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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Following from Kant's view, what measures whether or not an action is good?
(a) Difficulty.
(b) Religion.
(c) Passion behind the decision.
(d) Law-abiding.

2. Who was Kant most critical of when it came to voting rights?
(a) Poor men.
(b) Old men.
(c) Women.
(d) Young men.

3. What describes the second formulation of Kant's categorical imperative?
(a) One cannot use others to fulfill goals with no respect for the fact that they have their own goals.
(b) One must have faith to be moral.
(c) One must love one's neighbors.
(d) One cannot treat others disrespectfully.

4. According to Hegel, how did his subject of study build?
(a) Through self-consciousness.
(b) Through self-destruction.
(c) Through self-existence.
(d) Through self-improvement.

5. Which of the following describes a categorical imperative?
(a) Morally ambiguous.
(b) Completely unqualified.
(c) Substance rather than property.
(d) A "would" statement.

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

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

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

9. What did Kant refer to in order to solve the problem buried below ethical theory?
(a) Universal law of causality.
(b) Hypothetical imperative.
(c) Transcendental philosophy.
(d) Categorical imperative.

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

11. 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.

12. What was Kant's basic political belief?
(a) One can do anything they would like as long as they are faithful to the church's orders.
(b) One can be creatively free but otherwise conservative.
(c) One can do anything they would like as long as they do not interfere with another's freedom.
(d) One can never do anything to harm the government or country's image.

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

14. Which of the following is true about subjectivity?
(a) Beauty can never be subjective.
(b) Subjectivity is not total when it comes to beauty.
(c) Subjectivity is only applied to properties.
(d) Something that is subjective can never be objective.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose philosophies presaged existentialism in many ways?

2. What type of judgment is beauty?

3. According to Kant, what should the government seek to do?

4. Which of the following would Kant agree with?

5. What did Fichte distinguish between?

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