Multiple Choice


1	Which of the following thinkers views the question "What is the meaning of life?" as the expression of a linguistic muddle?
		A)	Kierkegaard
		B)	Sidney Hook
		C)	Tolstoy
		D)	Plato


2	Which of the thinkers below does not construe life as meaningful in virtue of its relation to God?
		A)	Tolstoy
		B)	Russell
		C)	Pascal
		D)	Hawthorne


3	Of the thinkers listed here, which is best characterized as a nihilist?
		A)	Schopenhauer
		B)	Kierkegaard
		C)	Richard Taylor
		D)	Pascal


4	Who is least likely to be considered an existentialist?
		A)	Kierkegaard
		B)	Sartre
		C)	Russell
		D)	Nietzsche


5	Which of the statements below best captures what Kierkegaard likely means by saying "truth is subjectivity"?
		A)	Truth is whatever you want it to be.
		B)	In contexts dealing with issues such as religion, morality, or life's meaning it's important to appropriate truths personally and incorporate them into one's life rather than merely taking a detached, impersonal spectator view of them.
		C)	Even mathematical propositions such as the Pythagorean theorem have no objective basis.
		D)	A scientific "fact" such as the distance between the earth and the moon may be "true for me" while not being "true for you."

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