1. According to Kierkegaard, in their efforts to instruct us, objective approaches to philosophy _____ . a. give us a blueprint for living that we can choose to accept as is or modify b. teach us how to exist c. fail us when it comes to learning how to exist d. are practical and passionate when properly understood and applied

1. The Kierkegaardian self wants desperately to do what is right yet lacks _____. a. nothing b. sufficient information upon which to act c. everything but information d. a conscience and a good will

1. Kierkegaard identifies _____ stages on life's way. a. one true and three false b. four c. an infinite number of d. three

1. According to Kierkegaard, existing is possible only when we have _____ . a. some sort of God-relation b. something we can believe in c. the God-relation d. faith, hope, and courage

1. Kierkegaard offers _____ arguments for the existence of God. a. no b. five c. causal and ontological d. existential

1. According to Kierkegaard, _____. a. we are only in despair when we try to be what we are not meant to be b. despair is a state of mind and as such can be conquered by will power c. once we fall into despair, we are lost forever d. we are in despair whether we know it or not

1. According to Kierkegaard, we have _____. a. a single, hidden nature composed of the infinite b. a double nature composed of the infinite and finite c. a three-fold nature composed of aesthetic, ethical, and religious impulses d. no nature until we choose or create one

1. According to Kierkegaard, the _____ stage of life is characterized by whim and caprice. a. unreligious b. ethically free c. passionate d. aesthetic

1. According to Kierkegaard, the legendary seducer Don Juan is an exemplar of the _____ stage of life. a. seductive b. aesthetic c. passionate d. human, merely human

1. Which of the following is not one of Kierkegaard's pseudonyms ? a. A b. A. B. C. D. E. F. Godthaab c. Bishop Mynster d. Hilarius Bookbinder

1. The _____ stage on life's way is where Kierkegaard thinks most of us spend most of our lives. a. ethical b. aesthetic c. conformist d. social

1. According to Kierkegaard, the _____ way of living is boring. a. ethical b. religious c. aesthetic d. existential

1. According to Kierkegaard, the _____ way of life involves making a commitment to the norms, principles, and customs of society. a. ethical b. conformist c. religious d. normal

1. According to Kierkegaard, the _____ way of life involves "infinitizing" myself by adopting universal principles. a. religious b. ethical c. Godly d. egalitarian

1. According to Kierkegaard, the ethical stage of life _____ . a. flows seamlessly from the aesthetic stage b. reflects God's will in universal principles c. turns everything upside down by making humanity the arbiter of good and evil d. sets everything aright by making humanity the arbiter of good and evil

1. Kierkegaard believed that Kantian (and Enlightenment) notions of human autonomy _____ . a. are good insofar as they go and insofar as they establish objective evidence of God's good will b. are necessary predecessors for becoming a subject and for living authentically c. are simply more palatable versions of religion for our secular age d. result in despair because human judgment is always subject to doubt

1. According to Kierkegaard, our most passionate ethical commitments are to_____ . a. nothing and no oneethical commitments are never passionate b. our culture c. our kin d. ourselves

1. According to Kierkegaard, the only way to escape despair is by _____. a. finding a meaning or purposeany purpose, so long as it is heartfelt and passionate b. committing ourselves to a Christian church c. a teleological embrace of the ethical d. a teleological suspension of the ethical

1. According to Kierkegaard, if one is ever to escape the despair inherent in the crowd life, the aesthetic life, and the ethical life, it is necessary to _____ . a. find a way to harmonize the conflicting desires and demands of modern life into a self-created whole b. commit oneself to universal principles and then live up to them c. avoid the twin traps of boredom and lust d. leap toward God and the religious way of life

1. According to Kierkegaard, Abraham was only able to consider sacrificing Isaac because he was _____. a. courageous and autonomous b. supremely moral and ethical c. desperate d. willing to make a leap of faith that went beyond reason and beyond the ethical

1. According to Kierkegaard, the whole history of humanity's relationship to God is _____ . a. one of give and take b. only apparently absurd; seen correctly, it is reasonable and clear c. ethically pristine d. ethically absurd