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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .
| 1. |
For Kant the ------------------- is no mere criterion for aesthetics but it is a subject of metaphysical inquiry. |
| A. | judgment |
| B. | sublime |
| C. | pure reason |
| D. | art |
| Answer» B. sublime | |
| 2. |
According to Kant ------------------ is the ability to judge an object. |
| A. | taste |
| B. | sublime |
| C. | art |
| D. | reason |
| Answer» A. taste | |
| 3. |
Poetics is written by: |
| A. | plato |
| B. | kant |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | marx. |
| Answer» C. aristotle | |
| 4. |
The original meaning of the term aesthetics is : |
| A. | related to sense perception |
| B. | related to beauty |
| C. | related to nature |
| D. | related to nature and beauty |
| Answer» A. related to sense perception | |
| 5. |
Kant’s view of Aesthetic judgment is presented in his: |
| A. | critique of pure reason |
| B. | critique of practical reason |
| C. | critique of dialectic |
| D. | critique of judgment |
| Answer» D. critique of judgment | |
| 6. |
Aesthetics is defined as a philosophy of: |
| A. | art |
| B. | beauty and art |
| C. | art and reason |
| D. | beauty and reason |
| Answer» B. beauty and art | |
| 7. |
Who introduced the term aesthetics? |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | kant |
| C. | edmund bruke |
| D. | a. g. baumgarten |
| Answer» D. a. g. baumgarten | |
| 8. |
Identify the root term of Aesthetics. |
| A. | aesthetica |
| B. | aesthesia |
| C. | aesthesis |
| D. | aesthenes |
| Answer» C. aesthesis | |
| 9. |
Aesthesis means: |
| A. | anything connected with sense perception |
| B. | anything connected with beauty |
| C. | anything connected with beauty and perception. |
| D. | anything connected reason |
| Answer» A. anything connected with sense perception | |
| 10. |
Baumgarten calls the level of knowledge to the sense perception is: |
| A. | aestheesia |
| B. | aesthesis |
| C. | aesthetica |
| D. | aesthetis |
| Answer» C. aesthetica | |
| 11. |
The word ‘aesthetic’ is used by Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason for the level of knowledge obtained through: |
| A. | sense perception |
| B. | reason |
| C. | intuition |
| D. | reason and intuition |
| Answer» A. sense perception | |
| 12. |
Immanuel Kant devoted --------------------- ------------ for the analysis of beauty. |
| A. | critique of pure reason |
| B. | critique of practical reason |
| C. | critique of dialectic |
| D. | critique of judgment |
| Answer» D. critique of judgment | |
| 13. |
Hegel established an / a --------------------------- between beauty and art. |
| A. | intellectual |
| B. | spiritual |
| C. | organic |
| D. | intuitive |
| Answer» C. organic | |
| 14. |
according to Hegel beauty id the manifestation of : |
| A. | absolute perception |
| B. | absolute idea |
| C. | absolute experience |
| D. | absolute sensation |
| Answer» C. absolute experience | |
| 15. |
What is the norm of Aesthetics? |
| A. | truth |
| B. | goodness |
| C. | beauty |
| D. | art |
| Answer» C. beauty | |
| 16. |
Identify the dialogue in which Plato explained about the Absolute Beauty. |
| A. | symposium |
| B. | republic |
| C. | zeno |
| D. | crito |
| Answer» A. symposium | |
| 17. |
For Plato beauty exists only at ----------- level. |
| A. | empirical |
| B. | sensuous |
| C. | perceptual |
| D. | ideal |
| Answer» D. ideal | |
| 18. |
According to Plato beauty seen in nature is only a -------------- of the ideal beauty. |
| A. | fraction |
| B. | part |
| C. | shadow |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. shadow | |
| 19. |
Who thinks that art as the stepping stone to philosophy? |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | hegel |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» C. hegel | |
| 20. |
According to Kant beauty in mankind is always the expression of: |
| A. | emotion |
| B. | morality |
| C. | reason |
| D. | absolute |
| Answer» B. morality | |
| 21. |
Hegel defines aesthetics as the philosophy of: |
| A. | fine art |
| B. | art |
| C. | beauty |
| D. | nature |
| Answer» A. fine art | |
| 22. |
For Hegel beauty whether natural or artistic is the product of: |
| A. | experience |
| B. | nature |
| C. | absolute |
| D. | human mind |
| Answer» C. absolute | |
| 23. |
Which one is considered as the first stage of art according to Hegel? |
| A. | romantic art |
| B. | symbolic art |
| C. | classical art |
| D. | theological art |
| Answer» B. symbolic art | |
| 24. |
------------------- art found in pre-Hellenic antiquity. |
| A. | romantic art |
| B. | classical art |
| C. | theological art |
| D. | symbolic art |
| Answer» D. symbolic art | |
| 25. |
Which one is considered as the second developmental stage of art according to Hegel? |
| A. | symbolic art |
| B. | romantic art |
| C. | fine art |
| D. | classical art |
| Answer» D. classical art | |
| 26. |
