Contemporary Western Philosophy Set 2

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy)

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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”?
Q2 | Being and Time is the work of --------. (a) Nietzsche (b) Plato (c) Heidegger (d) Sartre36. Who said that "God is dead"?
Q3 | ---- philosophers give importance to the term existence?
Q4 | Existentialism is a philosophical -----------. (a) Idealism (b) Movement (c) Pragmatics (d) Science39 Existentialism emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and ----
Q5 | Who is regarded as the founder of modern existentialism?
Q6 | Who claimed the word nausea for the individual's recognition
Q7 | One of the following is an atheist existentialist
Q8 | Who wrote the book Thus Spake Zarathustra ?
Q9 | Being and Time is the work of -------. (a) Sartre (b) Husserl (c) Heidegger (d) Descartes46 According to Heidegger, Dasein means --------
Q10 | In Heidegger the fundamental ontology means the study of -----
Q11 | Being and Nothingness is the work of --------
Q12 | “Man is condemned to be free”, is the statement of ----
Q13 | Sartre's philosophy is explicitly ------and pessimistic
Q14 | Heidegger is an ------------- philosopher.
Q15 | Sartre tried to reconcile existentialist concepts with a ----------- analysis of societyand history.
Q16 | Nietzsche is an ------- existentialist philosopher.
Q17 | A number of existentialist philosophers used --------- to convey their thought.
Q18 | Existentialism is --------- century philosophical movement.
Q19 | All existentialists have followed --------in stressing the importanceof individual action in deciding questions of both morality and truth
Q20 | Existentialists have argued that no objective and ------ principles can be found formoral decisions.
Q21 | ------ who claimed to have worked out a total rational understanding ofhumanity and history.
Q22 | All the existentialist thinkers suggest major themes and stress onconcrete ----- existence.
Q23 | Logical positivism is a philosophy developed by the Vienna Circle during the ------
Q24 | The most famous doctrine of logical positivism is its --------- principle
Q25 | A statement which cannot be verified is held to be ……………………………..
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