Deck 14: The Existentialist: Søren Kierkegaard

Question 1

Kierkegaard wished for the individual to be inscribed on his grave.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Kierkegaard rebelled against the system .

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Kierkegaard wrote Neither/Or .

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Kierkegaard wrote in Dutch.

Question 5

Michael Kierkegaard never forgave himself for cursing God.

Question 6

Stumpf claimed that existentialism was a freak occurrence.

Question 7

Kierkegaard s work was well-known in his lifetime.

Question 8

Kierkegaard married Regina Olsen.

Question 9

N.N. is a Danish abbreviation indicating anonymity.

Question 10

Heschel believed that technological progress creates more problems than it solves.

Question 11

Afham means not by him .

Question 12

Climacus denies he is a Christian.

Question 13

Soren Kierkegaard had a sense of despair.

Question 14

Kierkegaard always wrote under his own name.

Question 15

Nietzsche wrote that the most pressing question for scholars was to what end their work was useful.

Question 16

Existentialist themes include choice, freedom, and identity.

Question 17

Kierkegaard claimed that truth is objectivity .

Question 18

Kierkegaard wrote a thesis on Socratic irony.

Question 19

Kierkegaard was interested in what it means to be a Christian.

Question 20

Kierkegaard said that the question is what am I to do?

Question 21

Solzhenitsyn claimed that we erred as that was more comfortable.

Question 22

Will Durant claimed that our culture today is superficial.

Question 23

The ethical man or woman is

A) wicked
B) earnest
C) livid
D) practical

Question 24

Kierkegaard considered objectivity to be a dangerous illusion.

Question 25

The ethical stage involves a commitment to

A) beauty
B) wisdom
C) customs of the individual
D) customs of society

Question 26

Kierkegaard s ethical man is the

A) Prisoner
B) Priest
C) Judge
D) Gentleman

Question 27

The aesthetic stage is characterized by the pursuit of

A) pleasure
B) love
C) beauty
D) wisdom

Question 28

Kierkegaard published three attacks on the Danish Church.

Question 29

Kierkegaard held that becoming a subject was possible for anyone, theist or atheist.

Question 30

Against Kant, Kierkegaard held that man could never be his own

A) teacher
B) judge
C) lawgiver
D) guide

Question 31

How many stages on life s way did Kierkegaard identify?

A) 3
B) 5
C) 7
D) 9

Question 32

Kierkegaard held that objectivity was difficult.

Question 33

Don Juan was a legendary

A) seducer
B) theist
C) philosopher
D) mobster

Question 34

A was expressly

A) a theologian
B) an aesthete
C) a philosopher
D) an agnostic

Question 35

What Enlightenment notion did Kierkegaard believe resulted in despair?

A) God
B) Reason
C) Truth
D) Autonomy

Question 36

Misterlich claimed that mass society creates an army of rival siblings.

Question 37

Kierkegaard died in 1955.

Question 38

The aesthetic stage on life s way is

A) moral
B) amoral
C) immoral
D) Godly

Question 39

Kierkegaard embraced group salvation.

Question 40

A Janus bifrons weeps with one face and laughs with the other.

Question 41

What does Kierkegaard mean by a leap of faith ? Would such a thing be easy to do?

Question 42

What is Latin for from a distance ?

A) Prequel
B) Raquel
C) Procul
D) Requiem

Question 43

For Kierkegaard the ethical is the

A) absurd
B) egoistic
C) rational
D) universal

Question 44

The term used to refer to any philosophy that emphasizes questions of meaning and choice as they affect existing individuals is

A) agnosticism
B) determinism
C) compatibilism
D) existentialism

Question 45

How is the methodological approach of existentialism similar to that of Marxist philosophy? Explain your answer.

Question 46

What, for Kierkegaard, are the different Ways of Life, and how are they related?

Question 47

Johannes Climacus is named after

A) a Greek philosopher
B) a Greek monk
C) a German writer
D) a German journalism

Question 48

What is the System according to Kierkegaard?

A) a lie
B) the Way
C) the truth
D) wisdom

Question 49

What is perhaps the major existential issue?

A) What am I to do?
B) How is one to live?
C) What is right for us?
D) What is society s future?

Question 50

How does (a) happiness, and (b) eudaimonia, feature in Kierkegaard s approach to the question of how to live?

Question 51

For Kierkegaard, what blinds us to existence?

A) Knowledge
B) Faith
C) Subjectivity
D) Detachment

Question 52

What is the condition that results when the nature and needs of the individual are denied for the group?

A) Authenticity
B) Inauthenticity
C) Faith
D) Reason

Question 53

The only perspective from which Abraham did something that was not absurd when he chose to obey the demand to sacrifice his son is that of

A) reason
B) truth
C) wisdom
D) faith

Question 54

Existence is

A) cool
B) detached
C) concrete
D) impersonal

Question 55

Kierkegaard wanted to pass from fragmentation to

A) society
B) faith
C) integration
D) seclusion

Question 56

What does it mean to live an authentic life? Would such a life necessarily be a happy one? Why, or why not? Explain your answer.

Question 57

At what age did Kierkegaard die?

A) 42
B) 27
C) 54
D) 76

Question 58

To be subjective, for Kierkegaard, is to become a subject

A) of thought
B) in truth
C) in name only
D) by association

Question 59

Descartes had reduced existence to

A) thinking
B) pleasure
C) egoism
D) religion

Question 60

Leveling is, for Kierkegaard,

A) the road to objectivity
B) a reduction to mediocrity
C) the Way
D) the Path

Question 61

What is Kierkegaard s conception of truth?

Question 62

What are the main points of difference between the views of Descartes and Kierkegaard? Illustrate your answer with examples.

Question 63

How does Kierkegaard understand subjectivity?