Descartes
What is the purpose of Descartes’ meditations? What is he trying to obtain?
truth
Hume argues that our knowledge of cause and effect is not discovered through this type of reasoning.
Reasoning a priori
The child feels this way within their own circle, but must respect and obey the "real world" of what?
Adults
Is existentialism inherently atheist or theist?
It is inherently neither
What metaphorical space represents human ignorance, where the prisoners are chained and can only see the shadows on the wall?
The cave
What simple arithmetic problem should be called into doubt due to the deception from an evil genius?
2 + 3 = 5
Pascal compared belief in God to this game of chance, where one must make a strategic decision with potentially infinite consequences.
What is the "agonizing consciousness" that the sub-man tries to efface but cannot escape?
Sartre argues that he will never agree that a sweeping _____ is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts. However, he believes that man is responsible for his _____.
passion, passion
In the Second Meditation, Descartes reflects on something that can change, yet remains the same substance to represent how knowledge uses intellect rather than the senses.
a piece of wax
In I Heart Huckabees, what does Albert experience as he confronts the meaningless patterns in his life which lead him to question his purpose?
anguish or angst
How does the passionate man cope with existence?
Devoting all choices made (his freedom) to the thing he loves
What 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?
Existence proceeds essence
How many arms and legs did human being used to have? What about heads and genitals? (according to Aristophanes)
4 arms, 4 legs, 2 heads, and 2 sets of genitals (either male or female)
Descartes employs this strategy to deliberately doubt all previously held beliefs.
Radical doubt
What philosophy is taken into very different directions in the film “I Heart Huckabees”, namely by Caterine and the Jaffes?
existentialism
What psychological phase marks the transition where a child begins to question adult authority and discover their own subjectivity?
Adolescence
Sartre said this concept arises from confronting life without divine guidance or external moral absolutes.
Organize these things by how true they are, least to most, according to Plato’s theory of the forms.
Art
Mathematics
Photograph
A Chair
Art, Photograph, the Chair, Mathematics
According to Descartes, this is the one thing that he cannot doubt, as it is the foundation of his entire philosophical system.
"I think therefore I am" (Cogito ergo sum)
Human-inflicted trauma
This type of person tries to eliminate their freedom by subordinating it to absolute values and denying their subjectivity.
Serious man
According to Sarte, This term means that we shall confine ourselves to reckoning only with what depends upon our will, or on the ensemble of probabilities which make our action possible.
Despair