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Question 1
Which of the following is not a German Romantic Kierkegaard associates with modern irony?
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Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
Ludwig Tieck
Andreas Frederik Beck
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Friedrich von Schlegel
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Question 2
Which of the following does not describe Kierkegaard's ironist?
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He pictures the future clearly.
He is alienated.
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He is alienated.
He perceives the present crisis.
He finds that actuality lacks validity for him.
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Question 3
While appreciating aspects of Hegel’s view of Socratic irony, where does Kierkegaard
fundamentally disagree?
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There is no fundamental disagreement - they both say the
same thing in different ways.
Hegel sees only negativity in Socrates’ use of irony while
Kierkegaard sees something positive.
Hegel sees nuances between Socratic and Romantic irony
while Kierkegaard sees them as fundamentally the same thing.
Hegel criticizes Socrates for stopping with the negative and
not constructing something positive, while Kierkegaard
regards this as what makes Socrates so important.
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Question 4
Why did leading Romantic figures find the Enlightenment abstract and sterile?
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The Enlightenment was a movement led by an intellectual
elite in their ivory towers.
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The Enlightenment criticized different forms of religion.
The Enlightenment focused on political concerns rather
than personal concerns.
The Enlightenment’s focus on the faculty of reason entails
that there is nothing special about the individual.
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Question 5
Why does Kierkegaard think the pious religious person and the ironist are similar figures?
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Both try to undermine the traditions and conventions of
society.
Both are separated from mainstream society and the daily
life of the world.
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Both use literary strategies.
Both criticize some aspects of society but keep the rest.
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Question 6
What did Johan Ludvig Heiberg stress in On the Significance of Philosophy for the Present Age?
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The falsity of Kierkegaard’s concept of irony.
The necessity for the 19th century to find a solution for
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relativism.
The falsity of Hegel’s philosophy of spirit.
The necessity for the 19th century to practice eminent
irony.
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Question 7
According to the Romantics, the true self only emerges through...
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sweeping away outdated superstitions.
attention to individual feelings and emotions.
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forgetting the individual and focusing on the universal.
attention to the universal faculty of reason.
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Question 8
What does Kierkegaard describe as “irony in the eminent sense”?
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Participating in bourgeois society while remaining critical of
it.
Criticizing or negating an entire culture or way of life.
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Attaining subjective freedom rather than acting according
to tradition.
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Being ironic about specific aspects of one’s society or
culture.
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Question 9
What is the point of irony for Kierkegaard?
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To develop objective answers
To develop subjective freedom
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To develop world historical figures
To develop rational society
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Question 10
For Kierkegaard’s study of irony, he needs both:
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concepts and ideas.
concepts and universals.
history and empirical data.
particularity and universality.
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