M4S2

Question 1

is arguably the best

known philosopher of the twentieth century.

Answer 1

Jean Paul Sartre

Question 2

Sartre is commonly referred as the

X

Answer 2

Father of Existentialist Philosophy

Question 3

Sartre’s early work is characterised by
phenomenological analyses involving his own
interpretation of X

Answer 3

Husserl’s method.

Question 4

Sartre’s
methodology is X (as demonstrated
in his paper “Intentionality: a fundamental
ideal of Husserl’s phenomenology”) insofar as
it is a form of intentional and eidetic analysis.

Answer 4

Husserlian

Question 5

For X, eidetic analysis is a clarification which brings out the
higher level of the essence that is hidden in ‘fluid unclarity’

Answer 5

Husserl

Question 6

For X, the task of an eidetic analysis does not deliver

something fixed immanent to the phenomenon.

Answer 6

Sartre

Question 7

For Sartre, Husserl adopted the view that the X, as a result of his interpretation of Kant’s unity of
apperception.

Answer 7

subject is a substance

with attributes

Question 8

Husserl endorsed the Kantian claim that the ‘I think’ must
be able to accompany any representation of which I am conscious, but
reified this ‘I’ into a transcendental ego. Such a move is not warranted for
Sartre, as he explains in X

Answer 8

The Transcendence of the Ego.

Question 9

Thus, in his X, Heidegger reminds us that
the analysis of Dasein is only one chapter in the enquiry into the question
of Being.

Answer 9

“Letter on Humanism”

Question 10

Sartre’s theory of existentialism states that “X”, that is only by existing and acting a
certain way do we give meaning to our lives.

Answer 10

existence

precedes essence

Question 11

X can be characterized as a phenomenological
investigation into the nature of what it is to be human, and thus be seen
as a continuation of, and expansion upon, themes characterising the early
works.

Answer 11

Being and Nothingness