philosophy essay questions

ESSAY QUESTIONS

· Your responses to essay questions should be between 400-500 words for each response.

1. Describe Master Morality and Slave Morality in detail. Which of the two moralities comes first, and how does the one change into the other? Which of the two moralities do you think Nietzsche would claim United States of America currently falls into, and why? Give examples to back up your argument.

2. What exactly does Ortega-y-Gasset mean by the “the rebellion the masses”? Do you agree with his assessment? Why or why not?

3. Explain the full significance of Jean-Paul Sartre’s claim that existentialism is nothing else than an attempt to draw all the consequences of a coherent atheistic position. “Do you think he succeeds in doing so? Why or why not?