Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant's approach to philosophy was transcendental idealism. Idealism means that which is constructed or formed in the mind. Transcendental thinking best relates to which phrase below?

• immaterial

• out of this world

• beyond human understanding

• superhuman

• all of these answers

Kant believed there were two worlds; our bodies and this other world.

• internal

• external

• beastly

• evil

• unfair

According to Kant, in order for something to exist it must be:

• determinable in height

• determinable in pounds

• determinable in time

• determinable in stature

• determinable in beauty

Kant argues that time is only ever experienced by us indirectly (166). His reason for stating this is:

• we can only experience time in our dreams

• we can only experience time through things in the world that do not move or change

• we can only experience time through numbers on a clock face

• we can only experience time through things in the world that move or change, like a clock or our age

Why the word "now" impossible to use when trying to directly describe one's current consciousness, that is, what one is thinking about at this exact moment? (166)

• our minds do not exist

• our minds are not attached to our body

• our thoughts are always changing from one moment to the next

• our thoughts stay the same every single second and never change

• none of the above

If you are an empiricist you are someone who believes knowledge comes to us through:

• only textbooks

• only our consciousness

• only our minds

• our experiences of the world

Kant termed the phrased a "thing-in-itself" to refer to what?

• something considered interior to our minds

• something considered exterior to our minds

• something considered inside of our minds

• something considered outside of ourselves

• a dream within a dream

According to Kant, space and time cannot be learned about through experience because...

• they are not related to each other

• they are intuitions of the mind

• they are important

• they are material objects

There are two worlds: the world of experience sensed by our bodies (physically) AND the world "as it is in itself" which best translates to...

• our minds and our environment know and understand each other

• our environment is in sync with our our thoughts, feelings and senses

• we have our own thoughts, our own feelings and senses that no one or nothing external to our physical self is directly attached/connected to

• none of the above

Sensibility and understanding are one and the same.

• TRUE

• FALSE