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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What describes the second formulation of Kant's categorical imperative?
(a) One must have faith to be moral.
(b) One cannot use others to fulfill goals with no respect for the fact that they have their own goals.
(c) One cannot treat others disrespectfully.
(d) One must love one's neighbors.

2. What does the paradox freedom highlight a contradiction between?
(a) Sense of freedom and universal law of causality.
(b) Hypothetical imperatives and categorical imperatives.
(c) Universal law of causality and categorical imperatives.
(d) Transcendental philosophy and universal philosophy.

3. What does "Critique of Judgment" influence?
(a) The study of psychology.
(b) The study of theology.
(c) The study of aesthetics.
(d) The study of cosmology.

4. What distinguishes a person from the rest of existence?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Self-consciousness.
(c) Rational will.
(d) Contradictions.

5. According to Hegel, what does reason want to reach?
(a) The world.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Human brains.
(d) Humanity.

6. During what historical period was Kant considered well-known and influential?
(a) European Enlightenment.
(b) European Crusades.
(c) American settlement.
(d) European Wars.

7. What did Kant permit the government to engage in?
(a) Over-taxing.
(b) Money laundering.
(c) Capital punishment.
(d) Coercion.

8. What did Schopenhauer take for granted from Kant's philosophy?
(a) Argument from design.
(b) Proof of the soul's existence.
(c) Lack of proof of existence of noumena.
(d) Unreality of perception.

9. The example in the reading pertaining to perception is that one sees a person, not just their ____.
(a) Attitude.
(b) Biological system.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Color.

10. How did Kant view acting in accordance with one's actions?
(a) It was bad.
(b) It was good.
(c) It was unethical.
(d) It was neutral.

11. For Kant, what was moral law based on the idea of?
(a) Autonomy.
(b) Hypothetical imperatives.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Neutrality.

12. What did Hegel want to determine builds?
(a) Personality.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Reason.
(d) Logic.

13. What elements are essential for aesthetic judgment?
(a) Objectivity and substance.
(b) Substance and property.
(c) Substance and property.
(d) Subjectivity and objectivity.

14. Before Kant could ground an ethical theory, what did he first have to resolve?
(a) Hypothetical imperatives.
(b) Categorical imperatives.
(c) Paradox freedom.
(d) Neutrality.

15. What is the insatiable goal of almost all philosophers?
(a) To know what is unknowable.
(b) To know all real and rational beings.
(c) To know everything.
(d) To confirm existence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shows that Kant's ideas are still relevant?

2. How did Kant feel about monarchy?

3. Kant believed that what was at the root of all morality?

4. How does "Critique of Judgment" differ from "Critique of Pure Reason"?

5. Which of the following did Kant approach in a curious way?

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