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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: The Categorical Imperative.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the problem with Descartes' certain knowledge?
(a) It assumes that breathing warrants thinking.
(b) It assumes the existence of a self.
(c) It assumes that humans think.
(d) It assumes that existence warrants thinking.

2. Which of the following did Hume deny?
(a) The existence of the world.
(b) The existence of logic.
(c) The existence of ethics.
(d) The existence of the self.

3. What question did Kant's subjective argument begin with?
(a) What are the prerequisites for experience?
(b) What are the self's prerequisites for existence?
(c) How can philosophers define existence?
(d) How can experience be defined?

4. What do phenomena represent?
(a) Rational beings.
(b) Self-consciousness.
(c) Real objects.
(d) Irrational beings.

5. According to Kant, what is essential to the development of an ethical theory?
(a) Existence of soul.
(b) Existence of God.
(c) Existence of phenomena.
(d) Existence of noumena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statement sums up Descartes' certain piece of knowledge?

2. According to Kant, what does it mean to act in accordance with one's desires?

3. Which type of argument about religion did Kant believe had little weight?

4. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?

5. Which of the following is true about the statement of "Fido has brown spots"?

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