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260+ Recent Trends in Western Philosophy Solved MCQs

These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Uncategorized topics .

151.

The ------------ reduction is a suspension of judgments about the existence or nonexistence of the external world.

A. Phenomenological
B. Transcendental
C. eidetic
D. none of these
Answer» A. Phenomenological
152.

------------ reduction tries is to identify the basic components of phenomena.

A. Phenomenological
B. Transcendental
C. eidetic
D. none of these
Answer» C. eidetic
153.

Husserl called descriptive analysis ---------- phenomenology

A. Static
B. descriptive
C. genetic
D. none of these
Answer» A. Static
154.

The ------------- attitude is a turn towards the source of world’s meaning.

A. Phenomenological
B. natural
C. eidetic
D. none of these
Answer» A. Phenomenological
155.

According to ----------- language is not the original bearer of meaning.

A. Brentano
B. Husserl
C. Heidegger
D. Gadamer
Answer» B. Husserl
156.

----------- consider that he has widened the sphere of meaning to include all intentional acts.

A. Brentano
B. Husserl
C. Heidegger
D. Gadamer
Answer» B. Husserl
157.

Unlike ---------- Husserl did not differentiate between noumenal and phenomenal realm.

A. Hegel
B. Kant
C. Heidegger
D. Gadamer
Answer» B. Kant
158.

The -------- is a naïve acceptance of reality as a domain of facts independent of consciousness.

A. Phenomenological
B. natural
C. eidetic
D. none of these
Answer» B. natural
159.

The ----------- attitude is a turn towards world’s meaning .

A. Phenomenological
B. natural
C. eidetic
D. none of these
Answer» A. Phenomenological
160.

---------- discloses the world as a correlative of transcendental subjectivity.

A. Phenomenology
B. existentialism
C. hermeneutics
D. none of these
Answer» A. Phenomenology
161.

------------ are the pre given context in which we find ourselves .

A. Horizon
B. hyle
C. noema
D. noesis
Answer» A. Horizon
162.

----------- is the author of Being and Time .

A. Husserl
B. Heidegger
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» B. Heidegger
163.

The central theme of ---------'s philosophy is the question concerning the meaning of being .

A. Husserl
B. Heidegger
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» B. Heidegger
164.

----------- attempted to access being (Sein) by means of phenomenological analysis of human existence (Dasein) in respect to its temporal and historical character.

A. Heidegger
B. Bretano
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» A. Heidegger
165.

The central problem for ------------ is the problem of constitution: How is the world as phenomenon constituted in our consciousness?

A. Husserl
B. Bretano
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» A. Husserl
166.

----------- asks: “What is the mode of being of that being in which the world constitutes itself?”

A. Heidegger
B. Bretano
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» A. Heidegger
167.

Heidegger’s attempt to overcome western metaphysics is influenced by -------.

A. Husserl
B. Bretano
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» A. Husserl
168.

The being of Dasein is made visible as --------

A. Care
B. authentic
C. inauthentic
D. Solicitude
Answer» A. Care
169.

Dasein’s primordial relationship to others is one of -----------.

A. Care
B. authentic
C. inauthentic
D. Solicitude
Answer» D. Solicitude
170.

---------- is presuppositionless science of consciousness.

A. Phenomenology
B. existentialism
C. hermeneutics
D. none of these
Answer» A. Phenomenology
171.

----------- is essentially temporal.

A. Dasein
B. mind
C. body
D. none of these
Answer» A. Dasein
172.

The temporal character of ------------- is derived from the tripartite ontological structure: existence, thrownness, and fallenness .

A. Dasein
B. mind
C. body
D. none of these
Answer» A. Dasein
173.

For --------- an essence is that which holds throughout all perceptions of an object.

A. Husserl
B. Bretano
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» A. Husserl
174.

---------- is critical of the ontotheological conception of substance.

A. Heidegger
B. Bretano
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» A. Heidegger
175.

The task of --------------- is to distinguish between being and entities.

A. Ontology
B. Phenomenology
C. Hermeneutics
D. Existentialism
Answer» A. Ontology
176.

According to phenomenology is subservient to fundamental ontology .

A. Heidegger
B. Bretano
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» A. Heidegger
177.

--------- claims that existence is the only essence that consciousness has.

A. Sartre
B. Bretano
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» A. Sartre
178.

--------------- is the founder of phenomenology.

A. Sartre
B. Husserl
C. Gadamer
D. Derrida
Answer» B. Husserl
179.

According to Frege Husserl was a proponent of -------------.

A. Naturalism
B. functionalism
C. materialism
D. psychologism
Answer» D. psychologism
180.

According to ---------“A human being is absolutely free and absolutely responsible. Anguish is the result.”

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Marcel
Answer» A. Sartre
181.

According to -----------“Existence precedes essence.” 7

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Marcel
Answer» A. Sartre
182.

According to--------- man is condemned to be free.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Marcel
Answer» A. Sartre
183.

----------- essential description of consciousness is simply that consciousness is always consciousness of something, but by itself is nothing.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Marcel
Answer» A. Sartre
184.

The facticity of freedom according to ------- is the fact that human beings are not free to not be free.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Marcel
Answer» A. Sartre
185.

According to -------------bad faith is our attempt to avoid our own freedom.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Marcel
Answer» A. Sartre
186.

------------ used the example of understanding a sentence as an example of the circular course of hermeneutic understanding.

A. Dilthey
B. Gadamer
C. Husserl
D. Habermas
Answer» A. Dilthey
187.

The --------------- circle is one of the most fundamental and contentious doctrines of hermeneutical theory.

A. Existential
B. phenomenological
C. Hermeneutic
D. none of these
Answer» C. Hermeneutic
188.

--------- is the author of Being and Nothingness

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Marcel
Answer» A. Sartre
189.

___________ is a theistic existentialist.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. none of these
Answer» C. Jaspers
190.

--------- defines consciousness in terms of nothingness.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. none of these
Answer» A. Sartre
191.

------------- is an atheistic existentialist.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. none of these
Answer» A. Sartre
192.

According to ----------- subjective truth cannot be represented with the categories of abstract reason.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Kierkegaard
Answer» D. Kierkegaard
193.

------------------- is the author of Sickness unto Death.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Kierkegaard
Answer» D. Kierkegaard
194.

Existentialism s a humanism is an article by ---------.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Kierkegaard
Answer» A. Sartre
195.

------------------- is the author of Either /or

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Kierkegaard
Answer» D. Kierkegaard
196.

‘Existence precedes essence’ is a famous dictum by-------------.

A. Sartre
B. Camus
C. Jaspers
D. Kierkegaard
Answer» A. Sartre
197.

Kierkegaard was the first person to use existence in a ----------- sense .

A. Religious
B. historic
C. practical
D. absurd
Answer» A. Religious
198.

Søren Kierkegaard identified ---- possible stages that a person can move through in their lifetime.

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
Answer» B. 3
199.

The main motivation in ------------stage is pleasure.

A. Aesthetic
B. Ethical
C. Existential
D. religious
Answer» A. Aesthetic
200.

In the --------- stage we feel responsibilities toward others — both particular others and others in general.

A. Aesthetic
B. Ethical
C. Existential
D. religious
Answer» B. Ethical

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