Deck 8: Existentialism and Phenomenology: Key Concepts and Thinkers

Question 1

According to phenomenology is subservient to fundamental ontology .

A)Heidegger
B)Bretano
C)Gadamer
D)Derrida

Answer 1

Heidegger

Question 2

--------- claims that existence is the only essence that consciousness has.

A)Sartre
B)Bretano
C)Gadamer
D)Derrida

Answer 2

Sartre

Question 3

--------------- is the founder of phenomenology.

A)Sartre
B)Husserl
C)Gadamer
D)Derrida

Answer 3

Husserl

Question 4

According to Frege Husserl was a proponent of -------------.

A)Naturalism
B)functionalism
C)materialism
D)psychologism

Question 5

According to ---------"A human being is absolutely free and absolutely responsible. Anguish is the result."

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Marcel

Question 6

According to -----------"Existence precedes essence." 7

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Marcel

Question 7

According to--------- man is condemned to be free.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Marcel

Question 8

----------- essential description of consciousness is simply that consciousness is always consciousness of something, but by itself is nothing.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Marcel

Question 9

The facticity of freedom according to ------- is the fact that human beings are not free to not be free.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Marcel

Question 10

According to -------------bad faith is our attempt to avoid our own freedom.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Marcel

Question 11

------------ used the example of understanding a sentence as an example of the circular course of hermeneutic understanding.

A)Dilthey
B)Gadamer
C)Husserl
D)Habermas

Question 12

The --------------- circle is one of the most fundamental and contentious doctrines of hermeneutical theory.

A)Existential
B)phenomenological
C)Hermeneutic
D)none of these

Question 13

___________ is a theistic existentialist.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)none of these

Question 14

--------- defines consciousness in terms of nothingness.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)none of these

Question 15

------------- is an atheistic existentialist.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)none of these

Question 16

According to ----------- subjective truth cannot be represented with the categories of abstract reason.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Kierkegaard

Question 17

------------------- is the author of Sickness unto Death.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Kierkegaard

Question 18

Existentialism s a humanism is an article by ---------.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Kierkegaard

Question 19

------------------- is the author of Either /or

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Kierkegaard

Question 20

'Existence precedes essence' is a famous dictum by-------------.

A)Sartre
B)Camus
C)Jaspers
D)Kierkegaard

Question 21

Kierkegaard was the first person to use existence in a ----------- sense .

A)Religious
B)historic
C)practical
D)absurd

Question 22

Søren Kierkegaard identified ---- possible stages that a person can move through in their lifetime.

A)2
B)3
C)4
D)5

Question 23

The main motivation in ------------stage is pleasure.

A)Aesthetic
B)Ethical
C)Existential
D)religious

Question 24

In the --------- stage we feel responsibilities toward others - both particular others and others in general.

A)Aesthetic
B)Ethical
C)Existential
D)religious