Descartes
What is Descartes certain of?
That he is a thinking thing/being.
What are the three types of people that Plato believes existed?
Androgynous, male and male, and female and female
Where does De Beauvoir say that Man's unhappiness comes from?
Him first being a child.
What are the two kinds of existentialists?
Christians and Atheistic
What is the definition of deon?
Duty
Why does Descartes doubt all thoughts?
Because he believes that there could be an evil genius tricking our senses to make us believe our thoughts are true.
Does Plato believe we will ever have love?
No, because we desire love and cannot desire things that we have.
What are the different types of "man"?
Serious, Nihilist, Demoniacal, Adventurer, Passionate, and Genuinely Free
Who is a man responsible for other than himself?
All men.
Describe the trolley problem.
An example used that gives you the option to kill three people that are on the railroad or kill one person on the other railroad.
In the third meditation, who does Descartes want to prove exists?
God
Plato uses the Allegory of the Cave to describe how people can live without knowing the truth. Give a brief summary of this example.
A bunch of people live in a cave, not knowing the truth. One person leaves the cave and learns the truth by seeing the sun and the sky. When he returns to the cave, the people do not believe him and try to kill him.
This type of man wishes to be nothing and is similar to the spirit of seriousness.
Nihilist
Existentialism means that existence precedes essence. What does this mean?
Existence precedes essence means that we decide our own purpose in life and are not given this predetermined purpose before we exist.
What was the purpose of the Chinese Room experiment?
To argue against the idea that a computer can truly understand language or "think" as humans do, even with complex programming.
Descartes started his philosophy by doubting everything to find what?
Truth
What is the highest form of love?
Eros
According to De Beauvoir, what is bad faith?
The act of denying ones' freedom and responsibility by conforming to societal roles or expectations instead of embracing ones' true self.
Why must men live in anguish?
Because of the responsibility that men have when making decisions with their freedom of choice.
What was the main point of Susan Brison's book 'Aftermath'?
To show how trauma affects a person and how one can rebuild themselves after they experience trauma. They are the same physically but not mentally.
Descartes believed the mind and body were two separate things, a belief called what?
Dualism
What is the main thing that people desire and seek?
Love
What is transcendence in De Beauvoir's philosophy?
The ability to go beyond limitations and create one's own path. He believes true freedom involves pursuing transcendence.
Why would existentialists find it distressing to hear that there is no God?
Because all possibility of finding values in heaven would disappear and there would no longer be a priori Good.
From the section " The problem of Personal Identity" How does David Humes view Human Beings?
David Humes believes that Human Beings are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions