De Beauvoir

Question 1

existentialism

Answer 1

A Philosophical movement that emphasizes human freedom and responsibility

Question 2

transendence

Answer 2

Those aspects of one’s existence that are conciously chosen. Contrast with Immanence, which refers to the lack or ability or opportunity to make such choices.

Question 3

bad faith

Answer 3

an existentialist term that refers to someone who denies either their facticity or their transcendence. Self-deception.

Question 4

Immanence

Answer 4

the lack of ability or opportunity to make conscious choices.

Question 5

en-soi

Answer 5

literally “in-itself”; refers to the nonhuman aspect of being, an contrast the is devoid of conscious choice and freedom.

Question 6

facticity

Answer 6

extistentialist term for those things about a person that cannot be changed, like the year one was born.

Question 7

nominalism

Answer 7

the metaphysical view that ony particular things are real and that universals are abstractions or linguistic contruction having no real existence.

Question 8

rationalism

Answer 8

the philosophical position that knowledge or truth is not derived from the senses but from rational intuition plus deductive reasoning