----------------- art attains perfectly harmonious expression of universal human mind. |
| A. | symbolic |
| B. | classical |
| C. | fine |
| D. | romantic |
| Answer» B. classical | |
| 27. |
Hegel remarks -------------------- shows an advance to spirituality. |
| A. | symbolic art |
| B. | romantic art |
| C. | fine art |
| D. | classical art |
| Answer» B. romantic art | |
| 28. |
Identify the highest stage in the development art according to Hegel. |
| A. | symbolic art |
| B. | fine art |
| C. | romantic art |
| D. | classical art |
| Answer» C. romantic art | |
| 29. |
------------ is a depiction of Classical art. |
| A. | sculpture |
| B. | music |
| C. | poetry |
| D. | painting |
| Answer» A. sculpture | |
| 30. |
Hegel says that Symbolic art is most successful in: |
| A. | painting |
| B. | sculpture |
| C. | architecture |
| D. | poetry |
| Answer» C. architecture | |
| 31. |
Of the Romantic triard ---------------- is treated as the most spiritual by Hegel. |
| A. | painting |
| B. | music |
| C. | poetry |
| D. | sculpture |
| Answer» C. poetry | |
| 32. |
Hegel says --------------is the staring of art go beyond itself. |
| A. | symbolic art |
| B. | romantic art |
| C. | fine art |
| D. | classical art |
| Answer» B. romantic art | |
| 33. |
Hegel treated Romantic art as: |
| A. | dialectic |
| B. | thesis |
| C. | antithesis |
| D. | synthesis |
| Answer» D. synthesis | |
| 34. |
For Hegel ---------------------- considered as the thesis in the dialectical process of art. |
| A. | romantic art |
| B. | symbolic art |
| C. | classical art |
| D. | fine art |
| Answer» B. symbolic art | |
| 35. |
According to Hegel -------- is the antithesis in the dialectical process of art. |
| A. | classical art |
| B. | symbolic art |
| C. | romantic art |
| D. | fine art |
| Answer» A. classical art | |
| 36. |
Hegel says that -----------alone can express all that the mind conceives. |
| A. | sculpture |
| B. | music |
| C. | poetry |
| D. | painting |
| Answer» C. poetry | |
| 37. |
Hegel extended ----------------- method into his analysis of art. |
| A. | dialectical |
| B. | rational |
| C. | logical |
| D. | phenomenological |
| Answer» A. dialectical | |
| 38. |
According to Kant aesthetics arises from the faculty of: |
| A. | subjective judgment |
| B. | individual judgment |
| C. | disinterested judgment |
| D. | neither disinterested nor subjective judgment |
| Answer» C. disinterested judgment | |
| 39. |
Kant claims that aesthetic judgments has strong similarity to : |
| A. | spiritual judgments |
| B. | moral judgments |
| C. | a-priori judgments |
| D. | both spiritual |
| Answer» B. moral judgments | |
| 40. |
Identify the major divisions of Critique of Judgment. |
| A. | critique of aesthetic judgment and critique of teleological judgment |
| B. | critique of analytic and critique of aesthetic |
| C. | critique of a-priori judgment and critique of a-posteriori judgment |
| D. | critique of aesthetical judgment and critique of moral judgment |
| Answer» A. critique of aesthetic judgment and critique of teleological judgment | |
| 41. |
------------------- deals with Kant’s account of beauty. |
| A. | critique of pure reason |
| B. | critique of practical reason |
| C. | critique of aestheticjudgment |
| D. | critique of aesthetics |
| Answer» C. critique of aestheticjudgment | |
| 42. |
Who is the founder of formalism in aesthetics? |
| A. | hegel |
| B. | burke |
| C. | kant |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» C. kant | |
| 43. |
For Kant aesthetic judgments are: |
| A. | personal |
| B. | intuitive |
| C. | subjective |
| D. | disinterested |
| Answer» D. disinterested | |
| 44. |
Kant says aesthetic judgments behave: |
| A. | universally |
| B. | intuitively |
| C. | emotively |
| D. | emotively and intuitively |
| Answer» A. universally | |
| 45. |
Kant explains that the beautiful has to be understood as: |
| A. | useful |
| B. | purposive |
| C. | perfection |
| D. | either useful or perfection |
| Answer» B. purposive | |
| 46. |
Kant says that aesthetical judgment help us to reach ---------------- ideals. |
| A. | spiritual |
| B. | moral |
| C. | empirical |
| D. | logical |
| Answer» B. moral | |
| 47. |
Kant says -------- gives sensible forms to moral ideals. |
| A. | beauty |
| B. | taste |
| C. | sublime |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. beauty | |
| 48. |
What is common in aesthetic judgments and moral judgments according to Kant? |
| A. | purposiveness |
| B. | subjectivity |
| C. | universal validity |
| D. | practicability |
| Answer» C. universal validity | |
| 49. |
For Kant ------------------ is the symbol of morality. |
| A. | form |
| B. | acceptance |
| C. | sublime |
| D. | beauty |
| Answer» D. beauty | |
| 50. |
According to Hegel art is one mode of apprehending: |
| A. | god |
| B. | truth |
| C. | spirit |
| D. | sublime |
| Answer» B. truth | |
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