Top 150+ Solved Contemporary Western Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who laid great stress on phenomenology’s principle of presuppositionlessness inPhenomenology?
a. heidegger
b. meinong
c. brentano
d. husserl
Q. 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
Q. -------- meant that all scientific, philosophical, cultural, and everyday assumptions hadto be put aside.
a. positivism
b. bracketing
c. empiricism
d. descriptivism
Q. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint is the work of --------
a. brentano
b. husserl
c. heidegger
d. sartre
Q. Who contrasts empirical psychology with genetic psychology?
a. carnap
b. meinong
c. brentano
d. husserl
Q. Cartesian Meditations is the famous work of ---------
a. carnap
b. descartes
c. brentano
d. husserl
Q. --------------is the doctrine that every mental act is related to some object.
a. objectivity
b. intentionality
c. reduction
d. bracketing
Q. Husserl as a transcendental philosopher deferrers from-------. (a) Descartes (b) Socrates (c) Aristotle (d) Kant29. Who distinguished between phenomena and noumena ?
a. kant
b. brentano
c. sartre
d. berkeley
Q. Whose transcendental philosophy is known as transcendental phenomenology?
a. brentano
b. husserl
c. sartre
d. heidegger
Q. ----- reduction brackets the question of existence and attempts to focus on the essence.
a. eidetic
b. transcendental
c. phenomenological
d. all are true
Q. According to Kierkegaard, truth is--------. (a) Subjectivity (b) God (c) Transcendental (d) Particular34. Who said that “existence precedes essence”?
a. husserl
b. plato
c. descartes
d. sartre
Q. Being and Time is the work of --------. (a) Nietzsche (b) Plato (c) Heidegger (d) Sartre36. Who said that "God is dead"?
a. heidegger
b. nietzsche
c. sartre
d. kierkegaard
Q. ---- philosophers give importance to the term existence?
a. existentialists
b. phenomenologist
c. empiricists
d. rationalists
Q. Existentialism is a philosophical -----------. (a) Idealism (b) Movement (c) Pragmatics (d) Science39 Existentialism emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and ----
a. god
b. religion
c. objectivity
d. subjectivity
Q. Who is regarded as the founder of modern existentialism?
a. sartre
b. heidegger
c. kierkegaard
d. nietzsche