M4 Formative Questions

Question 1

Satre claims that according to existentialism, there is no reality except in:

Answer 1

action

Question 2

Critique of Dialectical Reason, vol. 1 was published in 1960

Answer 2

true

Question 3

Sartre’s earliest philosophical writing were very phenomenological in orientation, written very much under the influence of Husserl.

Answer 3

true

Question 4

Sartre was never a Marxist of the strict observance

Answer 4

true

Question 5

Sartre claims that the value of one’s affection is determined by:

Answer 5

the way one acts

Question 6

Transcendence of the Ego, published in either 1936 or 1937

Answer 6

true 36

Question 7

The first of these two works is L’imagination, which appeared in 1936, and has been translated under the title: Imagination: A Psychological Critique.

Answer 7

true

Question 8

sartre’s earliest philosophical writings were very phenomenological in orientation, written very much under the influence of heidegger.

Answer 8

false (influ by husserl)

Question 9

It is a work by Martin Heidegger, in which the author discusses the essence of technology. Heidegger originally published the text in 1954, in Vorträge und Aufsätze.

Answer 9

The Question Concerning Technology

Question 10

These answers makeup what Heidegger calls the current anthropological (which is aimed at getting things done) and instrumental (a human activity) definition of technology.

Answer 10

false (instrumental [aimed at getting things done] and anthropological [a human activity] definition of technology”

Question 11

sartre’s third main period, he moves to a kind of marxism

Answer 11

true

Question 12

“The first paragraph establishes the essay’s objective: to investigate technology in order to prepare us for a “free relationship” to it. This is from The End of Philosophy (book) by Heidegger”

Answer 12

false (The Questions Concerning Technology)

Question 13

Even our attempts to maintain control over technology, to master it so that it doesn’t destroy us, are informed by our instrumental conception of what technology is. Group of answer choices

Answer 13

true

Question 14

No Exit (1944). A short and very fine play with strong philosophical overtones.

Answer 14

true

Question 15

In Sartre’s view, when one chooses how to live one is choosing

Answer 15

for all people

Question 16

sartre was an idealist, believing that we have no direct way of perceiving the external world and that all we have access to is our ideas of the world, including what our senses tell us.

Answer 16

false (kant)

Question 17

Heidegger opposes the view that technology is a human activity

Answer 17

true

Question 18

A habilitation thesis is a requirement for teaching at the university level in Germany. It’s something Heidegger pursued in 1915 but was never completed.

Answer 18

false (nacomplete niya yung thesis niya)

Question 19

In Messkrich, Heidegger was a son of a sexton of the local Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 19

true

Question 20

To uncover the truth about the central question of Being, Heidegger uses logic but insisted that it cannot lead to spiritual and historical renewal.

Answer 20

false

Question 21

Protestant texts were studied by Heidegger that led to his spiritual crisis. Some of those are from:

Answer 21

calvin and luther