Chapter 22 Self-Quiz

. Kierkegaard's young man, A, searching for a way to keep life interesting, advises that you

learn the art of remembering and forgetting.

find an interesting wife or husband.

try to imitate the life of Don Juan, who certainly had an interesting time of it.

travel to exotic places.

. Judge William's either/or, he tells us, represents

choosing or not (really, seriously, passionately) choosing.

a choice between good and evil lives.

the choice between living ethically or living religiously.

the fact that whatever you choose, you will regret it.

. The life of faith, Kierkegaard and his pseudonyms tell us,

is the most otherworldly life imaginable.

is a stage we go through on the way toward rational understanding.

is a life of the greatest passion, the most intense inwardness.

is the life lived by the Knight of Infinite Resignation, who resigns (lets go of) everything earthly.

. Despair

occurs when something really goes badly wrong in life.

can manifest itself as being willing, defiantly, to be oneself.

is the opposite of virtue.

can be dispelled by chanting the mantra: "I'm OK, I'm OK. . . ."

. With respect to the notion of a "system," Kierkegaard's pseudonym Johannes Climacus says:

Have a system, or do not have a system, you will regret both.

A logical system is impossible.

A system can develop internally through time, as Hegel clearly showed us.

Since a system of reality is not possible for us, the highest truth available for us is an objective uncertainty held fast in passionate inwardness.

. Marx agrees with Hegel that

history is fundamentally the story of the development of consciousness.

it is not enough to understand the world; philosophers should seek to change it.

antagonism and opposition have characterized history to this day.

the evils of history have no resolution and must simply be born with resignation.

. Private property, according to Marx,

develops as a natural right in the state of nature.

will be protected in a good state more securely than it now is.

will be multiplied and shared by all when machines replace workers on the assembly lines.

is the product of alienated labor.

. Marx holds that class struggle

will cease after a workers' revolution in which they seize control of the means of production.

cannot ever be wholly eliminated because of the greed of human beings.

is gradually diminishing in the wake of the explosion of goods available to all.

is fundamentally a matter of class envy.

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