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C) An outdated inquiry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