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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Fichte distinguish between?
(a) Phenomena and noumena.
(b) Monarchy and anarchy.
(c) Synthetic and analytic.
(d) Substance and property.

3. Which of the following is an unfortunate reality that Kant took into account?
(a) Most people do not want to vote.
(b) Most people are poor.
(c) Most people are not rational.
(d) Most people are unintelligent.

4. How did Kant feel about Fichte's idealism?
(a) He never gave an opinion about it.
(b) He was an explicit opponent.
(c) He was an explicit proponent.
(d) He subtly hinted he was a proponent.

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

6. In the ideal aesthetic case, what is one moved by?
(a) Raw sensory experience.
(b) Perception of a person.
(c) The properties of a substance.
(d) The inner-workings of a mechanism.

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

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

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

10. 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 not act in such a way that he would not want others acting.
(c) One should follow the religious Ten Commandments.
(d) One should never break the laws and mores of society.

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

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

13. How did Schopenhauer interpret Kant?
(a) Existential.
(b) Pessimist.
(c) Extravagant.
(d) Idealist.

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

15. What type of sense did Kant have when contemplating natural objects?
(a) Faithless.
(b) Transcendent.
(c) Aesthetic in absence.
(d) Failing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Critique of Judgment" influence?

2. Who identified the insatiable goal of almost all philosophers?

3. Which philosophers, besides Kant, studied aesthetics?

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

5. In an aesthetic situation that is not ideal, how does one judge?

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