Sartre and Existentialism Flashcards
________ and ______ ____________ had a lot in common, not the least of which was that their lives were, to one degree or another, shaped by the rise of the Nazi Party and Hitler.
Sartre and Charlie Chaplin
Sartre studied philosophy in Paris and by ____ was teaching philosophy.
1931
When the Germans invaded Paris in _____ in changed Sartre from an academic to a _______ fighter against the Nazis.
1940, resistance
On a philosophical level, the rise of the Nazi party changed Sartre into a passionate defender of the ________, the ‘________ of the earth’.
oppressed, wretched
Sartre was captured and imprisoned and came to realize how alone he was, and that only he can make the situation meaningful to himself. After the war, Sartre because a ________ for a while.
communist
Sartre’s belief in communism was shattered when the Soviets attacked _______ in 1956.
Hungary
Soren __________, a 19th century Danish philosopher who was raised in devout Lutheran, adopted the Lutheran ideal that everyone has a ________ relationship with God.
Kierkegaard, direct
Ethics is
when people must make and judge their own moral choices.
In Kierkegaard’s view making authentic choices was _______.
paramount
Authentic choices involve
consistency of perception, thought and action.
An inauthentic person ____ _______ from responsibility. of creating themselves through choices and allows others to do it for them.
runs away
Sartre never married, but his lifelong companion was _______ __ ____________, an influential feminist. Sartre never published anything without having her read it first.
Simone de Beauvoir
Sartre made it his life’s work to improve the ________ and _________ conditions of the day.
social, political
Sartre provided the philosophical foundation for a whole generation of young philosophers who ignited the _______ movement in the 1960’s.
youth
Sartre himself was an ________, Soren Kierkegaard was a firm believer in the existence of _____. Both were existentialists.
atheist, God
