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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Beauty and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which argument did Kant refuse to take as solid philosophical demonstration?
(a) The argument for design.
(b) Descartes' argument that God exists.
(c) Aristotle's ethical philosophies.
(d) Hypothetical imperatives.

2. What does every mistake share?
(a) Attempting to go beyond the boundaries of experience.
(b) Attempting to make the right decision.
(c) Attempting to use perspective.
(d) Attempting to use conditioned knowledge.

3. Which of the following statements about Kant is true?
(a) Kant believed the soul was a phenomenon.
(b) Kant believed the soul was a noumenon.
(c) Kant believed that proving the existence of a soul would prove the existence of God.
(d) Kant did not believe one could view one's own soul as an object.

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

5. What does the judgment of beauty require?
(a) Intermediate concepts.
(b) Deliberation.
(c) Background information.
(d) One's sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Leibniz argue could allow us to know almost everything about the world?

2. According to Hume, what can reason tell us about?

3. Which philosophers, besides Kant, studied aesthetics?

4. What are the first types of truths, according to Kant?

5. In an aesthetic situation that is not ideal, how does one judge?

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