What is that God exists

200

This is the idea that we are totally free and not determined by heredity or environment, according to existentialism.

What is that we are totally free

300

This is the term used to describe the way in which, during a traumatic event, the victim is defined out of existence by the attitudes and actions of the perpetrator.

What is "Social Murder"
300
The passage suggests that we may be willing to give up some amount of this to gain a more desireable narrative direction for our lives.

What is happiness

300

This is the drama of original choice that occurs continuously throughout life, without reason, in the form of what?

What is contingency

300

This was the type of accident that Pascal experienced, which led him to turn his attention to religion later in life.

What is a near-death experience

300

This is the moral obligation that existentialists believe we have to prescribe a moral philosophy for everyone else, since we are completely responsible for our own actions.

What is that we create our morality

400

This is the philosopher who posed the thought experiment about whether the soul of a prince could "enter and inform the body of a cobbler."

Who is John Locke

400

The passage contrasts a life of this, which it states better than a "pig satisfied," with a life of "bovine contentment or frivolous amusements only."

What are mindless pleasures?
400

This type of person tries to eliminate their freedom by subordinating it to absolute values and denying their subjectivity.

Who is the serious man

400

Pascal believed that this faculty, rather than just reason, is important for understanding God.

What is the heart

400

This is the concept that describes how people are able to give a fully human response to any situation when they are fully absorbed in it as human beings.

What is the division of labor

500

This is the feminist philosopher argued that pregnancy and motherhood are not necessarily passive or tedious processes, but can have liberatory potential.

Who is Sara Ruddick
500

The passage discusses how we would prefer a life with this type of happiness curve over one with the opposite type of curve.

What is an upward-sloping happiness curve

500

This is the "agonizing consciousness" that the sub-man tries to efface but cannot escape.

What is freedom

500
Pascal argued that we must make this type of choice, even if we cannot know the outcome with certainty.
What is a wager
500

This is the concept that describes how we must define our own essence since there is no God to define it for us, according to Sarte.

What is that existence precedes essence?

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