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

After reading Bretano H,eidegger developed an interest in

Who played a major role in introducing Heidegger's work to America?

Heidegger was a

Wittgenstein worked as a hospital porter.

Continental philosophy is a unified school of thought.

Wittgenstein rejected his own early philosophical work.

Wittgenstein wrote on psychology.

Husserl held that consciousness was

What must we do away with, according to Wittgenstein?

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

Wittgenstein was arrogant.

Wittgenstein held that skepticism was

In the analytic tradition the practice of philosophy is active.

Bentham deconstructed the good.

Wittgenstein studied with Russell.

Wittgenstein was interested in the philosophy of mathematics.

In 1920 Wittgenstein believed that he had solved all philosophical problems.

Locke wondered about the effects of linguistic confusions on philosophy.

Do you believe that a person's own life can be divorced from his or her philosophical work? Argue for your answer, drawing as you do on the lives and works of Nietzsche, Wittgenetsin, and Heidegger.

Bertrand Russell was an analytic philosopher.