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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 is the statement "If you want to make a lot of money, you should go to college"?
(a) Hypothetical imperative.
(b) Categorical imperative.
(c) Moral imperative.
(d) Analytical imperative.

2. What is always overlaid with concepts, according to the reading?
(a) Subjectivity.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Normal perceptions.

3. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?
(a) The world.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Reason.
(d) The animal kingdom.

4. What shows that Kant's ideas are still relevant?
(a) Political theorists bring up Kant during speeches.
(b) Political theorists still adopt his ideas.
(c) America's government is based on Kant's ideas.
(d) European government was based on Kant's ideas.

5. 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?
(a) Kant.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Hume.
(d) Scruton.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kant, what does it mean to act in accordance with one's desires?

2. What is the problem with Descartes' certain knowledge?

3. What is the concept of humanity superimposed upon?

4. What did Kant say is a privileged place in perception?

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

(see the answer key)

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