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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of judgment is beauty?
(a) Deliberate.
(b) Reactionary.
(c) Substantiary.
(d) Immediate.

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

3. How did Kant view acting in accordance with one's actions?
(a) It was good.
(b) It was unethical.
(c) It was bad.
(d) It was neutral.

4. The example in the reading pertaining to perception is that one sees a person, not just their ____.
(a) Biological system.
(b) Attitude.
(c) Color.
(d) Clothing.

5. According to Kant, what should the government seek to do?
(a) Hide government doings from the content public.
(b) Seek to make the people as happy as possible.
(c) Maintain or increase amount of society's freedom.
(d) Reduce society's freedom.

6. What happened to Hegel's "attempts" each time his alleged building process occurred?
(a) Each step was painful.
(b) Failure.
(c) Each step was closer to the end of existence.
(d) Success.

7. What did Kant believe must be true for an action to be good?
(a) It must be consistent with one's inclinations.
(b) It must be contrary to one's inclinations.
(c) It must not contradict one's own values.
(d) It must be helpful to somebody else.

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

9. What does the judgment of beauty require?
(a) Background information.
(b) Deliberation.
(c) Intermediate concepts.
(d) One's sense.

10. For Kant, what was moral law based on the idea of?
(a) Hypothetical imperatives.
(b) Neutrality.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Autonomy.

11. Whose philosophies presaged existentialism in many ways?
(a) Schopenhauer.
(b) Fichte.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Hegel.

12. What best describes the arguments in Kant's "Critique of Judgment"?
(a) Impressive.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Weak.
(d) Illogical.

13. Which philosophers, besides Kant, studied aesthetics?
(a) Plato.
(b) Hume and Aristotle.
(c) Hume.
(d) Aristotle and Plato.

14. What describes the first formulation that Kant derived?
(a) One should treat others in a way that does not infringe upon their rights.
(b) One should follow the religious Ten Commandments.
(c) One should never break the laws and mores of society.
(d) One should not act in such a way that he would not want others acting.

15. Kant's "Critique of Judgment" is considered to be which of the following?
(a) Concise and clear.
(b) Disorganized and unclear.
(c) Strongly argued but disorganized.
(d) Concise and focused.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Kant relate his philosophical beliefs with his political beliefs?

2. According to Kant, how many people perceive the same aesthetic object the same way?

3. What did Schopenhauer take for granted from Kant's philosophy?

4. Which of the following is true about the idealism Fichte wanted to justify?

5. Following from Kant's view, what measures whether or not an action is good?

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