Part I.  Passage Id’s

A. Identify the Author
B. Identify the Work or if you don’t know the work give the name of any major work of that author.

C. Explain how the passage illustrates some main theme of that author’s work. (One Blue Book page limit)

II. Terms: Define them as they are used by some Existentialist thinker. (Identify the thinker who uses them)

Knight of  Infinite Resignation        Teleological Suspension  of the Ethical        Laceration

Will to Power                     Existenz                Dasein                  alethes                  Being

Bad Faith                             Master                  Slave                     Philosophical Suicide

Nausea                                 absurd                   superman              herd                       nihilism

Absolute                              faith                      anxiety (dread)

III. Ideas:

Explain the idea and illustrate it from at least three thinkers we have studied.

Alienation from the World                              Intentionality                      The eternal moment

Self-Alienation (Bad Faith)              Living without Appeal (Restriction to the values of Human Existence)

Human Freedom

IV. What is the basic task or project of existentialism?  For three thinkers we have studied, explain how they attempt to carry this out this project  and evaluate how successful they are.