Question 1

"Falling-away-from" is characterized by

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A)  an acute understanding of our inauthenticity. 
B)  fleeing in the face of anxiety. 
C)  fleeing the world of the "They." 
D)  fleeing toward death. 
A)  an acute understanding of our inauthenticity. 
B)  fleeing in the face of anxiety. 
C)  fleeing the world of the "They." 
D)  fleeing toward death. B

Question 2

In average everydayness, Dasein

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A)  is the "I myself." 
B)  is unconcerned with the "distance" between itself and the Others. 
C)  falls-in-with-the-One. 
D)  is saddled with answerability for the way things go. 
A)  is the "I myself." 
B)  is unconcerned with the "distance" between itself and the Others. 
C)  falls-in-with-the-One. 
D)  is saddled with answerability for the way things go. C

Question 3

In authentic existence, Dasein

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A)  anticipates its own death. 
B)  finds its own pure essence, distinct from the They-self, and remains true to it. 
C)  is true to its own understanding of itself as other-than-the-They. 
D)  is motivated by curiosity to find the truth. 
A)  anticipates its own death. 
B)  finds its own pure essence, distinct from the They-self, and remains true to it. 
C)  is true to its own understanding of itself as other-than-the-They. 
D)  is motivated by curiosity to find the truth. A

Question 4

"Everyone is the other, and no one is himself." Explain.

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Question 5

Descartes thinks that solipsism is a real possibility, one that needs to be ruled out by rational argument. Explain why he thinks this. Then discuss that claim from the point of view of Martin Heidegger.

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Descartes thinks that solipsism is a rea

Question 6

Heidegger chooses Dasein as the entity to interrogate as a first step toward uncovering the meaning of Being because

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A)  he is not yet sure that anything else exists. 
B)  an understanding of Being is a definite characteristic of Dasein's Being. 
C)  Dasein is a subject, and whatever has Being has it relative to some subject. 
D)  he's got to start somewhere. 
A)  he is not yet sure that anything else exists. 
B)  an understanding of Being is a definite characteristic of Dasein's Being. 
C)  Dasein is a subject, and whatever has Being has it relative to some subject. 
D)  he's got to start somewhere.

Question 7

Anxiety

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A)  needs to be overcome if we are to be authentic. 
B)  reveals how far from the truth we have strayed. 
C)  has as its object something determinately impending as a threat to Dasein's Being. 
D)  motivates falling-away-from-ourselves into the tranquilizing world of what "they" say. 
A)  needs to be overcome if we are to be authentic. 
B)  reveals how far from the truth we have strayed. 
C)  has as its object something determinately impending as a threat to Dasein's Being. 
D)  motivates falling-away-from-ourselves into the tranquilizing world of what "they" say.

Question 8

What is authentic existence?

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Question 9

What does Heidegger mean by the "present-at-hand," and what is its relationship to scientific inquiry?

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Question 10

Is it correct to call Heidegger an "existentialist"? Give some reasons for thinking this is appropriate and some for thinking it a mistake.

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It is a matter of debate whether it is c

Question 11

What are the main modes of disclosure for Dasein, and how do they turn inauthentic?

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Question 12

Compare Heidegger's concept of thrownness-into-the-world-of-the-One to Wittgenstein's notion of the "picture of the world" that forms the "inherited background" against which we distinguish between true and false.

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Heidegger's concept of thrownness-into-t

Question 13

Can Dasein be understood as a totality?

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Question 14

How does Heidegger understand conscience?

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Question 15

What is the problem Heidegger is concerned with, why is it a problem, and how does he propose to address it?

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Question 16

As Being-toward-death, Dasein

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A)  necessarily flees in the face of this possibility. 
B)  can be understood as a totality. 
C)  recognizes its guilt for not having done what it ought. 
D)  identifies itself as something immortal, despite appearances. 
A)  necessarily flees in the face of this possibility. 
B)  can be understood as a totality. 
C)  recognizes its guilt for not having done what it ought. 
D)  identifies itself as something immortal, despite appearances.

