Quiz: Critique of Judgment

15 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. 1. What does Kant say he will do now that the critical undertaking is ended?

   Give up philosophy for the study of natural science Write a critique of history and of the progress of the human race Revise the Critique of Pure Reason once more for a third edition Proceed to the doctrinal part of his system
2. 2. When is judgement “reflective” rather than determinant?

   When both the particular and the universal come from experience When reason gives a moral law to the will When the universal is given and the particular is subsumed under it When only the particular is given and the universal must be found
3. 3. Which faculty does the Preface call the mediating link between Understanding and Reason?

   Imagination Sensibility Judgement Memory
4. 4. What does Kant call judgement’s giving a law to itself rather than to nature?

   Spontaneity Heteronomy Hypotyposis Heautonomy
5. 5. According to § 2, what alone pleased the Iroquois sachem in Paris?

   The cook-shops The opera The royal gardens The palaces
6. 6. Which art does Kant rank first among all the arts?

   Poetry Music Architecture Painting
7. 7. What example does Kant use to show that art, as skill, differs from knowledge?

   A bee building cells without a plan Camper could describe exactly how the best shoes must be made but could not make one A watchmaker who cannot explain the laws of motion Newton’s inability to write poetry
8. 8. Who, according to § 16, adorn a figure with spirals and regular lines?

   The Iroquois, by painting their faces The New Zealanders, by tattooing The Chinese, on their painted porcelain The ancient Greeks, on their vases
9. 9. How does Kant define laughter?

   A reaction to the sublime in nature The pleasure of recognising a truth The sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing A feeling of sudden glory and superiority over the person laughed at
10. 10. According to § 59, of what is the beautiful the symbol?

    The agreeable in sense Divine perfection The morally good The sublime
11. 11. Who, according to Kant, won “immortal honour” by developing the physico-teleological argument?

    Linnaeus Moses Mendelssohn Reimarus Blumenbach
12. 12. How does an intuitive understanding differ from ours?

    It can only think mechanically, never in terms of purposes It is the understanding of animals, guided by instinct It relies entirely on sense perception and has no concepts It does not proceed from the universal to the particular through concepts
13. 13. What did the Savoyard peasant reported by Saussure call lovers of snow-mountains?

    Heroes Philosophers Saints Fools
14. 14. What is the thesis of the antinomy of taste?

    Beauty is a property of objects in themselves The judgement of taste is not based on concepts, for otherwise it could be settled by proofs The judgement of taste is based on concepts, for otherwise we could not quarrel about it Every one has his own taste
15. 15. Whom does Kant name as an example of a righteous man persuaded that there is no God?

    Rousseau Spinoza Epicurus Reimarus