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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