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Critique of Pure Reason Trivia Quiz

Immmanuel Kant is perhaps the most important philosopher since Plato. His ideas of the process of thought and cognition truly did begin a "Copernican revolution", which is to be still filtered down us today. Please filter along...

A multiple-choice quiz by thejazzkickazz. Estimated time: 5 mins.

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thejazzkickazz

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Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who was the philosopher that shook Kant to such a degree, that he was compelled to publish this interesting tome? Hint

Socrates

George Berkeley

Aristotle

David Hume

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Question 2 of 10

2. What does Kant call the 'pure, original and unchanging consciousness'? Hint

mindfulness

empirical apperception

cultural norms

transcendental apperception

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Question 3 of 10

3. Is there such a thing as the Original Mind in Kant's system, which creates the order of all space and time?

Yes

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Question 4 of 10

4. How is "logic" defined as according to Kant?

Hint

habitual thought

nothing but symbols with meaningless sounds

a priori methodologies which strive at perfection

Logic is the subjective validation of the reproductive imagination and relational combinatorics, to describe and understand the "objective unity of apperception".

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Question 5 of 10

5. What does Kant refer to as 'intensive magnitudes' and 'extensive magnitudes'? Hint

appearances

time

force

space

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Question 6 of 10

6. Experience is the function of perception. Perception is the function of time. What are the three modalities of Time? Hint

succession & simultaneity & persistence

intransigence & persistence & succession

duration & feeling & incoporeality

invisibility & continuity & sympathy

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Question 7 of 10

7. Kant divides the categories of objects into mundus sensibilis and mundus intelligibis. What are these categories better known as? Hint

noumena & phenomena

time and space

sensation & matter

appearance & levity

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Question 8 of 10

8. Kant realizes that reason has a negative utility, namely to govern itself from going beyond its limitations. Reason, then has only one practical use- what is its practical usage? Hint

nothing

creating systems

understanding

analysis

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Question 9 of 10

9. Questions of morality is tantamount to the function of reason.

True

False

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Question 10 of 10

10. The rational concept of the Being is built on "I think". What other philosopher made this concept so familiar?

Answer: (D-------)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who was the philosopher that shook Kant to such a degree, that he was compelled to publish this interesting tome?

Answer: David Hume

Hume created a severe sense of disconnection in Kant. Hume's skeptical analysis of the mind's power to understand reality, shook Kant to a disturbing degree, that this book was probably written in order to justify that the mind was somewhat capable of understanding reality.

2. What does Kant call the 'pure, original and unchanging consciousness'?

Answer: transcendental apperception

This form of consciousness (purusha) is what the Eastern mystics and Buddhist believe lies at the heart of each individual. This is the true self and the most essential aspect of consciousness. I am actually surprised Kant mentions this fact, but the correlation is not made from Western philosophy to Eastern philosophy. At the heart of Kantian philosophy, lies the essence of certain transcendental aspects, which cannot be answered by the typical apperceptive-empirical logic that permeates science. Although rational thought and logic are very effective tools, they merely point to the proper direction for the mind to travel and once attainment is achieved, logic is merely a tool no longer needed.

3. Is there such a thing as the Original Mind in Kant's system, which creates the order of all space and time?

Answer: yes

Before the a priori space and concept, Kant imagines there is an architectonic schema of the Original Mind. From this schema of a priori form, the synthesis of reality is then created and shared by other conscious beings. Synthesis and existence of reality is comparable to the notion of the Indian idea of the Brahmin, dreaming reality into existence.

In some sense, reality despite it impenetrability and perdurance, is still dependent on the Nous for its existence. Morality, freedom and God, then all exist on the incoporeal principle of the Nous.

As Platonic as these ideas sound, the Greek notion of reality and the Eastern philosophies of mind, nature and reality are very similar. In the future, I shall make a hybrid quiz on the Greek and Indian philosophies, tracing the similar lineages of these thoughts.

4. How is "logic" defined as according to Kant?

Answer: Logic is the subjective validation of the reproductive imagination and relational combinatorics, to describe and understand the "objective unity of apperception".

5. What does Kant refer to as 'intensive magnitudes' and 'extensive magnitudes'?

Answer: appearances

Intensive magnitudes represent the internal images of the sensations derived from the extensive maginitudes (exterior fields of appearaces). Schema, may be perdurable duration of the experienced field or the imagined field of images created in the viewer's eye. This abstract reality then can be manipulated in an abstract sense, deriving further a priori truths. Schema, dependent on ' time-series' and 'time-determinations' of events and objects, constitute the bulk sum of reality.

6. Experience is the function of perception. Perception is the function of time. What are the three modalities of Time?

Answer: succession & simultaneity & persistence

Time and space are invisible, we infer they exist a priori. But really, I wonder if time really exists?

7. Kant divides the categories of objects into mundus sensibilis and mundus intelligibis. What are these categories better known as?

Answer: noumena & phenomena

8. Kant realizes that reason has a negative utility, namely to govern itself from going beyond its limitations. Reason, then has only one practical use- what is its practical usage?

Answer: understanding

9. Questions of morality is tantamount to the function of reason.

Answer: true

10. The rational concept of the Being is built on "I think". What other philosopher made this concept so familiar?

Answer: Descartes

"I think" is the composite principle that makes transcendental conceptions and judgments available to us.

Source: Author thejazzkickazz

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