M4 & M5 Reviewer

Question 1

was a German philosopher, counted among the main exponents of existentialism and was born on September 26, 1889, Messkrich, Schwarzwald, Germany – died Mmay 26 1976, Messkrich, West (Germany)

Answer 1

Martin Heidegger

Question 2

Heidegger was the son of a X of the local Roman Catholic church in Messkrich, Germany

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sexton

Question 3

Heidegger received a X to pursue his secondary education in the neighboring town of Y

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religious scholarship

Konstanz.

Question 4

While in his 20’s, Heidegger studied at the University of Freiburg under X and Y

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Heinrich Rickert

Edmund Husserl.

Question 5

He received a doctorate in philosophy in 1913 with a dissertation on X

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psychologism,

Question 6

In 1915, Heidegger completed his X on the Scholastic theologian John Duns Scotus.

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habilitation thesis

Question 7

Heidegger’s study of classical X by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and others led to a spiritual crisis.

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Protestant texts

Question 8

As a lecturer at Freiburg starting in 1919, Heidegger became heir apparent to the leadership of the movement that Husserl had founded, X.

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phenomenology

Question 9

From Husserl, Heidegger learned the method of X, by which the inherited preconceptions of conscious phenomena are pared away in order to reveal their essence or Y

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phenomenological reduction

primordial truth.

Question 10

In 1923, Heidegger was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the University of X

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Marburg.

Question 11

Hannah Arendt (1906-75), a former student of Heidegger and one of the most important political philosophers of the 20th century, described Heidegger’s subterranean renown as being like a “X.”

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rumor of a hidden king

Question 12

Aristotle’s conception of X or practical wisdom helped Heidegger to define the peculiar “Y” of the human individual in terms of a set of worldly involvements and commitments.

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phronesis

Being

Question 13

X develops a philosophy of technology that actually addresses the blending of science and technology.

Answer 13

Heidegger

Question 14

The essential question is to what extent does technology enslave the human race interfering with X, our potential for the revelation of Being.

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Dasein

Question 15

Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays focuses on X

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how technology obscures the essence of Being

Question 16

X helps us to better understand consciousness and Being

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Technology

Question 17

X define what things are and it tends to be historical. X is a useful tool to define the state of technology.

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Metaphysics

Question 18

The prolific use of X profoundly impacts our thinking processes. As a consequence, we tend to rely more on machines, rather than, on our own brains, to think.

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technology

Question 19

Heidegger discusses the concept of the world in terms of a “X” and this experience leads to a platform whereby Being can be known.

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meaningful structure of experience

Question 20

20. The first pages of “X,” set the terms of Heidegger’s discussion. The first paragraph establishes the essay’s objective: to investigate technology in order to prepare us for a Y to it.

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The Question Concerning Technology

free relationship

Question 21

The orientation of technology is an issue for Heidegger.

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true

Question 22

Heidegger came up with a thought bubble on technology where it is a X and a Y.

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means to an end

human activity

Question 23

Our daily understanding of technology has unseen bumps that kept us from understanding our relationship with it.

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true

Question 24

Heidegger’s pursuit of the fundamental meaning of “X” leads him to an old problem in philosophy: the question of causality.

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instrumentality

Question 25

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

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false instrumental

Question 26

X approaches and concerns us in whatever is, yet X characteristically conceals itself even in so doing

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Being

Question 27

Heidegger’s use of words is very often peculiar to himself. It is characteristically demanding and often strange to our thought.

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true

Question 28

According to Heidegger, language is not an X

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arbitrary construct

Question 29

Heidegger assumes that there is just a single meaning of Being.

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false does not assume

Question 30

X invokes that existentialism is for everyone.

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Sartre

Question 31

According to Sartre, existence X.

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precedes essence

Question 32

When one is choosing how to live, one is choosing for all people.

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true

Question 33

Sartre believes that God exists.

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false does not believe

Question 34

Existentialist finds the fact that God does not exist very X

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distressing.

Question 35

Humans are responsible for both actions and passions.

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true

Question 36

X is determined not by how one feels but how one acts.

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Affection

Question 37

Sartre was influenced by X in his early philosophical writings.

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Husserl

Question 38

Being to Nothingness is an essay in X.

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phenomenological ontology

Question 39

X is the study of Being.

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Ontology

Question 40

X is about perpetual consciousness.

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Phenomenological

Question 41

Sartre accepted Kant’s concept of noumenon.

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false rejected

Question 42

42. Being-for-itself is incomplete and conscious of its own consciousness.

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true

Question 43

43. Sartre is considered the father of X

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Existentialist philosophy

Question 44

44. Unlike Heidegger, however, Sartre does not try to combat metaphysics as a deleterious undertaking.

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true

Question 45

45. Being to Nothingness’s descriptive method moves from the highly concrete to the most abstract

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false most abstract to the highly concrete

Question 46

X and Y have mutually exclusive characteristics and yet we (human reality) are entities that combine both, which is the ontological root of our ambiguity.

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Being-in-itself

being-for-itself

Question 47

X is often described as a Cartesian dualist but this is imprecise.

Answer 47

Sartre

Question 48

48. Accordingly, time with all of its paradoxes is a function of the for-itself’s nihilating or “X” the in-itself. The past is related to the future as in-itself to for-itself and as facticity to possibility, with the present, like “situation” in general, is an ambiguous mixture of both.

Answer 48

othering

Question 49

49. Sartre’s famous analysis of the shame one experiences at being discovered in an embarrassing situation is a phenomenological argument (what Husserl called an “X”) of our awareness of another as the subject.

Answer 49

eidetic reduction

Question 50

X is dialectical in the Hegelian sense that it surpasses and subsumes its other, the Y. The latter, like the in-itself, is inert but as “practico-“ is the sedimentation of previous praxes.

Answer 50

Praxis

practico-inert