Quiznetik

Phenomenology and Existentialism | Set 1

1. The method of phenomenological inquiry is

Correct : D. technique of bracketing

2. The founder of Modern Phenomenology was

Correct : C. husserl

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

Correct : B. sartre

92. Author of Philosophy of Arithmetic

Correct : D. husserl