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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Enlightenment and Law.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Kant's basic political belief?
(a) One can do anything they would like as long as they are faithful to the church's orders.
(b) One can do anything they would like as long as they do not interfere with another's freedom.
(c) One can be creatively free but otherwise conservative.
(d) One can never do anything to harm the government or country's image.

2. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?
(a) How existence is possible.
(b) How the self can be conscious.
(c) How synthetic a priori knowledge is possible.
(d) How analytic a priori knowledge is possible.

3. What did Kant believe the fundamental political right is?
(a) Logic.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Morals.

4. What is cosmology?
(a) The study of people.
(b) The study of the soul.
(c) The study of the universe.
(d) The study of God.

5. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?
(a) Plato.
(b) Hume.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Kant influenced by Leibniz?

2. According to Kant, what is essential to the development of an ethical theory?

3. Before Kant could ground an ethical theory, what did he first have to resolve?

4. What are the statements "Fido is on the couch" and "Fido is not on the couch" examples of?

5. Whose philosophies did Kant revive in the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge?

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