McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Master of Arts in Philosophy (MA Philosophy) .
| 1. |
The method of phenomenological inquiry is |
| A. | dialectical |
| B. | intuitive |
| C. | transcendental |
| D. | technique of bracketing |
| Answer» D. technique of bracketing | |
| 2. |
The founder of Modern Phenomenology was |
| A. | brentano |
| B. | heidegger |
| C. | husserl |
| D. | peirce |
| Answer» C. husserl | |
| 3. |
Which one of the following pairs is not theoretically harmonious? |
| A. | moore and russell |
| B. | pierce and james |
| C. | schlick and carnap |
| D. | heidegger and husserl |
| Answer» D. heidegger and husserl | |
| 4. |
The essential feature of the phenomenological method |
| A. | intentionality |
| B. | doubting the world |
| C. | technique of bracketing |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» C. technique of bracketing | |
| 5. |
Husserl authored: |
| A. | tractatus logico philosophicus |
| B. | logical investigations |
| C. | on certainty |
| D. | zettle |
| Answer» B. logical investigations | |
| 6. |
Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? |
| A. | leibnitz – pragmatic theory of truth |
| B. | descartes – correspondence theory of truth |
| C. | husserl – the self-evidence theory of truth |
| D. | william james – coherence theory of truth |
| Answer» C. husserl – the self-evidence theory of truth | |
| 7. |
The problem of intentionality is that of understanding the relation between |
| A. | a mental state and corresponding physical state |
| B. | different mental states |
| C. | mental state and the thing it is about |
| D. | different bodily states |
| Answer» C. mental state and the thing it is about | |
| 8. |
The objects of phenomenological inquiry are |
| A. | external objects |
| B. | intentional objects |
| C. | extensional objects |
| D. | ideal objects |
| Answer» B. intentional objects | |
| 9. |
Husserlian expression ‘Epoche’ means |
| A. | suspension of reality |
| B. | suspension of world |
| C. | suspension of judgement |
| D. | suspension of experience |
| Answer» B. suspension of world | |
| 10. |
The theory which restricts our knowledge to phenomenal appearances of an inaccessible reality is |
| A. | phenomenology |
| B. | subjective idealism |
| C. | phenomenalism |
| D. | absolute idealism |
| Answer» D. absolute idealism | |
| 11. |
According to Kant _________ the proper objects of faith are |
| A. | phenomena |
| B. | noumena |
| C. | both phenomena and noumena |
| D. | neither phenomena nor noumena |
| Answer» B. noumena | |
| 12. |
Which one of the following is not the work of Edmund Husserl? |
| A. | cartesian meditations: an introduction to phenomenology |
| B. | logical investigations, |
| C. | the transcendence of the ego |
| D. | ideas: general introduction to pure phenomenology |
| Answer» C. the transcendence of the ego | |
| 13. |
Who is marked as the ‘First Existentialist Philosopher’ with Soren Kierkegaard? |
| A. | friedrich nietzsche |
| B. | schleiermacher |
| C. | jean-paul sartre |
| D. | zean paul sartre |
| Answer» A. friedrich nietzsche | |
| 14. |
Husserl’s “phenomenological” reduction is concerned with: |
| A. | reduction of material objects to sense-data |
| B. | reduction of noumeno to phenomena |
| C. | isolating the content of experience from any reference to the existence |
| D. | reducing the ending self to discrete mental states |
| Answer» C. isolating the content of experience from any reference to the existence | |
| 15. |
Which of the following is not included in analytical philosophy? |
| A. | logical atomism |
| B. | logical positivism |
| C. | linguistic analysis |
| D. | phenomenology |
| Answer» D. phenomenology | |
| 16. |
Select the existentialist among the following: |
| A. | husserl |
| B. | heidegger |
| C. | a.j. ayer |
| D. | kierkegaard |
| Answer» D. kierkegaard | |
| 17. |
Jean-Paul Sartre authored: |
| A. | an inquiry into meaning and truth |
| B. | being and nothingness, |
| C. | human knowledge: its scope and limits. |
| D. | discourse on method |
| Answer» B. being and nothingness, | |
| 18. |
internal mental states thought to exist inside one’s own subjective consciousness |
| A. | bracketing |
| B. | projection |
| C. | hermeneutics |
| D. | subjectivity |
| Answer» D. subjectivity | |
| 19. |
the ego which remains as an irreducible residue after having been subject to phenomenological reduction |
| A. | transcendental ego |
| B. | presence to hand |
| C. | resoluteness |
| D. | bracketing |
| Answer» A. transcendental ego | |
| 20. |
any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience) |
| A. | noema |
| B. | husserl |
| C. | eidetic reduction |
| D. | noesis |
| Answer» A. noema | |
| 21. |
the various ways we relate to and feel about others |
| A. | structure |
| B. | bracketing |
| C. | solicitude |
| D. | projection |
| Answer» A. structure | |
| 22. |
how we find ourselves in terms of mood and orientation. |
| A. | befindlichkeit |
| B. | intentionality |
| C. | falling/fallenness |
| D. | transcendental ego |
| Answer» A. befindlichkeit | |
| 23. |
distinctive type of experience |
| A. | phenomena |
| B. | phenomenon |
