Exam 17: The Twentieth Century: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger

Realism is the belief that there exists an independent world of things, facts, and states that are inaccessible to us.

Wittgenstein was arrogant.

What are the main differences between analytic and Continental philosophy? Do they share any characteristics? If so, what? If not, why do you think this is?

Locke wrote in the analytic tradition.

Who recently noted that reason rather than emotion has been regarded as the way to acquire knowledge?

Who are the they , and what are they contrasted with? Do you believe that there is anything objectionable to being one of them ?

When philosophy succeeds, claimed Wittgenstein, it allows us to give philosophical questions

After reading Bretano Heidegger developed an interest in

How was Heidegger s approach to ontology influenced by the work of Aristotle?

Wittgenstein wrote on psychology.

Locke wondered about the effects of linguistic confusions on philosophy.

Who wrote Being and Time ?

Wittgenstein held that skepticism was

Wittgenstein rejected his own early philosophical work.

Husserl and Mill were both Continental philosophers.

Why did Wittgenstein believe that he had solved all the problems of philosophy, and why did he change his mind?

Continental philosophy is a unified school of thought.

Deconstructors defend the view that texts have definite meanings.

In the Tractatus, what did Wittgenstein aim to do?

Who was the secret king of thought ?