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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was one of the last topics Kant addressed before his death?
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Logic.
(c) Politics.
(d) Ethics.

5. Which of the following would Kant most agree with?
(a) Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder.
(b) Aesthetics are only objective when the judged item is a piece of art.
(c) Aesthetics are objective and subjective.
(d) Politics and aesthetics are heavily related.

6. What are hypothetical imperatives?
(a) Statements that revolve around properties rather than substances.
(b) Statements that are unqualified.
(c) Statements that place a condition or quality imperative.
(d) Statements that are paradoxes.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What describes the third formulation of Kant's categorical imperative?
(a) One should obey the law.
(b) One should act as if his actions were legislating a law.
(c) One should treat others with respect.
(d) One should treat others as they wish to be treated.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kant consider to be the basis for moral dignity?

2. What elements are essential for aesthetic judgment?

3. How does "Critique of Judgment" differ from "Critique of Pure Reason"?

4. Which of the following would Kant agree with?

5. What type of sense did Kant have when contemplating natural objects?

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