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This set of Phenomenology and Existentialism Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Phenomenology And Existentialism Set 2

Q1 | The goal of this reflective method is to see the experience in a fresh way by setting aside 'commonsense,' including bracketing concern with whether what is given in experience is real or not.
  • transcendental ego
  • phenomenological reduction
  • hermeneutics
  • phenomenology
Q2 | any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience)
  • dasein
  • noema
  • noesis
  • eidetic reduction
Q3 | More abstract stance to things, when we step back and look at them in a more detached way andconceptualize them as existing independently of us
  • authentic (heidegger)
  • presence to hand
  • resoluteness
  • dasein (heidegger)
Q4 | plural form of Phenomenon that encompasses multiple types of experiences;
  • projection
  • phenomenon
  • husserl
  • phenomena
Q5 | More abstract stance to things, when we step back and look at them in a more detached way andconceptualize them as existing independently of us
  • ready to hand
  • presence to hand
  • transcendental ego (husserl)
  • natural attitude
Q6 | first existential/phenomenological author who studied hopelessness form a Christian perspective,and found hope in faith.
  • reflective
  • natural attitude
  • kierkegaard
  • life world (aka lebens welt) (husserl)
Q7 | what are the basic components of all human experience;
  • hermeneutics
  • authentic
  • transcendental enquiry
  • existential phenomenology
Q8 | physical objects or persons
  • reflective
  • hermeneutics
  • phenomenon
  • real objects
Q9 | conscious is always consciousness of something, whether physical objects or persons or ideas orimagined objects
  • authentic
  • existential phenomenology
  • intentionality
  • transcendental enquiry
Q10 | any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience)
  • noesis
  • husserl
  • dasein
  • hermeneutics
Q11 | the act which leads from particulars to the uncovering of the universal/general essence of aphenomenon
  • noesis
  • eidetic reduction
  • transcendental ego
  • resoluteness
Q12 | being is partly hidden and in darkness and therefore more than phenomenological description iscalled for. Interpretive process of existence to allow Being to uncover itself
  • anxiety (heidegger)
  • interpretive phenomenology/phenomenological hermeneutics
  • phenomenological reduction
  • intentionality (husserl)
Q13 | the 'what' of a particular phenomenon
  • structure
  • hermeneutics
  • solicitude
  • bracketing
Q14 | The search for what which makes experience possible rather than the nature of particularexperiences
  • hermeneutics
  • transcendental enquiry (husserl)
  • transcendental ego (husserl)
  • existential phenomenology
Q15 | Who is widely known as the first existentialist, despite never having used the wordexistentialism?
  • husserl
  • heidegger
  • sartre
  • søren kierkegaard
Q16 | Which branch of philosophy is primarily concerned with the question of being?
  • existentialism
  • rationalism
  • idealism
  • platonism
Q17 | According to Sartre, the starting point of existentialism is
  • objectivity.
  • subjectivity.
  • recognition of death.
  • denial of other minds.
Q18 | By despair, Sartre means we shall confine ourselves only with what depends upon our
  • will.
  • reason.
  • emotions.
  • appetite.
Q19 | What all existentialists have in common, according to Sartre, is the view that:
  • god does not exist, and so everything is permitted.
  • all humans share a common nature.
  • existence precedes essence.
  • essence precedes existence.
Q20 | Sartre claims that if existentialism is correct, then
  • determinism is true.
  • human beings by nature live for pleasure.
  • man is responsible for what he is.
  • man is not responsible for what he is.
Q21 | In Sartre's view, when one chooses how to live one is choosing
  • only for oneself.
  • for all of one\s family.
  • for all of one\s friends.
  • for all people.
Q22 | By anguish, Sartre means
  • grief.
  • a feeling of total and deep responsibility.
  • a feeling of having no control over one\s fate.
  • a sense of uncertainty about whether one\s action is objectively right.
Q23 | Sartre claims that when he speaks of forlornness, he means that
  • god does not exist and we must face all the consequences of this.
  • we can never truly know another human being.
  • we are not responsible for our passions.
  • all of the above.
Q24 | According to Sartre, we are condemned because
  • we did not create ourselves.
  • we all will die.
  • we all have sinned.
  • we are born evil.
Q25 | According to Sartre, the existentialist finds the fact that God does not exist
  • liberating.
  • clarifying.
  • distressing.
  • unimportant.