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

Question 1

Bertrand Russell was an analytic philosopher.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Wittgenstein fought in World War One.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Deconstructors defend the view that texts have definite meanings.

Question 5

Analytic philosophy emerged in France.

Question 6

From the eighteenth century onwards, philosophy has become increasingly specialized.

Question 7

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

Question 8

Analytic philosophy is a method.

Question 9

Wittgenstein was arrogant.

Question 10

Locke wrote in the analytic tradition.

Question 11

In the analytic tradition the practice of philosophy is active.

Question 12

Husserl and Mill were both Continental philosophers.

Question 13

Bentham deconstructed the good.

Question 14

Continental philosophy is a unified school of thought.

Question 15

Wittgenstein was a dolt.

Question 16

Wittgenstein was interested in the philosophy of mathematics.

Question 17

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

Question 18

Philosophical deconstruction found expression in Nietzsche's work.

Question 19

Wittgenstein studied with Russell.

Question 20

Philosophical deconstructors approach philosophy historically.

Question 21

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 22

Russell took a professional philosophical interest in social issues.

Question 23

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

Question 24

Locke wondered about the effects of linguistic confusions on philosophy.

Question 25

Who wrote of "language games"?

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

Question 26

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

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

Question 27

How many numbered propositions are in the Tractatus ?

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

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 wrote on psychology.

Question 31

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

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

Question 32

Wittgenstein said that he'd had a "wonderful life."

Question 33

Wittgenstein worked as a hospital porter.

Question 34

Wittgenstein was a fighter pilot.

Question 35

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

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

Question 36

Wittgenstein explicitly claimed that what cannot be said cannot be

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

Wittgenstein held that skepticism was

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

Question 39

Analytic philosophers embraced

A) idealistic metaphysics
B) pragmatism
C) constructivism
D) realism

Question 40

Wittgenstein rejected his own early philosophical work.

Question 41

Ontology is the study of

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

Question 42

Heidegger "broke with"

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

Question 43

Do you believe that a person's 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 44

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 45

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

Question 46

What must we do away with, according to Wittgenstein?

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

Question 47

Hannah Arendt was

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

Question 48

Heidegger tended to seek solace in

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

Question 49

Who was the "secret king of thought"?

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

Question 50

Heidegger married

A) Consuela Preti
B) Thea Elfride Petri
C) Consuela Petri
D) Edith Preti

Question 51

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

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

Question 52

Who has been described as a "dismal windbag"?

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

Question 53

After reading Bretano H,eidegger developed an interest in

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

Question 54

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 55

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

Question 56

Heidegger was a

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

Question 57

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

Question 58

Who wrote Being and Time ?

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

Question 59

Husserl held that consciousness was

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

Question 60

Who said that we have abolished the true world?

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

Question 61

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

Question 62

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?

Question 63

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