Trocchia JMU
Immanent Knowledge - ✔️✔️- Knowledge about phenomena
- Knowledge of appearances
** Carpenter, professional career person would have knowledge about this - not a
philosopher
Transcendental Knowledge - ✔️✔️- Knowledge about things in themselves (** Kant
Doesn't Believe this)
- Knowledge of the conditions that make appearances/ phenomena possible at all.
True View (Schopenhauer)
A) Phenomena includes your body/brain
B) Body is experienced within the form of time, space, and is subject to causality
C) Kant also believes in this
D) A and B - ✔️✔️D) A and B
According to Schopenhauer, time and space________.
According to Schopenhauer, from the subjective standpoint_________ is the soul form
of reality and has its source in us.
A) Fate
B) God
C) The Eternal Present
D) Love - ✔️✔️C) The Eternal Present
Schopenhauer calls knowledge about phenomena (i.e., from within
appearances)______
A) Ignorant knowledge
B) Apparent knowledge
C) Immanent knowledge
D) Transcendental knowledge - ✔️✔️C) Immanent knowledge
Given class discussion, if we claim to have knowledge of who indeed won the particular
chess match yesterday evening between Schopenhauer and yours truly, we might say
that we have _______ of the match.
A) Immanent knowledge
B) Illicit knowledge
C) Complete knowledge
D) Transcendental knowledge - ✔️✔️A) Immanent knowledge
As discussed in class, for Schopenhauer we do have an immediate awreness of our
intrinsic being as it is _________ but not through our intellect/cognition.
, a) Communicated directly to us through the Word of God
b) Imagined and lived through according to the very myths upon which civilizations was
founded.
c) being itself inside a being that has not been itself lately
d) felt to us through our own willing - ✔️✔️d) felt to us through our own willing
For Arthur Schopenhauer we are all manifestations of ________, a single
undifferentiated reality, which is not subject to time or space and is, at best, described
as the blind urging or force behind every aspect of our physical, mental, and emotional
lives.
a) beauty
b) God
c) will
d) greed - ✔️✔️c) will
According to Schopenhauer, like discerning the movement of a ship when seen against
the land, the fleeting and frail nature of life is only apparent when set against_______
a) the endlessness of sky
b) the immobility of our inner being
c) the finality of death
d) the dark of night - ✔️✔️b) the immobility of our inner being
A) Mythical lovers, inseparable from each other always and forever.
B) Like love and fear, for time is short-lived like our love while space is widespread like
our fear.
C) Phenomena
D) Formal conditions necessary for any cognition of phenomenon - ✔️✔️D) Formal
conditions necessary for any cognition of phenomenon
Schopenauer says that while "death may be able to end our life, it cannot end our
existence," by which he means that.....
A) Experiencing the death of a loved one may cause an individual to lose his/her
purpose in life - doesn't mean their purpose doesnt exist.
B) The individual as such will no longer exist but the will itself, which is ones intrinsic
being, continues to exist.
C) The individual's body will no longer exist but one's individual soul will live on in the
afterlife.
D) Death and life are two sides of the same coin which is flipped at each moment of
your existence. - ✔️✔️B) The individual as such will no longer exist but the will itself,
which is ones intrinsic being, continues to exist.
Given class discussion, if we claim to have knowledge of the conditions that make the
game of chess possible, we might say that we have______ of chess.
a) immanent knowledge
b) illicit knowledge