Deck 16: The Anti-Philosopher: Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 1

Nietzsche fought a duel.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Modernity refers to the twenty-first century.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Nietzsche believed that Schopenhauer's pessimism was life-affirming.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Nietzsche chose for himself the word "immoralist."

Question 5

Nietzsche believed that we should search for the objective meaning of life.

Question 6

Nietzsche believed that life was the expression of will.

Question 7

Nietzsche believed that there was no divine plan for life.

Question 8

Nietzsche developed the view called "tragic optimism."

Question 9

Schopenhauer believed that life was just a constant will to survive.

Question 10

Nietzsche was born in France.

Question 11

Schopenhauer claimed that our only hope was detachment and withdrawal.

Question 12

Nietzsche died in 1900.

Question 13

Nietzsche believed that anger would kill.

Question 14

Nietzsche thought that there was a universal desire to control others.

Question 15

Nietzsche claimed that it was better to be envied than pitied.

Question 16

Nietzsche held that life was an argument.

Question 17

Modernity rejects faith in science, objective truth, and rationality.

Question 18

Nietzsche proclaimed that God was dead.

Question 19

Schopenhauer had an optimistic philosophy.

Question 20

Nietzsche's work is clear.

Question 21

Reaction formation is

A) an ego defense mechanism
B) an id defense mechanism
C) a way to search for wisdom
D) a scientific error

Question 22

Some postmodern philosophers claim that all philosophy is a form of autobiography.

Question 23

Nietzsche held that the single goal of science was the search for objective truth.

Question 24

Being moralistic is a form of

A) Wisdom
B) Power
C) Engagement
D) Hypocrisy

Question 25

What do utilitarians sublimate the individual to, according to Nietzsche?

A) Herself
B) God
C) The herd
D) Well-being

Question 26

What does science see us as, according to Nietzsche?

A) Helpless effects
B) Religious dupes
C) Evolved apes
D) Agents of change

Question 27

Lou Salome married Nietzsche.

Question 28

Nietzsche advocated perspectivism.

Question 29

Which myth limits us through science, for Nietzsche?

A) Objective reality
B) Subjective truth
C) Evolution
D) Progress

Question 30

An anti-philosopher rejects the authority of reason.

Question 31

Nietzsche held that modernity was

A) the way forward
B) an illusion
C) a sickness
D) a sign of health

Question 32

Freud held that Nietzsche had little self-knowledge.

Question 33

Nietzsche's Zarathustra is a destroyer of false values.

Question 34

Nietzsche equated the will to truth with the will to power.

Question 35

What do we pass sentence on, if we believe in morality, according to Nietzsche?

A) Truth
B) Ourselves
C) Existence
D) Life

Question 36

Nietzsche referred to himself as the last philosopher.

Question 37

Nietzsche observed that everything that elevates the individual above the herd is called

A) wisdom
B) good
C) foolishness
D) evil

Question 38

What did Nietzsche believe the prolonged dominance of scientism would lead to?

A) Progress
B) Ennui
C) Wisdom
D) Self-contempt

Question 39

Nietzsche held that we always do things for the sake of God.

Question 40

For Novack, the will to power is an ache for

A) less
B) more
C) thirst
D) hunger

Question 41

To dream of equal rights was, for Nietzsche, a sign of

A) wisdom
B) poverty
C) fear
D) shallow-mindedness

Question 42

Do you believe that Nietzsche would have approved of mass movements, such as Nazism or Socialism? Explain your answer.

Question 43

The ideal modern citizen is not

A) democratic
B) compassionate
C) sheeplike
D) feral

Question 44

What did Nietzsche mean when he claimed that "God is dead"? Do you agree with his view here? Explain your answer.

Question 45

What value system is based on guilt and fear?

A) Master morality
B) Slave morality
C) Nietzschean optimism
D) Stoicism

Question 46

What does no victor believe in, for Nietzsche?

A) Chance
B) Will
C) Objective value
D) Life

Question 47

What is the dominant emotion of the underman?

A) Joy
B) Resentment
C) Love
D) Hatred

Question 48

What did we kill God with, according to Nietzsche?

A) Religion
B) Wisdom
C) Optimism
D) Pessimism

Question 49

Who claimed that society is "dominated by weak and stupid people"?

A) Russell
B) von Franz
C) Ryle
D) von Hayek

Question 50

What is Nietzsche's "higher type"?

A) The overman
B) The underman
C) The upperman
D) The masterclass

Question 51

Who cannot face being alone in a godless universe, for Nietzsche?

A) The overman
B) The underman
C) Priests
D) Pariahs

Question 52

In what way was Nietzsche influenced by Schopenhauer's work? How did his views depart from it?

Question 53

Nihilism is from the Latin for

A) Truth
B) God
C) Nothing
D) Faith

Question 54

Can you see any positive characteristics of the underman and any negative characteristics of the overman? If so, how do you think that Nietzsche would respond? If not, why not?

Question 55

Nietzsche was clearly

A) insane
B) inauthentic
C) authentic
D) a Nazi

Question 56

The love of our specific fate is

A) amor fati
B) fromage feti
C) fait accompli
D) amor propre

Question 57

For the overman, evil equals

A) wise
B) good
C) vulgar
D) pain

Question 58

Do you agree with Nietzsche's criticisms of morality? Why or why not? Is there any particular moral theory that you think might be especially immune to his criticisms? If so, which one-and why?

Question 59

What did Nietzsche believe that a will to a system was?

A) A lack of faith
B) A lack of integrity
C) A lack of wisdom
D) A lack of intelligence

Question 60

Master morality is, for Nietzsche, based on

A) Aethetics
B) Religion
C) Justice
D) Fear

Question 61

In what way is Nietzsche a modern philosopher, in the sense of "modern" outlined in this chapter? In what way does he reject modernity?

Question 62

Do you believe that Nietzsche would have endorsed the pragmatist approach to truth? Why or why not?

Question 63

What is the "will to power"? Do you agree that this is a significant motive force in people's lives? Why or why not?