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Exploring Existential Philosophy: A Quiz
Test your knowledge on existential philosophy, morality, and the ideas of influential thinkers like Nietzsche, Rousseau, and Hobbes. This quiz delves into key concepts of legitimacy, authority, and societal constructs, challenging your understanding of political and moral frameworks.
Key Features:
- 46 thought-provoking questions
- Multi-choice format
- Reflects on key philosophical ideas
To Nietzsche, the truly political person is the one who is free from ...
Himself
The morality of custom
Fear
Conscience
For Nietzsche, if there is a purpose to human life as we know it, it is to bring about a new form of life. How does he name this new form of life?
Elephant Man
Superman
Batman
Ironman
What was the purpose of the “Heinz dilemma”? To understand ...
How people morally reason their choice
How people lie to themselves
How people react to pain
What people are ready to do for money
Literally, what does “legitimacy” mean?
Lawlessness
Lawfulness
Compliance
Consent
What does “authority” mean, according to Max Weber?
Knowing the best
The power to enforce obedience
The power to enforce law
A legitimate power and the power to legitimate
Value-legitimation is about ...
What we do, or ought to do
What we are, or ought to become
What we think about ethics
What products we value most
Popular sovereignty is
Value-legitimation
An ethical relic of a bygone era
Virtue-legitimation
Giving power to a popular leader
To which value-legitimation is the Milgram experiment a perfect fit?
Mill’s harm principle
Kant’s principle of morality
Rawls’ maximin principle
Rousseau’s theory of freedom
What is the most existentially troubling aspect of the Milgram experiment?
People’s denial of making bad choices
The flight from freedom and the birth of bad faith
The “legitimation loop”
All answers are correct
What does Hume’s “No-Ought-From-Is” mean?
We cannot justify our actions by appealing to nature
We can justify our actions by appealing to nature
We cannot split facts from ethics
Nature tells us what we ought to do
According to Rousseau, nature has made everything in the best way possible, but...
God has destroyed it
Men spoil everything
War has destroyed it
Nothing is perfect
How do social contract thinkers, such as Hobbes, Lock or Rousseau, justify political orders? By imagining ...
A state of nature
A perfect society
Life in heaven
A world without war
According to Kohlberg’s “stage 4.5,” what is the basis of moral judgments?
Rationality
Authority
Emotions
Factuality
What are the three main socio-political moral compasses? God, People, and _________?
Culture
Art
Science
Nature
What is the birthplace of all monotheistic civilizations?
Abraham’s willingness to murder his son
The Ten Commandments
Agamemnon’s willingness to murder his daughter
Eve eating the forbidden fruit
According to Kierkegaard, Agamemnon is
A loser
God’s victim
A tragic hero
Insignificant
Why did God create humanity, according to Nietzsche?
To propagate love
Out of boredom
To show his power
To propagate suffer
What happened to God, according to Nietzsche?
He was murdered
He committed suicide
He disappeared
He was kidnapped
To Nietzsche, what has killed God?
War
The end of people’s faith in him
Living science and living people
Natural catastrophes
What does the biblical Leviathan symbolize?
The vast seas
Man’s need to control animals
God’s creativity
God’s absolute domination over man
What is Hobbes’ Leviathan role?
To scare people
To protect people
To kill people
To steal people
What describes Behemoth?
The people helping the state
The people rejecting the state
The state helping the people
The state turning against the people
What is Nietzsche’s main task? To record the emergence and evolution of
Moralities
History
Societies
Religion
Religion offers at least one of the two:
Transcendence and sanctification
Happiness and meaning
Food and thought
God and prophets
How did the human quest for existential legitimation start, according to Karl Jaspers? With
The Middle Age
The Bronze Age
The Axial Age
The Renaissance
How did Max Weber saw the social implications of “the death of God”?
The disenchantment of the world
The magic of the world
The beauty of the world
The rationalization of the world
What does the theory of the de-secularization of the world suggest?
Modernization weakens religion
Modernization often strengthens religion
Religion weakens modernity
Religion strengthens modernity
What are the three socio-political facets of religion today? Religion as a resource for modern politics, as a source of politics and as a
Civil society
Civil religion
Civil culture
Civil history
What are unalienable rights?
Certain rights that can never be taken away from people
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
The rights of non-aliens
Rights right here on earth
What emotions and thoughts are part of alienation?
Resentment
Loneliness, aloneness
Estrangement
Apathy
Meaninglessness
Hopelessness
All the above
Attach a thinker to the sort of alienation he focused on: Marx
Alienation from God and Nature
Socio-political alienation
Artifactual alienation
Attach a thinker to the sort of alienation he focused on: Camus
Alienation from God and Nature
Socio-political alienation
Artifactual alienation
Attach a thinker to the sort of alienation he focused on: Kierkegaard
Alienation from God and Nature
Socio-political alienation
Artifactual alienation
According to Ivan Turgenev…
Hamlet is smart, and Don Quixote is stupid
Hamlet is sarcastic and rational, incapable of love, and Don Quixote idealist, selfless, and full of love
Hamlet is much braver than Don Quixote
Hamlet is the one actually fighting windmills
According to Rousseau, amour-propre is
Pure and simple
Seeks comparative success
Is the salvation of humans
A modern disease that can never be ameliorated
According to Buber, human relations should aspire to become
I-It
I-He
I-Them
I-Thou
When was the first mention of “love” in the bible?
When Adam fell in love with Eve
God’s love for the people after the Deluge
God asks Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son
God’s love to Mother Nature
What is existential love?
Caring for our existence
Committing suicide together
Reading Sartre together in bed
Meaning-making
What is Jaspers’ idea of existenz?
Going through life without questions
Meditating on the nature of existence
Experience of transcendence
Snoozing in classes on existentialism
In Orwell’s 1984, “the sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion” because
Desire was forbidden
Most people we to bust and busy for it
After sex, people went to demonstrate
Few people could succeed at it
Winston’s real rebellion started with Julia’s note telling him
Down Big Brother”
Make Love, not War”
I love you”
What do you think about Emmanuel Goldstein?”
Winston and Julia believe they will not betray each other because
They love each other so much
They have great sex
They love no one else
The Party can’t change their feelings
In room 101, Winston’s betrayal came when he shouted out
Let me go!”
I love big brother!”
2+2=5”
Do it to Julia!”
In Orwell’s 1984
Love conquers all
Pain and fear trump love
Love is politically powerful
Free love reigns
Gershom Scholem criticized Arendt for
Her affair with Heidegger
Her weak familiarity with the classical philosophy
Not paying attention to Nazi crimes
Not loving the Jewish people
Which of the three did not use love in politics
Fascism
Hippies
Liberalism
All used love
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