Deck 17: The Twentieth Century: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger

Question 1

Wittgenstein was interested in the philosophy of mathematics.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Continental philosophy is a unified school of thought.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

In the analytic tradition people do theology.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Wittgenstein was arrogant.

Question 5

Analytic philosophy is a method.

Question 6

Wittgenstein fought in World War One.

Question 7

Bentham endorsed philosophical deconstructionism.

Question 8

Philosophical deconstructors approach philosophy historically.

Question 9

Philosophical deconstruction found expression in Nietzsche s work.

Question 10

Heidegger believed that the dimension of grace has been closed in this age.

Question 11

In the analytic tradition the practice of philosophy is active.

Question 12

Deconstructors defend the view that texts have definite meanings.

Question 13

Husserl and Mill were both Continental philosophers.

Question 14

Wittgenstein studied with Russell.

Question 15

Wittgenstein was a dolt.

Question 16

From the eighteenth century onwards philosophy has become increasingly specialized.

Question 17

A French philosopher could be an analytic philosopher and not a Continental philosopher.

Question 18

Wittgenstein held that when we do philosophy we are like savages.

Question 19

Locke wrote in the analytic tradition.

Question 20

Bertrand Russell was an analytic philosopher.

Question 21

Locke wondered about the effects of linguistic confusions on philosophy.

Question 22

Wittgenstein worked as a hospital porter.

Question 23

Wittgenstein wrote on psychology.

Question 24

Russell took a professional philosophical interest in social issues.

Question 25

Wittgenstein believed that he had had a wonderful life.

Question 26

Wittgenstein was a fighter pilot.

Question 27

Wittgenstein explicitly claimed that what cannot be said cannot be

A) thought
B) caused
C) colored
D) written

Question 28

For Wittgenstein, objects

A) can only be analyzed
B) can only be pictured
C) can be both analyzed and pictured
D) can be neither analyzed or pictured

Question 29

Wittgenstein designed doorknobs.

Question 30

Wittgenstein rejected his own early philosophical work.

Question 31

How many numbered propositions are in the Tractatus ?

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

Question 32

Analytic philosophers embraced

A) metaphysics
B) irrealism
C) constructivism
D) realism

Question 33

When philosophy succeeds, claimed Wittgenstein, it allows us to give philosophical questions

A) a rest
B) answers
C) the truth
D) names

Question 34

Who wrote of language games ?

A) Wittgenstein
B) Plato
C) Stace
D) Rawls

Question 35

Wittgenstein held that skepticism was

A) impossible to refute
B) meaningful
C) psychologically impossible
D) nonsensical

Question 36

Wittgenstein held that sentences that cannot be reduced to simple symbols are

A) meaningless
B) cryptic
C) puzzling
D) meaningful

Question 37

What did Wittgenstein believe would never touch the important problems of life?

A) Philosophy
B) Theology
C) Science
D) Religion

Question 38

Realism is the belief that there exists an independent world of things, facts, and states that are inaccessible to us.

Question 39

In the Tractatus, what did Wittgenstein aim to do?

A) Prove what the structure of language was.
B) Explain what the structure of language was.
C) Show what the structure of language was.
D) Question what the structure of language was.

Question 40

In 1920 Wittgenstein believed that he had solved all philosophical problems.

Question 41

Who was the secret king of thought ?

A) Wittgenstein
B) Russell
C) Rawls
D) Heidegger

Question 42

Heidegger broke with

A) Bretano
B) Catholicism
C) Socialism
D) Communism

Question 43

Who recently noted that reason rather than emotion has been regarded as the way to acquire knowledge?

A) Rawls
B) Jagger
C) Heidegger
D) Russell

Question 44

Who are the they , and what are they contrasted with? Do you believe that there is anything objectionable to being one of them ?

Question 45

How was Heidegger s approach to ontology influenced by the work of Aristotle?

Question 46

Heidegger married

A) Consuelo Preti
B) Elfride Petri
C) Consuelo Petri
D) Edith Preti

Question 47

Ontology is the study of

A) nothingness
B) being
C) the Other
D) space

Question 48

Heidegger was a

A) Communist
B) Stalinist
C) Nazi
D) Trotskyite

Question 49

Who wrote Being and Time ?

A) Sartre
B) Heidegger
C) Searle
D) Russell

Question 50

Heidegger tended to seek solace in

A) the Black Forest
B) Scotland
C) bars
D) silent thought

Question 51

What is it to live a distinctively human life? In answering this question you should draw on Heidegger s work. Do you believe that he was right?

Question 52

Husserl held that consciousness was

A) intentional
B) a myth
C) fixed
D) impossible

Question 53

After reading Bretano Heidegger developed an interest in

A) Plato
B) Epicurus
C) Aristotle
D) Nietzsche

Question 54

Who said that we have abolished the true world?

A) Heidegger
B) Nietzsche
C) Bretano
D) Hitler

Question 55

Who played a major role in introducing Heidegger s work to America?

A) Arendt
B) Steiner
C) Bretano
D) Preti

Question 56

Who has been described as a dismal windbag ?

A) Wittgenstein
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
D) Heidegger

Question 57

What must we do away with, according to Wittgenstein?

A) Truth
B) Justice
C) Description
D) Explanation

Question 58

Do you believe that a person own life can be divorced from his or her philosophical work? Argue for your answer, drawing as you do on the lives and works of Nietzsche, Wittgenetsin, and Heidegger.

Question 59

Hannah Arendt was

A) Catholic
B) Jewish
C) Protestant
D) a Nazi

Question 60

Why did Wittgenstein believe that he had solved all the problems of philosophy, and why did he change his mind?

Question 61

How is Heidegger s view of death similar to, and different from, that of Epicurus?

Question 62

What is Heidegger s attitude towards technology? Do you share it? Why, or why not?

Question 63

What are the main differences between analytic and Continental philosophy? Do they share any characteristics? If so, what? If not, why do you think this is?