Kierkegaard’s Knight of Faith

1. Is Father Paneloux a good example of Kierkegaard’s Knight of Faith? Explain and defend your answer.
2. Compare, analyze, and evaluate Kierkegaard’s notion of despair and Sartre’s notion of “bad faith” and/or “anguish.”
3. Compare, analyze, and evaluate the way Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre (or just two of them) think of “faith.”
4. Explain, analyze, and evaluate Nietzsche’s claim on pp. 127-128: “No, this bad taste, this will to truth, to ‘truth at any price,’ this juvenile lunacy in the love of truth has been spoiled for us; we are too experienced for that, too serious, too playful, too burned, too deep. We no longer believe that truth remains truth when one snatches its veils away; we have lived too much to believe this. For us today it is a matter of decorum that one not wish to see everything in the nude, not wish to witness everything, to understand and ‘know’ it all.”
5. Compare, analyze, and evaluate Heidegger’s concept of “anxiety” and Kierkegaard’s concept of “despair.”
6. Explain, analyze and evaluate Heidegger’s understanding of “equipment.” How is this supposed to overcome the more traditional philosophical distinction between subject and object?
7. Is The Plague “existentialist” in the sense this concept is developed by Sartre?
8. In the closing lines of Sartre’s “The Humanism of Existentialism” he suggests that the Christian’s despair is the same has that of the existentialist. Explain, analyze, and evaluate that claim.
9. Is 8 1/2 an "existentialist" film? Support your claim with at quotes from the selections from Sartre

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