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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hegel want to determine builds?
(a) Logic.
(b) Personality.
(c) Reason.
(d) Aesthetics.

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

3. What type of government did Kant favor?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Republicanism.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Dictatorship.

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

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

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

7. According to Hegel, what does reason want to reach?
(a) The world.
(b) Human brains.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Humanity.

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

9. According to Kant, how many people perceive the same aesthetic object the same way?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Nobody.
(c) One person and God.
(d) One pair.

10. Which of the following did Kant approach in a curious way?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Logic.
(d) Laws.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The example in the reading pertaining to perception is that one sees a person, not just their ____.

2. How did Kant feel about Fichte's idealism?

3. What does "Critique of Judgment" influence?

4. What describes the third formulation of Kant's categorical imperative?

5. Which philosophers, besides Kant, studied aesthetics?

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