Verified Test Bank Chapter 14 Existentialism

Chapter 14: Existentialism

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Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 01

1) Philosophers regard __________ as the father of modern existentialism.

a. Sartre

b. Nietzsche

c. Kierkegaard

d. Heidegger

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 02

2) Philosophers regard __________ as the last great existentialist thinker.

a. Sartre

b. Nietzsche

c. Kierkegaard

d. Heidegger

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 03

3) Existentialism focuses on ultimate questions concerning __________.

a. metaphysics

b. abstract truths

c. how to live

d. scientific objectivity

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 04

4) All but __________ are main existentialist themes.

a. individualism and subjectivity

b. freedom and responsibility

c. epistemology and metaphysics

d. anguish and absurdity

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 05

5) Fideism is the notion that religious belief is grounded in __________.

a. reason, not sense experience

b. faith, not reason

c. sense experience, not reason

d. faith, not sense experience

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 06

6) Kierkegaard laments that society has replaced individuals with __________.

a. religious devotion

b. workers

c. people who have “forgotten what it means to exist”

d. “automatons”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 07

7) According to Kierkegaard, the __________ is the opposite of the individual.

a. church

b. crowd

c. factory

d. parliament

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 08

8) Kierkegaard wants to replace the “what” of what is believed with the__________ of what is believed.

a. “when”

b. “where”

c. “how”

d. “why”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 09

9) Kierkegaard claims that __________ is the truth.

a. subjectivity

b. objectivity

c. relativism

d. absolutism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 10

10) The will to power is, according to Nietzsche, the fundamental __________.

a. drive to succeed in life

b. nature of existence as a drive to control and dominate

c. nature of the animal world

d. principle of divinity

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 11

11) Nietzsche thinks that all human struggle is a reflection of __________.

a. master morality

b. slave morality

c. the will to power

d. the overman

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 12

12) Nietzsche thinks Christianity is an example of __________.

a. master morality

b. slave morality

c. the will to power

d. the overman

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 13

13) Both master and slave moralists define themselves as __________.

a. good

b. evil

c. true

d. religious

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 14

14) In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche describes the overman as the __________.

a. future of slave morality

b. religious leader

c. leader of master morality

d. future of mortal human life

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 15

15) When Nietzsche asserts, “God is dead,” he means that __________.

a. belief in the Christian God is untenable

b. slave morality is over

c. God has been killed off by shrinking church membership

d. master morality is over

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 16

16) For __________, the question of being is a question of existence itself.

a. Kierkegaard

b. Nietzsche

c. Heidegger

d. Sartre

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 17

17) Throughout his career Heidegger was consumed by the question of __________.

a. time

b. being

c. God’s existence

d. the meaning of life

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 18

18) __________ is Heidegger’s central concept in the discussion of being.

a. Projection

b. Fallenness

c. Dasein

d. Authenticity

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 19

19) Heidegger asserts Dasein “is __________.”

a. the being for which being is an issue

b. synonymous with the individual

c. humanity

d. consciousness

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 20

20) All but __________ are fundamental aspects of Dasein.

a. thrownness

b. authenticity

c. projection

d. fallenness

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 21

21) When Sartre asserts that “essence precedes existence”, he means that humans __________.

a. have an essence realized through their choices

b. have no essence to realize

c. do not initially understand their essence

d. reject the idea that they have an essence

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 22

22) Sartre claims that human beings are __________.

a. superficially free

b. at least sometimes free

c. nominally free

d. radically free

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 23

23) Sartre asserts, “We are condemned to __________.”

a. suffer

b. be free

c. our fate

d. die

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 24

24) Sartre is a proponent of __________.

a. theistic existentialism

b. theistic phenomenology

c. atheistic existentialism

d. atheistic phenomenology

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 25

25) Sartre declares the first principle of existentialism is, “Man is nothing else but what __________.”

a. he makes of himself

b. he has been blessed with by God

c. society constructs of him

d. he can gain from others

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 26

26) According to Sartre, anguish is the realization __________.

a. of one’s “total indebtedness to God”

b. of one’s “total and deep responsibility”

c. of one’s “total commitment to faith”

d. that “God is dead”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 27

27) According to Sartre, the existentialist “thinks it very distressing that God __________.”

a. exists

b. does not exist

c. creates morality

d. does not create morality

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 28

28) Sartre thinks our freedom means we have no __________.

a. knowledge

b. direction

c. happiness

d. excuses

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 29

29) In existentialism, absurdity is a sense of meaningless and irrationality in the world arising from __________.

a. our freedom

b. the conflict between our need for meaning and an indifferent universe

c. abandonment by God

d. secularism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 30

30) The opposite of living authentically is to act __________.

a. immorally

b. in anguish

c. in bad faith

d. unseriously

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 31

31) According to Kierkegaard, Christian belief is absurd.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 32

32) Kierkegaard asserts that all truth is objective.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 33

33) Nietzsche asserts that “the crowd is the untruth.”

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 34

34) In existentialism, absurdity is synonymous with a logical contradiction.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 35

35) Kierkegaard is a fideist.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 36

36) According to Kierkegaard, any attempt to make religion conform to reason is doomed to fail.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 37

37) According to existentialism, people live authentically when they accept their freedom and responsibility and recognize that they alone are the designers of their lives.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 38

38) Existentialism offers rules and principles that show us how to live a moral life.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 39

39) Anguish and absurdity are central existentialist themes.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 40

40) Kierkegaard declares that “existence precedes essence.”

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 41

41) The heart of existentialism is its emphasis on the freedom of the individual.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 42

42) The existentialist emphasis on subjectivity reveals that all existentialists are moral relativists.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 43

43) Kierkegaard bemoans a lack of reason in society.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 44

44) Sartre thinks the response to our existential condition is “anguish, forlornness, despair.”

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 45

45) Nietzsche equates master morality with Christianity.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 46

46) Nietzsche argues that Christians associate goodness with characteristics such as sympathy and kindness.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 47

47) Nietzsche argues that slave morality is not life-affirming.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 48

48) Sartre asserts that “We are condemned to be free” because we have killed God.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 49

49) Camus argues that we should embrace the absurdity of life.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 14 Question 50

50) Nietzsche associates the will to power with affirming life.

a. True

b. False