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

2. What was Kant's key to law?
(a) Agreement of his contemporaries.
(b) Ensuring the safety of the people.
(c) Consent of the people.
(d) Advocacy of all submitting to the law.

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

4. What did the "transcendental unity of apperception" begin?
(a) The study of substance versus properties.
(b) Kant's objective argument.
(c) The study of subjectivity.
(d) The understanding of "categories of thought".

5. Which of the following best describes Kant's categories of thought?
(a) Modes of understanding.
(b) Perceptions of existence.
(c) Qualities of perception.
(d) Categories of self-consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?

2. For Kant, what was moral law based on the idea of?

3. According to Kant, why was he reserved?

4. What does the paradox freedom highlight a contradiction between?

5. What was the reason Kant's "Critique of Judgment" did not fail?

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