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This section includes 10 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Master of Arts in Philosophy (MA Philosophy) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Which Existentialist is often called the "Grandfather of Existentialism" and the "Socrates of Copenhagen"? |
| A. | martin heidegger |
| B. | jean-paul sartre |
| C. | albert camus |
| D. | soren kierkegaard |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
the act which leads from particulars to the uncovering of the universal/general essence of a phenomenon |
| A. | noesis |
| B. | eidetic reduction |
| C. | transcendental ego |
| D. | resoluteness |
| Answer» C. transcendental ego | |
| 3. |
Which Existentialist preferred to think of his philosophy as "Absurdism" and himself as an "Absurdist"? |
| A. | soren kierkegaard |
| B. | friedrich nietzsche |
| C. | martin heidegger |
| D. | albert camus |
| Answer» B. friedrich nietzsche | |
| 4. |
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. |
| A. | transcendental ego |
| B. | phenomenological reduction |
| C. | hermeneutics |
| D. | phenomenology |
| Answer» C. hermeneutics | |
| 5. |
conscious is always consciousness of something, whether physical objects or persons or ideas or imagined objects |
| A. | authentic |
| B. | existential phenomenology |
| C. | intentionality |
| D. | transcendental enquiry |
| Answer» D. transcendental enquiry | |
| 6. |
Who is widely known as the first existentialist, despite never having used the word existentialism? |
| A. | husserl |
| B. | heidegger |
| C. | sartre |
| D. | s ren kierkegaard |
| Answer» C. sartre | |
| 7. |
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 |
| A. | authentic (heidegger) |
| B. | presence to hand |
| C. | resoluteness |
| D. | dasein (heidegger) |
| Answer» C. resoluteness | |
| 8. |
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 |
| A. | anxiety (heidegger) |
| B. | interpretive phenomenology/phenomenological hermeneutics |
| C. | phenomenological reduction |
| D. | intentionality (husserl) |
| Answer» C. phenomenological reduction | |
| 9. |
The search for what which makes experience possible rather than the nature of particular experiences |
| A. | hermeneutics |
| B. | transcendental enquiry (husserl) |
| C. | transcendental ego (husserl) |
| D. | existential phenomenology |
| Answer» C. transcendental ego (husserl) | |
| 10. |
first existential/phenomenological author who studied hopelessness form a Christian perspective, and found hope in faith. |
| A. | reflective |
| B. | natural attitude |
| C. | kierkegaard |
| D. | life world (aka lebens welt) (husserl) |
| Answer» D. life world (aka lebens welt) (husserl) | |