McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .
| 1. |
The founder of phenomenological movement is --------------- |
| A. | husserl |
| B. | hegel |
| C. | kant |
| D. | brentano |
| Answer» A. husserl | |
| 2. |
Brentano belongs to ------ movement |
| A. | feminist |
| B. | materialist |
| C. | existentialist |
| D. | phenomenologist |
| Answer» D. phenomenologist | |
| 3. |
Ideas: A General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology is a work o |
| A. | brentano |
| B. | husserl |
| C. | sartre |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» B. husserl | |
| 4. |
The task of phenomenology is to study --- |
| A. | moral acts |
| B. | science |
| C. | emotions |
| D. | consciousness |
| Answer» D. consciousness | |
| 5. |
The phenomenological reduction is by ------- |
| A. | husserl |
| B. | brentano |
| C. | ponty |
| D. | sartre |
| Answer» A. husserl | |
| 6. |
Transcendental phenomenology, according to Husserl, was the study of ------- |
| A. | spirit |
| B. | logic |
| C. | transcendental consciousness |
| D. | science |
| Answer» C. transcendental consciousness | |
| 7. |
--------- subscribes to slogan “To the things themselves.” |
| A. | husserl |
| B. | sartre |
| C. | heidegger |
| D. | empiricist |
| Answer» A. husserl | |
| 8. |
Which philosophy is emphasizing the study of consciousness by the method of reduction |
| A. | existentialism |
| B. | phenomenology |
| C. | psychology |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. phenomenology | |
| 9. |
Who wrote the work Logical Investigations? |
| A. | heidegger |
| B. | sartre |
| C. | merleau-ponty |
| D. | husserl |
| Answer» D. husserl | |
| 10. |
Who was the first to employ the term ‘phenomenology? |
| A. | leibnitz |
| B. | leucippus |
| C. | lambert |
| D. | bertano |
| Answer» C. lambert | |
| 11. |
Descriptive psychology and had its origins in the project of ------- |
| A. | brentano. |
| B. | husserl |
| C. | heidegger |
| D. | meinong |
| Answer» A. brentano. | |
| 12. |
Whose conviction that philosophy is a rigorous science? |
| A. | kant |
| B. | brentano |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | husserl |
| Answer» D. husserl | |
| 13. |
phenomenology emphasizes the concept of ------ |
| A. | self-evidence |
| B. | anticipation |
| C. | existence |
| D. | science |
| Answer» A. self-evidence | |
| 14. |
Brentano contrasts empirical psychology with --------- |
| A. | gestalt psychology |
| B. | clinical psychology |
| C. | genetic psychology |
| D. | all are false |
| Answer» C. genetic psychology | |
| 15. |
------- is a concept in phenomenology borrowed from Brentano |
| A. | intentionality |
| B. | de anima, |
| C. | cognition |
| D. | consciousness |
| Answer» A. intentionality | |
| 16. |
Who laid great stress on phenomenology’s principle of presuppositionlessness in Phenomenology? |
| A. | heidegger |
| B. | meinong |
| C. | brentano |
| D. | husserl |
| Answer» D. husserl | |
| 17. |
Which of the following is true to Husserl? |
| A. | the suspension of the natural attitude |
| B. | the phenomenological epoché, |
| C. | eidetic and transcendental reductions |
| D. | all are true |
| Answer» D. all are true | |
| 18. |
-------- meant that all scientific, philosophical, cultural, and everyday assumptions had to be put aside. |
| A. | positivism |
| B. | bracketing |
| C. | empiricism |
| D. | descriptivism |
| Answer» B. bracketing | |
| 19. |
Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint is the work of -------- |
| A. | brentano |
| B. | husserl |
| C. | heidegger |
| D. | sartre |
| Answer» A. brentano | |
| 20. |
Who contrasts empirical psychology with genetic psychology? |
| A. | carnap |
| B. | meinong |
| C. | brentano |
| D. | husserl |
| Answer» C. brentano | |
| 21. |
Cartesian Meditations is the famous work of --------- |
| A. | carnap |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | brentano |
| D. | husserl |
| Answer» D. husserl | |
| 22. |
--------------is the doctrine that every mental act is related to some object. |
| A. | objectivity |
| B. | intentionality |
| C. | reduction |
| D. | bracketing |
| Answer» B. intentionality | |
| 23. |
Husserl as a transcendental philosopher deferrers from-------. (a) Descartes (b) Socrates (c) Aristotle (d) Kant 29. Who distinguished between phenomena and noumena ? |
| A. | kant |
| B. | brentano |
| C. | sartre |
| D. | berkeley |
| Answer» D. berkeley | |
| 24. |
Whose transcendental philosophy is known as transcendental phenomenology? |
| A. | brentano |
| B. | husserl |
| C. | sartre |
| D. | heidegger |
| Answer» B. husserl | |
| 25. |
----- reduction brackets the question of existence and attempts to focus on the essence. |
| A. | eidetic |
| B. | transcendental |
| C. | phenomenological |
| D. | all are true |
| Answer» A. eidetic | |
| 26. |
