Contemporary Western Philosophy Set 2
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This set of Contemporary Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Contemporary Western Philosophy Set 2
Q1 | According to Kierkegaard, truth is--------. (a) Subjectivity (b) God (c) Transcendental (d) Particular34. Who said that “existence precedes essence”?
- husserl
- plato
- descartes
- sartre
Q2 | Being and Time is the work of --------. (a) Nietzsche (b) Plato (c) Heidegger (d) Sartre36. Who said that "God is dead"?
- heidegger
- nietzsche
- sartre
- kierkegaard
Q3 | ---- philosophers give importance to the term existence?
- existentialists
- phenomenologist
- empiricists
- rationalists
Q4 | Existentialism is a philosophical -----------. (a) Idealism (b) Movement (c) Pragmatics (d) Science39 Existentialism emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and ----
- god
- religion
- objectivity
- subjectivity
Q5 | Who is regarded as the founder of modern existentialism?
- sartre
- heidegger
- kierkegaard
- nietzsche
Q6 | Who claimed the word nausea for the individual's recognition
- husserl
- sartre
- heidegger
- nietzsche
Q7 | One of the following is an atheist existentialist
- descartes
- karl jaspers
- gabriel marcel
- sartre
Q8 | Who wrote the book Thus Spake Zarathustra ?
- nietzsche
- sartre
- brentano
- aristotle
Q9 | Being and Time is the work of -------. (a) Sartre (b) Husserl (c) Heidegger (d) Descartes46 According to Heidegger, Dasein means --------
- god
- becoming
- being- that
- being- there
Q10 | In Heidegger the fundamental ontology means the study of -----
- being
- non -being
- becoming
- logic
Q11 | Being and Nothingness is the work of --------
- husserl
- sartre
- brentano
- heidegger
Q12 | “Man is condemned to be free”, is the statement of ----
- nietzsche
- husserl
- sartre
- heidegger
Q13 | Sartre's philosophy is explicitly ------and pessimistic
- religious
- catholic
- theistic
- atheistic
Q14 | Heidegger is an ------------- philosopher.
- agnostic
- ancient
- analytic
- existential
Q15 | Sartre tried to reconcile existentialist concepts with a ----------- analysis of societyand history.
- samos
- marxist
- religious
- all are false
Q16 | Nietzsche is an ------- existentialist philosopher.
- atheistic
- atomists
- theistic
- phenomenological
Q17 | A number of existentialist philosophers used --------- to convey their thought.
- Ethics
- Hermeneutics
- literary forms
- god
Q18 | Existentialism is --------- century philosophical movement.
- 18th
- 20th
- 21st
- 5th
Q19 | All existentialists have followed --------in stressing the importanceof individual action in deciding questions of both morality and truth
- Husserl
- Nietzsche
- Brentano
- Kierkegaard
Q20 | Existentialists have argued that no objective and ------ principles can be found formoral decisions.
- Rational
- innate
- axiomatic
- subjective
Q21 | ------ who claimed to have worked out a total rational understanding ofhumanity and history.
- Hegel
- Nietzsche
- Husserl
- Kierkegaard
Q22 | All the existentialist thinkers suggest major themes and stress onconcrete ----- existence.
- ontological
- metaphysical
- individual
- theological
Q23 | Logical positivism is a philosophy developed by the Vienna Circle during the ------
- 1950s
- 1980s
- 1920s
- 1960s
Q24 | The most famous doctrine of logical positivism is its --------- principle
- Verifiability
- metaphysical
- Ethical
- all are false
Q25 | A statement which cannot be verified is held to be ……………………………..
- True
- valid
- meaningless
- idealist