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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. Which of the following describes a categorical imperative?
(a) Morally ambiguous.
(b) Completely unqualified.
(c) Substance rather than property.
(d) A "would" statement.

2. What did Kant say is a privileged place in perception?
(a) The future.
(b) The present.
(c) The past.
(d) Relativism.

3. How did Kant view acting in accordance with one's actions?
(a) It was unethical.
(b) It was bad.
(c) It was good.
(d) It was neutral.

4. What did Kant permit the government to engage in?
(a) Money laundering.
(b) Coercion.
(c) Capital punishment.
(d) Over-taxing.

5. How old was Kant when "Critique of Pure Reason" was published?
(a) 26.
(b) 57.
(c) 32.
(d) 45.

Short Answer Questions

1. What describes the second formulation of Kant's categorical imperative?

2. What are physic-theological arguments?

3. When Kant attempted to use the unity of apperception to prove facts about the world, who admitted that these arguments were not generally philosophically sound?

4. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?

5. Despite being dedicated to reason, which of the following described Kant?

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