| C. | unreal objects |
| D. | projection |
| Answer» B. phenomenon | |
| 24. |
Any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience) |
| A. | noema |
| B. | eidetic reduction |
| C. | dasein |
| D. | noesis |
| Answer» D. noesis | |
| 25. |
The object or content toward which consciousness is directed (the object pole of experience) |
| A. | husserl |
| B. | hermeneutics |
| C. | natural attitude |
| D. | noema |
| Answer» D. noema | |
| 26. |
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» B. phenomenological reduction | |
| 27. |
any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience) |
| A. | dasein |
| B. | noema |
| C. | noesis |
| D. | eidetic reduction |
| Answer» C. noesis | |
| 28. |
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» B. presence to hand | |
| 29. |
plural form of Phenomenon that encompasses multiple types of experiences; |
| A. | projection |
| B. | phenomenon |
| C. | husserl |
| D. | phenomena |
| Answer» D. phenomena | |
| 30. |
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. | ready to hand |
| B. | presence to hand |
| C. | transcendental ego (husserl) |
| D. | natural attitude |
| Answer» B. presence to hand | |
| 31. |
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» C. kierkegaard | |
| 32. |
what are the basic components of all human experience; |
| A. | hermeneutics |
| B. | authentic |
| C. | transcendental enquiry |
| D. | existential phenomenology |
| Answer» D. existential phenomenology | |
| 33. |
physical objects or persons |
| A. | reflective |
| B. | hermeneutics |
| C. | phenomenon |
| D. | real objects |
| Answer» D. real objects | |
| 34. |
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» C. intentionality | |
| 35. |
any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience) |
| A. | noesis |
| B. | husserl |
| C. | dasein |
| D. | hermeneutics |
| Answer» A. noesis | |
| 36. |
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» B. eidetic reduction | |
| 37. |
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» B. interpretive phenomenology/phenomenological hermeneutics | |
| 38. |
the 'what' of a particular phenomenon |
| A. | structure |
| B. | hermeneutics |
| C. | solicitude |
| D. | bracketing |
| Answer» A. structure | |
| 39. |
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» B. transcendental enquiry (husserl) | |
| 40. |
Who is widely known as the first existentialist, despite never having used the word existentialism? |
| A. | husserl |
| B. | heidegger |
| C. | sartre |
| D. | søren kierkegaard |
| Answer» B. heidegger | |
| 41. |
Which branch of philosophy is primarily concerned with the question of being? |
| A. | existentialism |
| B. | rationalism |
| C. | idealism |
| D. | platonism |
| Answer» A. existentialism | |
| 42. |
According to Sartre, the starting point of existentialism is |
| A. | objectivity. |
| B. | subjectivity. |
| C. | recognition of death. |
| D. | denial of other minds. |
| Answer» B. subjectivity. | |
| 43. |
By despair, Sartre means we shall confine ourselves only with what depends upon our |
| A. | will. |
| B. | reason. |
| C. | emotions. |
| D. | appetite. |
| Answer» A. will. | |
| 44. |
What all existentialists have in common, according to Sartre, is the view that: |
| A. | god does not exist, and so everything is permitted. |
| B. | all humans share a common nature. |
| C. | existence precedes essence. |
| D. | essence precedes existence. |
| Answer» C. existence precedes essence. | |
| 45. |
Sartre claims that if existentialism is correct, then |
| A. | determinism is true. |
| B. | human beings by nature live for pleasure. |
| C. | man is responsible for what he is. |
| D. | man is not responsible for what he is. |
| Answer» C. man is responsible for what he is. | |
| 46. |
In Sartre's view, when one chooses how to live one is choosing |
| A. | only for oneself. |
| B. | for all of one\s family. |
| C. | for all of one\s friends. |
| D. | for all people. |
| Answer» D. for all people. | |
| 47. |
By anguish, Sartre means |
| A. | grief. |
| B. | a feeling of total and deep responsibility. |
| C. | a feeling of having no control over one\s fate. |
| D. | a sense of uncertainty about whether one\s action is objectively right. |
| Answer» B. a feeling of total and deep responsibility. | |
| 48. |
Sartre claims that when he speaks of forlornness, he means that |
| A. | god does not exist and we must face all the consequences of this. |
| B. | we can never truly know another human being. |
| C. | we are not responsible for our passions. |
| D. | all of the above. |
| Answer» A. god does not exist and we must face all the consequences of this. | |
| 49. |
According to Sartre, we are condemned because |
| A. | we did not create ourselves. |
| B. | we all will die. |
| C. | we all have sinned. |
| D. | we are born evil. |
| Answer» A. we did not create ourselves. | |
| 50. |
According to Sartre, the existentialist finds the fact that God does not exist |
| A. | liberating. |
| B. | clarifying. |
| C. | distressing. |
| D. | unimportant. |
| Answer» C. distressing. | |
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