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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Beauvoir compare women to slaves?
2. How does Beauvoir explain how the passionate man different from the adventurer man?
3. During their stage of freedom, how does Beauvoir claim that a child sees adults?
4. What does Beauvoir define as the drama of original choice?
5. What does Beauvoir claim comes, "...between the past which no longer is and the future which is not yet,..."?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Beauvoir claim one can avoid nihilism?
2. How does Beauvoir show that the "sub-man" passes into being a serious man?
3. How does Beauvoir claim that man can disclose being?
4. What type of adults does Beauvoir claim stays in an infantile world?
5. According to Beauvoir, how have existentialists defined their philosophy?
6. How does Beauvoir explain that adult lives can slip by in an infantile world?
7. Upon what basis does Beauvoir suggest that a man decides upon what he wants to be?
8. What does Beauvoir point out as the difference between the passionate man and the adventurer?
9. What are two descriptions that Beauvoir gives to man at the beginning of Part I, Ambiguity and Freedom?
10. How does Beauvoir explain that willing bad is possible?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Beauvoir refers to Karl Marx throughout "The Ethics of Ambiguity". Analyze Beauvoir's position on Marxism through her several references. Cite your agreement or disagreement with Beauvoir's position based history of communism since 1948 and commentaries by either Marx or detractors of Marxism.
Essay Topic 2
How does Beauvoir claim that a "serious man" becomes nihilistic and what are the affects of nihilism on the individual? What are the consequences to the "serious man" if he resists the impulses that lead to nihilism? How does individual acceptance or rejection of nihilism influence an environment or community.
Essay Topic 3
Examine Beauvoir's views on how science, art, technology (technics), and philosophy can either add to or detract from freedom. After the general examination of the four, choose one and detail how Beauvoir's points are proven in modern applications.
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