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Chapter 22 Self-Quiz
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Kierkegaard's young man, A, searching for a way to keep life interesting, advises that you
learn the art of remembering and forgetting.
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find an interesting wife or husband.
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try to imitate the life of Don Juan, who certainly had an interesting time of it.
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travel to exotic places.
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Judge William's either/or, he tells us, represents
choosing or not (really, seriously, passionately) choosing.
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a choice between good and evil lives.
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the choice between living ethically or living religiously.
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the fact that whatever you choose, you will regret it.
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The life of faith, Kierkegaard and his pseudonyms tell us,
is the most otherworldly life imaginable.
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is a stage we go through on the way toward rational understanding.
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is a life of the greatest passion, the most intense inwardness.
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is the life lived by the Knight of Infinite Resignation, who resigns (lets go of) everything earthly.
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Despair
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can manifest itself as being willing, defiantly, to be oneself.
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is the opposite of virtue.
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can be dispelled by chanting the mantra: "I'm OK, I'm OK. . . ."
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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.
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A logical system is impossible.
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A system can develop internally through time, as Hegel clearly showed us.
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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.
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Marx agrees with Hegel that
history is fundamentally the story of the development of consciousness.
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it is not enough to understand the world; philosophers should seek to change it.
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antagonism and opposition have characterized history to this day.
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the evils of history have no resolution and must simply be born with resignation.
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Private property, according to Marx,
develops as a natural right in the state of nature.
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will be protected in a good state more securely than it now is.
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will be multiplied and shared by all when machines replace workers on the assembly lines.
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is the product of alienated labor.
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Marx holds that class struggle
will cease after a workers' revolution in which they seize control of the means of production.
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cannot ever be wholly eliminated because of the greed of human beings.
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is gradually diminishing in the wake of the explosion of goods available to all.
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is fundamentally a matter of class envy.
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