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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. Which of the following was Kant a determined opponent of?
(a) Rationalism.
(b) Existence of self.
(c) Self-consciousness.
(d) Reality.

2. For Kant to have had any possibility of objective knowledge, what must have been true?
(a) Phenomena and substance must have been casually related.
(b) Phenomena and properties must have been casually related.
(c) Phenomena and noumena must have been casually related.
(d) Phenomena and noumena must have been closely related.

3. What are hypothetical imperatives?
(a) Statements that revolve around properties rather than substances.
(b) Statements that place a condition or quality imperative.
(c) Statements that are paradoxes.
(d) Statements that are unqualified.

4. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?
(a) Analytic truth.
(b) Rational truth.
(c) Synthetic truth.
(d) Real truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What describes the first formulation that Kant derived?

2. What question did Kant's subjective argument begin with?

3. What type of truth is one that is known before any experience?

4. According to Kant, what does identity imply?

5. According to Hume, what does all knowledge come through?

(see the answer key)

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