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GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Question 36

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 1 mark · Multiple select

Who among the following thinker(s) viewed imagination as a faculty that unites what we receive through our senses with the concepts of our understanding?

  1. Plato
  2. Horace
  3. Immanuel Kant
  4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Correct answer: (C) Immanuel Kant

Explanation

For Kant the imagination synthesises sense intuitions under the concepts of the understanding. Coleridge's imagination is a creative, shaping power, a different view, and Plato and Horace do not hold this view.