Basic Heidegger...

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1. Heidegger isn't commonly associated with which of the following movements ? Dialectical Materialism Existentialism National Socialism Phenomenology

2. To whom did Heidegger dedicate "Being and Time"? Friedrich Nietzsche Edmund Husserl G. W. F. Hegel Friedrich Hölderlin

3. In the beginning of "Being and Time" Heidegger mentions a battle concerning Being. According to this passage this battle is fought by whom? children philosophers giants beings

4. According to Heidegger, after the time of Plato and Aristotle, Western philosophy lost sight of what type of questioning? Questioning concerning Being Questioning concerning Freedom Questioning concerning History Questioning concerning Forms

5. Heidegger writes that there is something that "is itself a definite characteristic of Dasein's Being. Dasein is ontically distinctive in that it is ontological." What is that something? Understanding of Being Readiness-to-hand Being-present-at-hand Being-for-itself

6. "When Dasein is absorbed in the world of its concern—that is, at the same time, in its Being-with towards Others—it is not itself. Who is it, then, who has taken over Being as everyday Being-with-one-another?" Obstinacy Nothingness The they Anxiety

7. Something "throws Dasein back upon that which it is anxious about—its authentic potentiality-for-Being-in-the-world." This something "individualizes Dasein for its ownmost Being-in-the-world, which as something that understands, projects itself essentially upon possibilities." What is this something? Nothingness The they Anxiety Obstinacy

8. What is "that possibility which is one's ownmost, which is non-relational, and which is not to be outstripped?" Death Authenticity Nothingness Being-there

9. When asked why he hadn't addressed ethics, how did Heidegger respond? "I am not concerned with ethics." He simply didn't respond. "Fundamental ontology is the prerequiste of all ethical inquiry." "In reality ontology and ethics are one."

10. What did Rudolph Carnap write in "summing up" Heidegger's "Being and Time"? "His philsophy is extremely obscure" "Psychological observation made to pass for logic" "A ham sandwich is better than God" "Language is here running riot"