Existentialism

True or false? The following statement aligns with Existential belief: There is an exact pattern to life. You are destined to be who you are.

• True

• False

True or False? All Existentialists are agnostic.

• True

• False

If an Existentialist is also agnostic, s/he ...

• is typically Christian.

• is most likely a Hindu.

• believes that God is disconnected from the lives of people.

• believes in multiple gods.

Fill in the blank. ____________________ is central to human existence.

• Love

• God

• Choice

• Essence

According to Existential belief, who is responsible for the choices a person makes?

• the individual

• God

• fate

• the universe

Fill in the blank. ___________________ and the risk and responsibility that come with it is the only path to ________________________ for an Existentialist.

• personal experience/true understanding

• personal choice/true freedom

• personal choice/heaven

• breaking norms/true freedom

What is an Absurd Hero?

• someone who recognizes life's meaning, and lives in the moment.

• someone who recognizes the pointlessness of life, accepts it, and makes a choice to live with passion anyway.

• someone who knows life has meaning, and helps other to seek meaning for their own lives.

• someone who recognizes the pointlessness of life, fights against it, and makes a choice to fight for the free will of humanity.

Which ONE of the following statements about Albert Camus is TRUE?

• His writing reflects an indifferent, meaningless universe.

• He was a dentist.

• He wrote from an existential/absurd point of view, but he was deeply religious.

• He is a writer, but he is most well-known for discovering the vaccine for tuberculosis.

Existentialism argues that _____ precedes essence…

• Existance

• Knowledge

• Movement

• A Science

For the existentialists, the world has a meaning?

• True

• False