Philosophy Anthropology A - Test Study Guide Rated A+

Sartre's motion on freedom {Ans: autonomy of choice (determining one's own goals and purposes) NOT include guarantee to attain/fulfill these goals but to strive towards them. We are the authors of our life projects that give us meaning and purposes, we determine what it means for us to be a human being}Essence of a thing {Ans: properties/qualities which make it what it is, ie distinguishes it}Facticity of human beings' freedom {Ans: we do not choose to be free and undetermined, we were 'thrown' into this life and we are not free to reject our freedom}Human essentialism {Ans: View that there is a human nature, an essence of what it means to be human}Aristotles rationality {Ans: neither instrumental nor integral, human rationality extends to choice of goals and purposes not only how to get to goals}Humanism {Ans: intellectual and spiritual current, often associated with the Renaissance, that emphasizes human dignity and elevation over the rest of nature (mostly) on a secular, non-religious basis}