3. Which one of the following pairs is not theoretically harmonious?
Correct : D. heidegger and husserl
4. The essential feature of the phenomenological method
Correct : C. technique of bracketing
5. Husserl authored:
Correct : B. logical investigations
6. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
Correct : C. husserl – the self-evidence theory of truth
7. The problem of intentionality is that of understanding the relation between
Correct : C. mental state and the thing it is about
8. The objects of phenomenological inquiry are
Correct : B. intentional objects
9. Husserlian expression ‘Epoche’ means
Correct : B. suspension of world
10. The theory which restricts our knowledge to phenomenal appearances
of an inaccessible reality is
Correct : D. absolute idealism
11. According to Kant _________ the proper objects of faith are
Correct : B. noumena
12. Which one of the following is not the work of Edmund Husserl?
Correct : C. the transcendence of the ego
13. Who is marked as the ‘First Existentialist Philosopher’ with Soren Kierkegaard?
Correct : A. friedrich nietzsche
14. Husserl’s “phenomenological” reduction is concerned with:
Correct : C. isolating the content of experience from any reference to the existence
15. Which of the following is not included in analytical philosophy?
Correct : D. phenomenology
16. Select the existentialist among the following:
Correct : D. kierkegaard
17. Jean-Paul Sartre authored:
Correct : B. being and nothingness,
18. internal mental states thought to exist inside one’s own subjective consciousness
Correct : D. subjectivity
19. the ego which remains as an irreducible residue after having been subject to phenomenological
reduction
Correct : A. transcendental ego
20. any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience)
Correct : A. noema
21. the various ways we relate to and feel about others
Correct : A. structure
22. how we find ourselves in terms of mood and orientation.
Correct : A. befindlichkeit
23. distinctive type of experience
Correct : B. phenomenon
24. Any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience)
Correct : D. noesis
25. The object or content toward which consciousness is directed (the object pole of experience)
Correct : D. noema
26. The goal of this reflective method is to see the experience in a fresh way by setting aside 'common
sense,' including bracketing concern with whether what is given in experience is real or not.
Correct : B. phenomenological reduction
27. any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience)
Correct : C. noesis
28. More abstract stance to things, when we step back and look at them in a more detached way and
conceptualize them as existing independently of us
Correct : B. presence to hand
29. plural form of Phenomenon that encompasses multiple types of experiences;
Correct : D. phenomena
30. More abstract stance to things, when we step back and look at them in a more detached way and
conceptualize them as existing independently of us
Correct : B. presence to hand
31. first existential/phenomenological author who studied hopelessness form a Christian perspective,
and found hope in faith.
Correct : C. kierkegaard
32. what are the basic components of all human experience;
Correct : D. existential phenomenology
33. physical objects or persons
Correct : D. real objects
34. conscious is always consciousness of something, whether physical objects or persons or ideas or
imagined objects
Correct : C. intentionality
35. any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience)
Correct : A. noesis
36. the act which leads from particulars to the uncovering of the universal/general essence of a
phenomenon
Correct : B. eidetic reduction
37. being is partly hidden and in darkness and therefore more than phenomenological description is
called for. Interpretive process of existence to allow Being to uncover itself
Correct : B. interpretive phenomenology/phenomenological hermeneutics
38. the 'what' of a particular phenomenon
Correct : A. structure
39. The search for what which makes experience possible rather than the nature of particular
experiences
Correct : B. transcendental enquiry (husserl)
40. Who is widely known as the first existentialist, despite never having used the word
existentialism?
Correct : B. heidegger
41. Which branch of philosophy is primarily concerned with the question of being?
Correct : A. existentialism
42. According to Sartre, the starting point of existentialism is
Correct : B. subjectivity.
43. By despair, Sartre means we shall confine ourselves only with what depends upon our
Correct : A. will.
44. What all existentialists have in common, according to Sartre, is the view that:
Correct : C. existence precedes essence.
