Intro to Existentialism

According to Nietzsche, what is the übermensche?

• The name for everyone's evil doppelganger

• The ideal human being and ultimate goal of humanity

• A man with superhuman strength

• A person who has reached enlightenment

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What is the "Theory of Forms"?

• Camus's theory that human beings must learn to love the "struggle"

• Plato's theory that the cave is safer than the real world

• Nietzsche's theory that there is no real right or wrong

• Plato's theory that the physical world is not as real as ideas

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What is "Absurdism"?

• The belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless

• The belief that there is a perfect human being

• Any religious belief

• The belief that those that are different than us can never understand our ideas

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What is existentialism?

• The belief that everyone must make their own meaning in life

• The belief that there is no universal morality that governs all of us

• The belief that there is no predetermined or fixed definition of what it means to be human

• The belief that the self is all that can be known to exist

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Where and when was Existentialism popularized?

• After World War I in Great Britain

• After World War II in France

• During the Islamic Revolution in Iran

• In the late 1900s in America

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What point does Camus make in his essay on the "Myth of Sisyphus"?

• The only way to distract yourself from your fate is to believe in God

• If you deceive others, you will suffer an awful fate

• There is no meaning to life and mankind was created in order to sugger

• Even though man is condemned to repeat the same meaningless tasks forever, he can still find joy in it

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What does Camus think people should do in response to absurdism?

• Embrace it

• Give up

• Try to find meaning

• Find God

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