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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kant, what does it mean to act in accordance with one's desires?
(a) Surrender of sovereignty.
(b) Neutrality.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Freedom paradox.

2. Who identified the insatiable goal of almost all philosophers?
(a) Kant.
(b) Hume.
(c) Fichte.
(d) Hegel.

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

4. What are imperative statements?
(a) "Could" statements.
(b) "Would" statements.
(c) "Should" statements.
(d) "Will" statements.

5. What does "Critique of Judgment" influence?
(a) The study of cosmology.
(b) The study of psychology.
(c) The study of aesthetics.
(d) The study of theology.

6. How did Kant believe that humans see the world?
(a) As a spectrum of experiences.
(b) As an imperative statement.
(c) As a field of action.
(d) As a series of insignificant actions.

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

8. To Kant, what was being free?
(a) Being able to have ideas.
(b) Being able to obey one's reason.
(c) Being able to assess the self.
(d) Being able to understand paradox.

9. Which critique does the reading mention that Hegel read?
(a) Judgment.
(b) Practical reason.
(c) Politics.
(d) Pure reason.

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

11. Kant believed that what was at the root of all morality?
(a) A 'will' statement.
(b) A 'could' statement.
(c) A single hypothetical imperative.
(d) A single categorical imperative.

12. What did Kant permit the government to engage in?
(a) Capital punishment.
(b) Coercion.
(c) Over-taxing.
(d) Money laundering.

13. What did Schopenhauer take for granted from Kant's philosophy?
(a) Lack of proof of existence of noumena.
(b) Unreality of perception.
(c) Proof of the soul's existence.
(d) Argument from design.

14. What is the concept of humanity superimposed upon?
(a) One's perceptions.
(b) One's intelligence.
(c) One's motives.
(d) One's ethics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Kant approach in a curious way?

2. What describes the second formulation of Kant's categorical imperative?

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

4. What did Fichte distinguish between?

5. How did Kant feel about monarchy?

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