Question 17

The meaning of Dasein's Being, Care,

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A)  is Being-itself. 
B)  manifests itself in Dasein as worry-as-such. 
C)  shows that the best thing for man is never to have been born. 
D)  shows itself in having been, making present, and being always ahead of itself. 
A)  is Being-itself. 
B)  manifests itself in Dasein as worry-as-such. 
C)  shows that the best thing for man is never to have been born. 
D)  shows itself in having been, making present, and being always ahead of itself.

Question 18

Dasein is "ontically distinguished by the fact that, in its very Being, that Being is an issue for it." Explain.

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Question 19

As Being-in-the-world, Dasein

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A)  includes the world as a proper part of its own Being. 
B)  exists primordially as present-at-hand. 
C)  is immersed in a world of gear or equipment. 
D)  exists independently of others, with whom it must make connection if there is to be a common world. 
A)  includes the world as a proper part of its own Being. 
B)  exists primordially as present-at-hand. 
C)  is immersed in a world of gear or equipment. 
D)  exists independently of others, with whom it must make connection if there is to be a common world.

Question 20

How does Heidegger understand Dasein's Being-in-the-world?

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Exam 27: Martin Heidegger: The Meaning of Being

"Falling-away-from" is characterized by

In average everydayness, Dasein

In authentic existence, Dasein

"Everyone is the other, and no one is himself." Explain.

Descartes thinks that solipsism is a real possibility, one that needs to be ruled out by rational argument. Explain why he thinks this. Then discuss that claim from the point of view of Martin Heidegger.

Heidegger chooses Dasein as the entity to interrogate as a first step toward uncovering the meaning of Being because

Anxiety

What is authentic existence?

What does Heidegger mean by the "present-at-hand," and what is its relationship to scientific inquiry?

Is it correct to call Heidegger an "existentialist"? Give some reasons for thinking this is appropriate and some for thinking it a mistake.

What are the main modes of disclosure for Dasein, and how do they turn inauthentic?

Compare Heidegger's concept of thrownness-into-the-world-of-the-One to Wittgenstein's notion of the "picture of the world" that forms the "inherited background" against which we distinguish between true and false.

Can Dasein be understood as a totality?

How does Heidegger understand conscience?

What is the problem Heidegger is concerned with, why is it a problem, and how does he propose to address it?

As Being-toward-death, Dasein

The meaning of Dasein's Being, Care,

Dasein is "ontically distinguished by the fact that, in its very Being, that Being is an issue for it." Explain.

As Being-in-the-world, Dasein

How does Heidegger understand Dasein's Being-in-the-world?

Before Philosophy: Myth in Hesiod and Homer

Philosophy Before Socrates

Appearance and Reality in Ancient India

The Sophists: Rhetoric and Relativism in Athens

Reason and Relativism in China

Socrates: to Know Oneself

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Plato: Knowing the Real and the Good

Aristotle: The Reality of the World

Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi: Virtue in Ancient China

Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics: Happiness for the Many

Jews and Christians: Sin, Salvation, and Love

Augustine: God and the Soul

Philosophy in the Islamic World: The Great Conversation Spreads Out

Anselm and Aquinas: Existence and Essence in God and the World

From Medieval to Modern Europe

René Descartes: Doubting Our Way to Certainty

Hobbes, Locke, and Berkeley: Materialism and the Beginnings of Empiricism

David Hume: Unmasking the Pretensions of Reason

Immanuel Kant: Rehabilitating Reason Within Strict Limits

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Taking History Seriously

Kierkegaard and Marx: Two Ways to Correct Hegel

Moral and Political Reformers: The Happiness of All, Including Women

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Value of Existence

The Pragmatists: Thought and Action

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Linguistic Analysis and Ordinary Language

Simone De Beauvoir: Existentialist, Feminist

Postmodernism: Derrida, Foucault, and Rorty

Physical Realism and the Mind: Quine, Denne

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