Exam 18: Philosophy As a Way of Life

Do you believe that human life is more sacred than that on a dog? Do you believe this in all cases even in cases where the human being is severely impaired? Explain and justify your answer.

Sartre thought that evil was merely an abstraction.

The assumption that rationality should be associated with masculinity is now being challenged.

Singer advocates

Who is the dangerous philosopher ?

A philosophical advocate only opposes real injustices.

In 1964 King received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Who wrote that the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul?

Sartre believed that we live lives without God.

What percentage of faculty in top 20 philosophy departments in America are women?

Do you believe that philosophers have a social responsibility to advocate for wise public policy decision? Why, or why not? Offer examples of persons who have done so in answering this question.

What ancient influences can you detect in the philosophy of both Sartre and Nussbaum?

Which ancient schools of thought saw the philosopher as a compassionate physician?

Is ethical theory of any use in real life? Explain and justify your answer.

Sartre claimed that man was condemned to be free.

Martin Luther King, Jr., gave the I have a dream speech.

Philosophical advocates are always professionally trained philosophers.

Sartre never met Albert Camus.

Sartre believed that we have no fixed selves.

Sartre was a prisoner of war.