45. Sartre claims that if existentialism is correct, then
Correct : C. man is responsible for what he is.
46. In Sartre's view, when one chooses how to live one is choosing
Correct : D. for all people.
47. By anguish, Sartre means
Correct : B. a feeling of total and deep responsibility.
48. Sartre claims that when he speaks of forlornness, he means that
Correct : A. god does not exist and we must face all the consequences of this.
49. According to Sartre, we are condemned because
Correct : A. we did not create ourselves.
50. According to Sartre, the existentialist finds the fact that God does not exist
Correct : C. distressing.
51. Sartre claims that if existence precedes essence, then
Correct : D. all of the above.
52. In Sartre's view, humans are responsible for
Correct : C. both a and b.
53. Sartre claims that the value of one's affection is determined by
Correct : A. the way one acts.
54. Sartre claims that a person is nothing more than
Correct : B. a series of undertakings.
55. Sartre claims that according to existentialism, there is no reality except in
Correct : B. action.
56. Existentialism Is a Humanism is a work by
Correct : B. jean-paul sartre
57. Which Existentialist is often called the "Grandfather of Existentialism" and the "Socrates of
Copenhagen"?
Correct : D. soren kierkegaard
58. Which Existentialist preferred to think of his philosophy as "Absurdism" and himself as an
"Absurdist"?
Correct : A. soren kierkegaard
59. Which of the following concepts was invented by Kierkegaard?
Correct : B. repetition
60. which of the following movements has Kierkegaard least influenced?
Correct : B. analytic philosophy
61. Existential philosophy has such a widespread and rapid impact on society because
Correct : C. it eliminated the middle man
62. In Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard discusses
Correct : A. the dialectic between allegiance to god and allegiance to god\s law in his heart
63. Which of the following is not true about Sartre's conception of consciousness?
Correct : A. consciousness can be an object of the phenomenological description.
64. According to Sartre, freedom
Correct : A. is the free will possessed by every human individual.
65. Which of the following illustrates Sartre's notion of "bad faith"?
Correct : D. all of the above.
66. Sartre claimed that "hell is other people" because
Correct : C. he believed others are a part of our society.
67. Who believed that man makes himself.
Correct : B. sartre
68. Which philosopher wrote this famous book Either/Or
Correct : D. kierkegaard
69. Man is condemned to be free
Correct : B. sartre
70. Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward
Correct : D. kierkegaard
71. Brentano’s understanding of philosophy as
Correct : A. radical science
72. Philosophy as Rigorous Science book by
Correct : D. husserl
73. The major theme repeated in phenomenology is
Correct : B. back to the things themselves
74. first stage of Husserl’s philosophy dealing
Correct : A. psychologism
75. Second stage of Husserl’s philosophy dealing
Correct : C. descriptive phenomenology
76. Third stage of Husserl’s philosophy dealing
Correct : D. transcendental phenomenology
77. Transcendental subjectivity is the notion of
Correct : D. husserl
78. The Devil and the Good Lord wrote by
Correct : B. sartre
79. Husserl’s new conception of intentional content
Correct : A. noema
80. Fear and Trembling is the work of
Correct : A. kierkegaard
81. Critique of Dialectical Reason is the work of
Correct : B. sartre
82. Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology is the work of
Correct : D. husserl
83. Philosophical Fragments is the work of
Correct : A. kierkegaard
84. phenomonolgy means the study of
Correct : B. appearance
85. According to phenomenology the nature of truth is
Correct : D. subjective
86. who employ the term phenomenology for the first time
Correct : B. lambert
87. Give the name of the philosopher who used the notion intentionality for the first time
Correct : C. brentano
88. Husserl employs the notion of natural attitude in order to
Correct : C. to criticize the view of modern science
89. bracketing is a process of
Correct : B. reinstate natural attitude
90. Being for-itself is the mode of
Correct : A. existence of consciousness,
91. “Man is condemned to be free.” Are the words of