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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder
The Continental Tradition

Short Answer



1

What are some of the main themes of existentialism?
2

How did Albert Camus describe the existential predicament?
3

What did Camus think the best solution is to the existential predicament?
4

What did Jean-Paul Sartre mean when he said that, for man, existence precedes essence?
5

What is anguish, according to Sartre?
6

What are the two ways of dealing with anguish, according to Sartre?
7

What in general does phenomenology attempt to do?
8

Why is modern man so alienated, alone, and unhappy, according to Martin Heidegger in Being and Time?
9

What do the concepts of everydayness and chatter have to do with each other, according to the early Heidegger?
10

How did the later Heidegger recommend that we cope with the existential predicament?








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