Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Descartes 
B)  Kierkegaard 
C)  Sartre 
D)  Kant

Question 2

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Michaels 
B)  Beauvoir 
C)  Ferguson 
D)  Hesse

Question 3

_____________ 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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Sartre 
B)  Derrida 
C)  Heidegger 
D)  Kierkegaard

Question 4

Kierkegaard believed that social identity was the only relevant identity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

_____________, 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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Sartre 
B)  Derrida 
C)  Laozi 
D)  Hesse

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Aristotle 
B)  Thales 
C)  Plato 
D)  Socrates

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of In contemporary times, the question of how...

Question 10

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?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Write your account of a debate among...

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.

Kierkegaard believed that social identity was the only relevant identity.

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?