Top 150+ Solved Methodology of Philosophy MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The’ essence’ in phenomenology is
a. ideal reality
b. psychological reality
c. empirical reality
d. intentional object of consciousness
Q. Phenomenology is
a. materialism
b. phenomenalism
c. descriptive study of the ‘given’ without making any metaphysical postulate
d. an ‘introspective psychology’
Q. ‘Intuition’ in phenomenology means
a. observation
b. seeing
c. sensible intuition
d. intuition of essences or intellectual observation
Q. Intentionality, the phenomenological term used by Husserl refer to
a. referring to idea
b. the state of being intentional, an objective modifying act
c. a psychological act
d. a subjective act
Q. Husserl had borrowed the concept of intentionality from
a. descartes
b. meinong
c. brentano
d. william james
Q. Kant used the word ‘noumena’ for
a. things as they appear to us
b. things as they are in themselves
c. whatever is observed to be the case
d. whatever is before the mind
Q. C.S Peirce used the word ‘phenomena’ as
a. things as they appear to us
b. things as they are in themselves
c. whatever is observed to be the case
d. whatever is before mind, even illusory perceptions, imaginations or dreams
Q. In “Back to things themselves” “things” are taken to mean
a. objects
b. consciousness
c. ideas
d. the “given”
Q. The method of phenomenological reduction demands
a. reductionism
b. denial or rejection of all beliefs
c. suspension of our natural attitude
d. skeptical outlook
Q. In phenomenology, the exclusion of subjectivity is called
a. the rule of ‘objectivism’
b. the rule of ‘subjectivism’
c. the rule of skepticism
d. the rule of science
Q. The method of phenomenology is transcendental in the sense that
a. it aims at psychological phenomena
b. it aims at disclosing the structures of consciousness
c. it aims at a-priori elements of knowledge
d. it aims at analytic –synthetic distinction
Q. The exclusion of the existence of the object in ‘Bracketing Existence’ Means
a. suspension of our belief in the existence of objects
b. eliminate existence of the object in general
c. rejecting the reality of objects
d. doubting the existence of objects as in descartes’ method of doubt
Q. The objects of phenomenological seeing or intuition are
a. monads
b. spirits
c. ideas
d. essences