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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 did Kant want to require of each law?
(a) Each person "should" approve of it.
(b) Each person "could" approve of it.
(c) Each person "will" approve of it.
(d) Each person "would" approve of it.

2. Which philosopher did Kant begin his arguments similar to?
(a) Hume.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Plato.
(d) Leibniz.

3. How did Kant feel about monarchy?
(a) He thought that a monarchy was the strongest type of government.
(b) He encouraged a monarch as a figurehead ,but with a parliament to back them.
(c) He did not like monarchy but accepted it as the freest form of government.
(d) He did not trust monarchy.

4. What did Kant consider to be the basis for moral dignity?
(a) Synthetic autonomy.
(b) Logical autonomy.
(c) Rational autonomy.
(d) Unreasonable autonomy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a result of "Critique of Reason" being difficult to read?

2. What is always overlaid with concepts, according to the reading?

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

4. How old was Kant when "Critique of Pure Reason" was published?

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

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