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

2. According to Kant, what does it mean to act in accordance with one's desires?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Freedom paradox.
(c) Surrender of sovereignty.
(d) Neutrality.

3. What is described by something whose existence is not dependent upon anything else?
(a) Self.
(b) Substance.
(c) World.
(d) Properties.

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

5. Kant believed that what was at the root of all morality?
(a) A 'will' statement.
(b) A 'could' statement.
(c) A single categorical imperative.
(d) A single hypothetical imperative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the philosopher who wrote Meditations?

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

3. When was "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" published?

4. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?

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

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