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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?

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

3. What did the "transcendental unity of apperception" begin?

4. What type of truth is "Fido has brown spots"?

5. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Kant's time in school.

2. According to Hume, what is needed to believe or understand something?

3. Why do you think Kant wanted to believe in the existence of the soul from a philosophical standpoint?

4. What was Leibniz's argument about reason?

5. What are antinomies?

6. Describe phenomena and noumena.

7. Why was Kant considered to be eccentric?

8. What does the following statement mean? Existence is not a predicate of perfection.

9. Why did Kant believe the present was the most privileged time period?

10. What was the effect of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What type of influence did Kant have on Fichte? Why would Kant be opposed to his views?

Essay Topic 2

How did Descartes and the problem of objective knowledge influence Kant?

Essay Topic 3

What type of influence did Kant have on Hegel? Why is his interpretation the most extravagant of those presented?

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