Quiz: Søren Kierkegaard

When was Søren Kierkegaard born?

• 1813, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 1844, Röcken, Germany.
• 1788, Danzig, in what is now Poland.
• 1798, Montpellier, France.

When did Søren Kierkegaard die?

• 1855, Copenhagen.
• 1831, Berlin, of cholera.
• 1814, Berlin, of typhus.
• 1883, London, England.

What is Søren Kierkegaard known for?

• The leap of faith, the three stages of life, aesthetic, ethical, religious, and the attack on comfortable Christendom.
• On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and The Subjection of Women, an early argument for women's equality.
• God is dead, the will to power, the Übermensch, master and slave morality, and the eternal recurrence.
• Modern predicate logic, the sense and reference distinction, and the logicist program.

Which school of thought was Søren Kierkegaard part of?

• Existentialism, its Christian founder.
• Positivism.
• None; the critic of all schools.
• Post Kantian pessimism, drawing on Indian thought.

True or false: Danish thinker, the father of existentialism, who wrote under pseudonyms about the individual's leap of faith against Hegel's system.

• True
• False