What Is Metaphysics? by Martin Heidegger - Test
  • 1. How does Heidegger define metaphysics?
A) As the philosophy of knowledge
B) As a branch of ethics
C) As the question of being
D) As the study of the divine
  • 2. What term does Heidegger use to describe the state of human existence?
A) Noumena
B) Dasein
C) Consciousness
D) Ego
  • 3. What fundamental question does Heidegger believe metaphysics should address?
A) What is truth?
B) What is reality?
C) What is knowledge?
D) What is the meaning of being?
  • 4. Heidegger refers to the question of being as what?
A) The fundamental question
B) An outdated inquiry
C) The secondary concern
D) A trivial pursuit
  • 5. What philosophical movement is Heidegger often associated with?
A) Rationalism
B) Empiricism
C) Structuralism
D) Existentialism
  • 6. In what way does Heidegger suggest we experience nothingness?
A) Through religious faith
B) Through rational thought
C) Through social interaction
D) Through existential anxiety
  • 7. Heidegger's lecture was originally delivered in what year?
A) 1945
B) 1952
C) 1929
D) 1935
  • 8. What does Heidegger warn against in philosophical tradition?
A) The pursuit of happiness
B) The search for meaning
C) The forgetfulness of being
D) The application of logic
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