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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Transcendental Philosophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does noumena serve a negative role in Kant's philosophy?
(a) Noumena are generally negative objects.
(b) It is logically impossible to know what role noumena play in phenomena.
(c) Kant's system does not acknowledge the existence of noumena.
(d) It is logically impossible to know what a thing is in itself.

2. Who took the most extravagant interpretation of Kant?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Schopenhauer.
(c) Plato.
(d) Fichte.

3. Whose theories greatly influenced Kant's metaphysical system?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Montesquieu.
(d) Isaac Newton.

4. Which of the following is true about the idealism Fichte wanted to justify?
(a) It was based on Plato's work.
(b) It was radical.
(c) It was based on Descartes' work.
(d) It was classical.

5. What did "Critique of Judgment" deal with?
(a) Logic.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Aesthetics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of judgment is beauty?

2. What did Kant refer to in order to solve the problem buried below ethical theory?

3. What did Kant compare the knowledge of a soul to?

4. What is the second quality of Fichte's idealism?

5. Which of the following statements about Kant is true?

(see the answer key)

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