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This set of Western Aesthetics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Western Aesthetics Set 1
Q1 | For Kant the ------------------- is no mere criterion for aesthetics but it is a subject ofmetaphysical inquiry.
- judgment
- sublime
- pure reason
- art
Q2 | According to Kant ------------------ is the ability to judge anobject.
- taste
- sublime
- art
- reason
Q3 | Poetics is written by:
- plato
- kant
- aristotle
- marx.
Q4 | The original meaning of the term aesthetics is :
- related to sense perception
- related to beauty
- related to nature
- related to nature and beauty
Q5 | Kant’s view of Aesthetic judgment is presented in his:
- critique of pure reason
- critique of practical reason
- critique of dialectic
- critique of judgment
Q6 | Aesthetics is defined as a philosophy of:
- art
- beauty and art
- art and reason
- beauty and reason
Q7 | Who introduced the term aesthetics?
- aristotle
- kant
- edmund bruke
- a. g. baumgarten
Q8 | Identify the root term of Aesthetics.
- aesthetica
- aesthesia
- aesthesis
- aesthenes
Q9 | Aesthesis means:
- anything connected with sense perception
- anything connected with beauty
- anything connected with beauty and perception.
- anything connected reason
Q10 | Baumgarten calls the level of knowledge to the sense perception is:
- aestheesia
- aesthesis
- aesthetica
- aesthetis
Q11 | The word ‘aesthetic’ is used by Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason for the level ofknowledge obtained through:
- sense perception
- reason
- intuition
- reason and intuition
Q12 | Immanuel Kant devoted --------------------- ------------ for the analysis of beauty.
- critique of pure reason
- critique of practical reason
- critique of dialectic
- critique of judgment
Q13 | Hegel established an / a --------------------------- between beauty and art.
- intellectual
- spiritual
- organic
- intuitive
Q14 | 15. according to Hegel beauty id the manifestation of :
- absolute perception
- absolute idea
- absolute experience
- absolute sensation
Q15 | What is the norm of Aesthetics?
- truth
- goodness
- beauty
- art
Q16 | Identify the dialogue in which Plato explained about the Absolute Beauty.
- symposium
- republic
- zeno
- crito
Q17 | For Plato beauty exists only at ----------- level.
- empirical
- sensuous
- perceptual
- ideal
Q18 | According to Plato beauty seen in nature is only a -------------- of the ideal beauty.
- fraction
- part
- shadow
- none of these
Q19 | Who thinks that art as the stepping stone to philosophy?
- plato
- aristotle
- hegel
- kant
Q20 | According to Kant beauty in mankind is always the expression of:
- emotion
- morality
- reason
- absolute
Q21 | Hegel defines aesthetics as the philosophy of:
- fine art
- art
- beauty
- nature
Q22 | For Hegel beauty whether natural or artistic is the product of:
- experience
- nature
- absolute
- human mind
Q23 | Which one is considered as the first stage of art according to Hegel?
- romantic art
- symbolic art
- classical art
- theological art
Q24 | ------------------- art found in pre-Hellenic antiquity.
- romantic art
- classical art
- theological art
- symbolic art
Q25 | Which one is considered as the second developmental stage of art according to Hegel?
- symbolic art
- romantic art
- fine art
- classical art