Kant: A Very Short Introduction Test | Final Test - Easy

Roger Scruton
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When judging beauty, what does the mind apply?
(a) Substance.
(b) Concepts.
(c) Subjects.
(d) Properties.

2. What is the insatiable goal of almost all philosophers?
(a) To confirm existence.
(b) To know all real and rational beings.
(c) To know everything.
(d) To know what is unknowable.

3. What distinguishes a person from the rest of existence?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Self-consciousness.
(c) Contradictions.
(d) Rational will.

4. Which of the following would Kant agree with?
(a) Women and men are equal.
(b) Each person has the right to determine their political leader.
(c) Monarchy is a fundamental right of the political system.
(d) Freedom is a significant part of being a human being.

5. Which of the following describes why Kant saw beauty as objective?
(a) The judgments are not of substances, but merely of properties.
(b) The judgments are of works of art.
(c) The judgments are all false, as aesthetics do not truly exist.
(d) The judgments are correct appraisals of a unique interpretation.

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

7. What did Kant call it when one beholds an aesthetic object?
(a) Subjective play.
(b) Objective play.
(c) Free play.
(d) Foul play.

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

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

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

11. What is "You should not steal" an example of?
(a) A hypothetical imperative.
(b) A categorical imperative.
(c) A moral imperative.
(d) A formulation.

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

13. What was Kant's key to law?
(a) Agreement of his contemporaries.
(b) Consent of the people.
(c) Ensuring the safety of the people.
(d) Advocacy of all submitting to the law.

14. How do Schopenhauer and Fichte compare?
(a) Both improved upon Kant's philosophy.
(b) Both wanted to justify their own idealism.
(c) Both distinguished between phenomena and noumena.
(d) Both interpreted Kant the same way.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Kant advocate democracy?

2. Which of the following represented a difficulty for Kant because he wanted to classify it as practical reason?

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

4. Kant's "Critique of Judgment" is considered to be which of the following?

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

(see the answer keys)

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