According to Kierkegaard, truth is--------. (a) Subjectivity (b) God (c) Transcendental (d) Particular 34. Who said that “existence precedes essence”? |
| A. | husserl |
| B. | plato |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | sartre |
| Answer» A. husserl | |
| 27. |
Being and Time is the work of --------. (a) Nietzsche (b) Plato (c) Heidegger (d) Sartre 36. Who said that "God is dead"? |
| A. | heidegger |
| B. | nietzsche |
| C. | sartre |
| D. | kierkegaard |
| Answer» C. sartre | |
| 28. |
---- philosophers give importance to the term existence? |
| A. | existentialists |
| B. | phenomenologist |
| C. | empiricists |
| D. | rationalists |
| Answer» A. existentialists | |
| 29. |
Existentialism is a philosophical -----------. (a) Idealism (b) Movement (c) Pragmatics (d) Science 39 Existentialism emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and ---- |
| A. | god |
| B. | religion |
| C. | objectivity |
| D. | subjectivity |
| Answer» B. religion | |
| 30. |
Who is regarded as the founder of modern existentialism? |
| A. | sartre |
| B. | heidegger |
| C. | kierkegaard |
| D. | nietzsche |
| Answer» C. kierkegaard | |
| 31. |
Who claimed the word nausea for the individual's recognition |
| A. | husserl |
| B. | sartre |
| C. | heidegger |
| D. | nietzsche |
| Answer» B. sartre | |
| 32. |
One of the following is an atheist existentialist |
| A. | descartes |
| B. | karl jaspers |
| C. | gabriel marcel |
| D. | sartre |
| Answer» D. sartre | |
| 33. |
Who wrote the book Thus Spake Zarathustra ? |
| A. | nietzsche |
| B. | sartre |
| C. | brentano |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. nietzsche | |
| 34. |
Being and Time is the work of -------. (a) Sartre (b) Husserl (c) Heidegger (d) Descartes 46 According to Heidegger, Dasein means -------- |
| A. | god |
| B. | becoming |
| C. | being- that |
| D. | being- there |
| Answer» C. being- that | |
| 35. |
In Heidegger the fundamental ontology means the study of ----- |
| A. | being |
| B. | non -being |
| C. | becoming |
| D. | logic |
| Answer» A. being | |
| 36. |
Being and Nothingness is the work of -------- |
| A. | husserl |
| B. | sartre |
| C. | brentano |
| D. | heidegger |
| Answer» B. sartre | |
| 37. |
“Man is condemned to be free”, is the statement of ---- |
| A. | nietzsche |
| B. | husserl |
| C. | sartre |
| D. | heidegger |
| Answer» C. sartre | |
| 38. |
Sartre's philosophy is explicitly ------and pessimistic |
| A. | religious |
| B. | catholic |
| C. | theistic |
| D. | atheistic |
| Answer» D. atheistic | |
| 39. |
Heidegger is an ------------- philosopher. |
| A. | agnostic |
| B. | ancient |
| C. | analytic |
| D. | existential |
| Answer» A. agnostic | |
| 40. |
Sartre tried to reconcile existentialist concepts with a ----------- analysis of society and history. |
| A. | samos |
| B. | marxist |
| C. | religious |
| D. | all are false |
| Answer» B. marxist | |
| 41. |
Nietzsche is an ------- existentialist philosopher. |
| A. | atheistic |
| B. | atomists |
| C. | theistic |
| D. | phenomenological |
| Answer» A. atheistic | |
| 42. |
A number of existentialist philosophers used --------- to convey their thought. |
| A. | Ethics |
| B. | Hermeneutics |
| C. | literary forms |
| D. | god |
| Answer» C. literary forms | |
| 43. |
Existentialism is --------- century philosophical movement. |
| A. | 18th |
| B. | 20th |
| C. | 21st |
| D. | 5th |
| Answer» B. 20th | |
| 44. |
All existentialists have followed --------in stressing the importance of individual action in deciding questions of both morality and truth |
| A. | Husserl |
| B. | Nietzsche |
| C. | Brentano |
| D. | Kierkegaard |
| Answer» D. Kierkegaard | |
| 45. |
Existentialists have argued that no objective and ------ principles can be found for moral decisions. |
| A. | Rational |
| B. | innate |
| C. | axiomatic |
| D. | subjective |
| Answer» A. Rational | |
| 46. |
------ who claimed to have worked out a total rational understanding of humanity and history. |
| A. | Hegel |
| B. | Nietzsche |
| C. | Husserl |
| D. | Kierkegaard |
| Answer» A. Hegel | |
| 47. |
All the existentialist thinkers suggest major themes and stress on concrete ----- existence. |
| A. | ontological |
| B. | metaphysical |
| C. | individual |
| D. | theological |
| Answer» C. individual | |
| 48. |
Logical positivism is a philosophy developed by the Vienna Circle during the ------ |
| A. | 1950s |
| B. | 1980s |
| C. | 1920s |
| D. | 1960s |
| Answer» C. 1920s | |
| 49. |
The most famous doctrine of logical positivism is its --------- principle |
| A. | Verifiability |
| B. | metaphysical |
| C. | Ethical |
| D. | all are false |
| Answer» A. Verifiability | |
| 50. |
A statement which cannot be verified is held to be …………………………….. |
| A. | True |
| B. | valid |
| C. | meaningless |
| D. | idealist |
| Answer» C. meaningless | |
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