Trauma and the Undoing of the Self (Brison)
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)
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
The child feels this way within their own circle, but must respect and obey the "real world" of what?
What are adults
This French mathematician and philosopher made significant contributions to probability theory and the foundations of calculus.
Who is Blaise Pascal
This is the philosophical view that existence precedes essence and that humans must define their own meaning.
What is existentialism
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
The passage argues that we desire an actual connection to this, not just the feeling of it.
What is reality
These are instilled in the child, leading them to believe in the existence of what as absolute ends?
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
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
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 happiness
This is the drama of original choice that occurs continuously throughout life, without reason, in the form of what?
What is contingency
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
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
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
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."
This type of person tries to eliminate their freedom by subordinating it to absolute values and denying their subjectivity.
Who is the serious man
Pascal believed that this faculty, rather than just reason, is important for understanding God.
What is the heart
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
This is the feminist philosopher argued that pregnancy and motherhood are not necessarily passive or tedious processes, but can have liberatory potential.
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
This is the "agonizing consciousness" that the sub-man tries to efface but cannot escape.
What is freedom
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?