Deck 10: Philosophical Inquiries Into Existentialism and Language

Question 1

Nietzsche grounds religion in the human needs of the insecure person.

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

Answer 1

Nietzche

Question 2

------------ is the author of The Rebel.

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

Answer 2

Camus

Question 3

---------- is the author of The Myth of Sisyphus.

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

Answer 3

Camus

Question 4

-------------- existentialist who won Nobel Prize for literature.

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

Question 5

----------- is the author of Second Sex.

A)Nietzche
B)Simone de Beauvoir
C)Kierkegaard
D)Camus

Question 6

Kierkegaard and -----------were interested in people's concealment of the meaninglessness of life and their use of diversion to escape from boredom.

A)Nietzche
B)Simone de Beauvoir
C)Kierkegaard
D)Camus

Question 7

Sartre's existentialism drew its immediate inspiration from the work of the German philosopher, ------------.

A)Nietzche
B)Heidegger
C)Kierkegaard
D)Camus

Question 8

The ---------- welcomed Husserl's doctrine of intentionality as a refutation of the Cartesian view of consciousness .

A)Existentialist
B)rationalist
C)empiricist
D)none of these

Question 9

in his Concluding Unscientific Postscript, ------------ claims that "subjectivity is the truth,"

A)Nietzche
B)Heidegger
C)Kierkegaard
D)Camus

Question 10

For ------------------------ "the crowd is untruth."

A)Nietzche
B)Heidegger
C)Kierkegaard
D)Camus

Question 11

----------- is the author of Beyond Good and Evil.

A)Nietzche
B)Heidegger
C)Kierkegaard
D)Camus

Question 12

----------- wants to deliver the human being from the crowd and make him aware of himself as the centre of responsibilities.

A)Nietzche
B)Heidegger
C)Kierkegaard
D)Camus

Question 13

The philosophy of ---------------- emphasizes the importance of the individual.

A)Nietzche
B)Heidegger
C)Kierkegaard
D)Camus

Question 14

---------------wants to deliver the human being from the crowd and make him aware of himself as the centre of responsibilities.

A)Nietzche
B)Heidegger
C)Kierkegaard
D)Camus

Question 15

------------stage is called the Don Juan stage.

A)Aesthetic
B)ethical
C)religious
D)none of these

Question 16

-------------stage man makes a choice for a determinate moral standard

A)Aesthetic
B)ethical
C)religious
D)none of these

Question 17

------stage is characterized by essential suffering, fear and trembling, guilt and dread.

A)Aesthetic
B)ethical
C)religious
D)none of these

Question 18

Kierkegaard gives priority to the existential truth or truth as subjectivity.

A)Nietzche
B)Heidegger
C)Kierkegaard
D)Camus

Question 19

------------ is the author of Mystery of Being.

A)Nietzche
B)Heidegger
C)Marcel
D)Camus

Question 20

------------- is the author of Man in the Modern age.

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

Question 21

---------- developed an existential philosophy of Technology.

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

Question 22

------------ is the author of Being and Having..

A)Nietzche
B)Heidegger
C)Marcel
D)Camus

Question 23

-------- language is precise, free of ambiguity, and clear in structure, on the model of symbolic logic.

A)ordinary
B)ideal
C)both a and b
D)none of these

Question 24

---------- language is vague, misleading, and sometimes contradictory.

A)ordinary
B)ideal
C)both a and b
D)none of these

Question 25

---------- Language philosophy is generally associated with the (later) views of Ludwig Wittgenstein,

A)ordinary
B)ideal
C)both a and b
D)none of these