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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 was a result of "Critique of Reason" being difficult to read?
(a) Kant released a supplemental work.
(b) Kant became angry and insulted his readers.
(c) Kant had another philosopher translate it.
(d) Kant translated and re-released his work.

2. When beginning an argument, what did Kant appeal to?
(a) The most extraordinary facts.
(b) The most basic facts.
(c) The most basic sense of integrity.
(d) The sense of intelligence.

3. Who did Kant borrow the term 'apperception' from?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Hume.
(d) Leibniz.

4. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?
(a) Infallible belief.
(b) Reason.
(c) Inferential evidence.
(d) Empirical evidence.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is described by something whose existence is not dependent upon anything else?

3. Following from Kant's view, what measures whether or not an action is good?

4. Where was David Hume from?

5. Why did Kant say that empirically, humans are not free?

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