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What are some of the main themes of existentialism? |
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How did Albert Camus describe the existential predicament? |
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What did Camus think the best solution is to the existential predicament? |
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What did Jean-Paul Sartre mean when he said that, for man, existence precedes essence? |
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What is anguish, according to Sartre? |
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What are the two ways of dealing with anguish, according to Sartre? |
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What in general does phenomenology attempt to do? |
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Why is modern man so alienated, alone, and unhappy, according to Martin Heidegger in Being and Time? |
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What do the concepts of everydayness and chatter have to do with each other, according to the early Heidegger? |
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How did the later Heidegger recommend that we cope with the existential predicament? |
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What major assumption of traditional science does Jurgen Habermas question when it comes to the study of humans, and why? |
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What did Michel Foucault mean by discourse, and why did he think that reality is invented, not discovered? |
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What do structuralists mean by a sign, and how do they explain the meaning of a sign? |
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Explain what Jacques Derrida means by privilege, difference, and the free play of signifiers. |
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Why does Richard Rorty reject the notion of truth as "the way the world is", and what alternative does he put in its place? |
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Is it possible to detect one's own ideological biases? |
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Do human being use language, or does language "use" human beings? Discuss. |
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Do all oppressed groups suffer? Are all groups that suffer oppressed? |
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Must a technocratic society also be a dehumanizing society? |
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What attitudes do we harbor today concerning madness and sexuality? |
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