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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. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?
(a) Empirical evidence.
(b) Infallible belief.
(c) Inferential evidence.
(d) Reason.

2. Before Kant could ground an ethical theory, what did he first have to resolve?
(a) Hypothetical imperatives.
(b) Neutrality.
(c) Paradox freedom.
(d) Categorical imperatives.

3. What are physic-theological arguments?
(a) Ontological arguments.
(b) Arguments against the existence of God.
(c) Cosmological arguments.
(d) Arguments from design.

4. What did Kant study throughout his early academic career?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Math.
(c) Geography.
(d) A variety of disciplines.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described by something whose existence is not dependent upon anything else?

2. What did Kant call it when one beholds an aesthetic object?

3. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?

4. What does Kant's ethical system sometimes defy?

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

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