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Soren Kierkegaard believed that metaphysics could demonstrate that the world is fundamentally rational and that human life does have a clear meaning and purpose. |
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Arthur Schopenhauer thought that human actions are driven by a blind, purposeless will. |
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Existentialists believe that most people lead dull, senseless, trivial lives filled with anguish and despair. |
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Existentialists also believe that philosophy should focus on the big picture, not on individuals and their confrontation with the world. |
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For Albert Camus, suicide is a better option than simply rebelling against the absurdity of life. |
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Jean Paul Sartre thought that humans come into existence already with a purpose to their existence and thus a meaning to their lives. |
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According to Sartre, humans are both thrown into existence and condemned to freedom. |
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Edmund Husserl's "phenomenological reduction" attempts to study the stream of conscious experience without making any assumptions at all about the nature or existence of an external, objective world. |
| | A) | True |
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That minds and their ideas are superior to and should thus control any nonmental reality is an idea highly endorsed by Martin Heidegger. |
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According to the later Heidegger, we should dwell simply in Being, not in the thingafied world of modern, technical man. |
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In Jurgen Habermas' ideal speech situation, only those with knowledge of and respect for the controlling ideology of a society should be allowed to participate. |
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Michel Foucault's study of discourse revealed to him a steady advancement of truth over superstition as time goes by. |
| | A) | True |
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For structuralists like Ferdinand Saussure, the meaning of a sign (signifier) rests in its contrast with other signs that could be, but are not, present. |
| | A) | True |
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Deconstruction attempts to find the essential meaning of a text from among the many possible meanings. |
| | A) | True |
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For Jacques Derrida, the meaning of words is not stable. |
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Claude Lévi Strauss abandoned Saussure's methods while conducting his ethnographic research. |
| | A) | True |
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Jacques Derrida followed the deconstructive method. |
| | A) | True |
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Michael Foucault wrote The History of Sexuality. |
| | A) | True |
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Jurgen Habermas' views were considered Marxist. |
| | A) | True |
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Alain Badiou held that philosophers can learn nothing from mathematicians. |
| | A) | True |
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