Top 80+ Solved Phenomenology and Existentialism MCQ Questions Answer
Q. 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)
Q. what are the basic components of all human experience;
a. hermeneutics
b. authentic
c. transcendental enquiry
d. existential phenomenology
Q. conscious is always consciousness of something, whether physical objects or persons or ideas orimagined objects
a. authentic
b. existential phenomenology
c. intentionality
d. transcendental enquiry
Q. any act of the subject directed towards an intentional object (the subject pole of experience)
a. noesis
b. husserl
c. dasein
d. hermeneutics
Q. the act which leads from particulars to the uncovering of the universal/general essence of aphenomenon
a. noesis
b. eidetic reduction
c. transcendental ego
d. resoluteness
Q. being is partly hidden and in darkness and therefore more than phenomenological description iscalled 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)
Q. The search for what which makes experience possible rather than the nature of particularexperiences
a. hermeneutics
b. transcendental enquiry (husserl)
c. transcendental ego (husserl)
d. existential phenomenology
Q. Who is widely known as the first existentialist, despite never having used the wordexistentialism?
a. husserl
b. heidegger
c. sartre
d. søren kierkegaard
Q. Which branch of philosophy is primarily concerned with the question of being?
a. existentialism
b. rationalism
c. idealism
d. platonism
Q. According to Sartre, the starting point of existentialism is
a. objectivity.
b. subjectivity.
c. recognition of death.
d. denial of other minds.
Q. By despair, Sartre means we shall confine ourselves only with what depends upon our
a. will.
b. reason.
c. emotions.
d. appetite.
Q. 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.
Q. 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.