rhetorical question

[Sakya kim]

1. Are the following two sentences beginning with 'Did' and 'Did not' questions?

2. What types of question are they?

3. Is first one 'rhetorical question' and second 'affirmative question'?
Or are both 'rhetorical'?

4. Second one doesn't have question mark there. Doesn't it need question mark here?

Context:
Does it not, for instance, appear ironical that this most sober of all the religious doctrines is still considered by many Westerners as some sort of idolatry
or mysticism? Did not the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, already long
years ago, understand and lay stress upon this absolute soberness and clearness of
Buddhism when he said:

Buddhism is a hundred times more realistic than Christianity. It has entered upon the inheritance of objectively and coolly putting problems. It came to life after several hundred years of philosophical development. The notion of “God” is done away with as soon as it appears. Prayer is out of the question. So is asceticism. No categorical imperative. No coercion at all, not even within the monastic community. Hence it also does not challenge to fight against those of a different faith. Its teaching turns against nothing so impressively as against the feeling of revengefulness, animosity and
resentment.

Source: Page. 1
Fundamentals of Buddhism by Nyanatiloka Mahåthera

 

[jutfrank]

You could call them 'negative questions', since the auxiliary verbs are negated by not. They do have a certain rhetorical effect, yes.

They're both interrogative sentences. The second sentence includes the whole quote so a question mark doesn't fit well given the format of presenting the quote as a paragraph of its own. The only place for it would be after the colon.

 

[emsr2d2]

1. Are the following two sentences, beginning with 'Did' and 'Did not', questions?

3. Is the first one a 'rhetorical question' and the second an 'affirmative question' no question mark here or are both 'rhetorical'?

4. The second one doesn't have a question mark. there. Doesn't it need a question mark here?

Note my corrections to questions 1, 3 and 4 above. You need to work on your use of articles.

 

[Tarheel]

They are clearly not questions in the usual sense. (No response is expected.) Where are the "Did" and "Did not" questions?

Jutfrank did an admirable job of following that. (It's hard.)

 

[emsr2d2]

Where are the "Did" and "Did not" questions?

There's an error with the first one. It actually starts with "Does". The other is the second sentence of the first italic paragraph, starting "Did not the German philosopher ...".

 

[Tarheel]

@emsr2d2 Thanks a bunch!

No, it's not a question. It's more of a suggestion.

That post seems to be an excuse to post something about Buddhism.

The OP seems to be asking how you know what is and what isn't a question.