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Questions
1. Which one is a meaning-forsaking value?
a- prioritizing the present over the future
b- prioritizing truth over falsehood
c- being humble and compassionate
d- prioritizing family over oneself
2. Why is Michael Jackson's "The Man in the Mirror" an "existential" song?
a- because it resembles Melville's book "Moby Dick"
b- because it makes people feel alive
c- because it gives people hope
d- because it makes us responsible for the change we want to see in ourselves and in the world
3. Promoting nihilistic or meaning-forsaking values has the potential of...
a- making people engage in sociopathic or criminal behavior
b- making people believe in themselves
c- turning people into cultural relativists
d- making people more tolerant
4. This thinker clearly understands the positive value of suffering:
a- Khalil Gibran
b- Rousseau
c- Melville
d- sarte
5. Who is more deterministic in his way of thinking?
a- hobbes
b- someone who blames others for there failures
c- sarte
d- melville
6. Which one is more of an existential thinker?
a- mellville
b- rousseau
c- hobbes
d- there all existential thinkers