Kant, Hegel, Marx...

1. What was the stance of Romanticism, which emphasized feeling and imagination, towards rationalism and empiricism?

2. Which romantic/nationalist thinker saw Germany as a "Volk" with a common cultural heritage? What did Goethe's "Faust" sell his soul for?

3. Immanuel Kant proposed a synthesis of what, involving what kind of knowledge? Who "awakened him from his dogmatic slumbers"?

4. Appearance and reality correspond to what "worlds"? Which did Kant say was knowable?

5. What did Kant find awesome? How did he answer ethical questions? 

6. Who said architecture is frozen music? Who loved dogs and introduced Kant to the French?

7.Who said "the real is the rational & the rational is real," denied the existence of unknowable things in themselves, and said everything is related?

8. What historical process did Hegel claim connects spirit, nature, and mind? When does it end? 

9. What's another term for "Time-Spirit"? What is history? What's the source of Reality?

10. What German political philosopher was heavily influenced by Hegel, adapting his dialectical method? Which one rejected everything Hegel had to say?

11. What blind, irrational force did Schopenhauer say is the "thing-in-itself" and the source of evil? How did he think wisdom could be achieved?

12. Which Christian philosopher criticized the idea of trying to capture all of objective reality while allowing the real, existing individual to "slip through the holes of the dialectical net," contending instead that truth is subjective? (Hint": he was called "The Melancholy Dane" and the grandfather of existentialism. He urged a "leap of faith.")

13. Which German philosopher anticipated Marx and "brought Hegel down to earth"? 

14. What is Marx's third stage of consciousness, and fifth epoch? What characterizes the fourth epoch? Did he agree that free competition creates free individuals?