Kant: A Very Short Introduction Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Roger Scruton
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Roger Scruton
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can one assume if they consider the universe in its totality?
(a) The universe has selves and it does not.
(b) The universe phenomena and noumena.
(c) The universe has contradictions.
(d) The universe had a beginning in time and that it did not.

2. What are the statements "Fido is on the couch" and "Fido is not on the couch" examples of?
(a) Substance.
(b) Antinomy.
(c) Property.
(d) Cosmology.

3. What are the first types of truths, according to Kant?
(a) Rational and irrational.
(b) False and accurate.
(c) Real and unreal.
(d) Analytic and synthetic.

4. Whose philosophies did Kant revive in the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Hume.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Plato.

5. What are physic-theological arguments?
(a) Cosmological arguments.
(b) Arguments against the existence of God.
(c) Ontological arguments.
(d) Arguments from design.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is theology?

2. Unlike Descartes, what was Kant unwilling to draw the conclusion that he was?

3. According to the ontological argument, why does God exist?

4. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?

5. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Leibniz's argument about reason?

2. What did Hume argue about reason?

3. Describe the ontological religious argument.

4. Why did the second version of "Critique of Pure Reason" fail?

5. What is the difference between a substance and a property? Give an example of each.

6. Describe Kant's published life.

7. Describe "Critique of Practical Reason" and "Critique of Judgment".

8. Describe Kant's categories of metaphysics.

9. What distinctions did Kant set forth to classify truths?

10. Describe Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics.

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