The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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The Ethics of Ambiguity; Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Personal Freedom and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Beauvoir define materialist philosophers?
(a) Those who "conceive all matter as eternal".
(b) Those who "see no life after this one".
(c) Those who have "striven to reduce mind to matter".
(d) Those who see "no value in thought".

2. How does Beauvoir identify dualism?
(a) They are thinkers that establish a hierarchy between body and soul.
(b) They are thinkers that believe that the only two human values are life and death.
(c) They are thinkers that claim that each individual is destined to live a brief physical life and an eternal spiritual life.
(d) They are thinkers that set to prove that each life has a dual existence in a different dimension.

3. How does Beauvoir compare women to slaves?
(a) By pointing out that women are subject to the laws, gods, customs, and truths created by males.
(b) By pointing out that women create an existence in their minds that escapes the reality of the world around them.
(c) By pointing out that many women choose to be ignorant of the condition of the world.
(d) By pointing out that women base their success on the contentment of their families.

4. Beauvoir claims that dualists use their basic belief to establish what idea?
(a) To diminish the part of the self that cannot be saved.
(b) To guide their adherents to prepare exclusively for the after life.
(c) To embrace nihilism.
(d) To seek to find life on other planets.

5. How does Beauvoir accuse Marxists of accepting moral superiority?
(a) By considering any movement in which a Marxist is involved to be part of the revolution of the proletariat.
(b) When Marxists find fault with their adversaries and charge them with cowardice, lying, selfishness, and venality.
(c) By being suspicious of any bourgeois revolution.
(d) By morally condemning any member of the proletariat who does not participate in revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Beauvoir, how is freedom present within the drama of choice?

2. What does Beauvoir claim defines the "sub-man"?

3. What is the focus of the adventurer?

4. What does Descartes credit man's unhappiness to, according to Beauvoir?

5. How does the child's life begin actually become serious according to Beauvoir?

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