Exam 5: Self

__________ thought that anyone who "follows the crowd" and didn't live passionately as an individual could not even be said to exist.

In her groundbreaking work The Second Sex, __________ sets out to determine the causes of the cross-cultural tendency to treat women as second-class members of society by comparison to men.

_____________ argued that there were no set standards for self-identity, either for individuals or for people in general. There was no such thing as "human nature," and what we are-and what it means to be a human being-was always a matter of decision. There is no correct choice; there are only choices.

Kierkegaard believed that social identity was the only relevant identity.

_____________, in his novel Steppenwolf, presented a character whose "self" was a multiple or pluralistic self. Harry Haller lives with the myth of "two selves": one human, rational, and well behaved; the other beastly, wild, and wolf like. Harry's unhappiness stems from his oversimplified notion of self.

Bad faith is when you refuse to acknowledge yourself as you are.

Jean-Paul Sartre argued that the self was determined by facts and future projections.

For the ancient philosopher, _____________, self-identity was essentially bodily identity, without any particular reference to self-consciousness..

In contemporary times, the question of how individuals are defined by or in society is a deeply __________ issue.

Write your account of a debate among Hume, Kant, and Kierkegaard on the nature of the self. Do Hume and Kierkegaard wind up agreeing with one another?