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

2. How did Kant feel about monarchy?
(a) He did not trust monarchy.
(b) He did not like monarchy but accepted it as the freest form of government.
(c) He encouraged a monarch as a figurehead ,but with a parliament to back them.
(d) He thought that a monarchy was the strongest type of government.

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

4. Which of the following represented a difficulty for Kant because he wanted to classify it as practical reason?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Death.
(d) Logic.

5. What does "Critique of Judgment" influence?
(a) The study of aesthetics.
(b) The study of cosmology.
(c) The study of psychology.
(d) The study of theology.

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

7. 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.

8. Which of the following is true about aesthetic perception?
(a) Every beautiful object is a substance and not a property.
(b) Each individual perceives an aesthetic object differently.
(c) Every beautiful object has inherent objects.
(d) Each individual perceives beauty in the form of subjectivity.

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

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

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

12. What does aesthetics relate to?
(a) Logic and rationality.
(b) Beauty and image.
(c) Prose and the written word.
(d) The process of using reason.

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

14. What does Kant's ethical system sometimes defy?
(a) Common sense.
(b) The law.
(c) The Ten Commandments.
(d) His own sensibilities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kant believed that what was at the root of all morality?

2. Who was Kant most critical of when it came to voting rights?

3. How did Kant believe that humans see the world?

4. What did Kant believe the fundamental political right is?

5. What was the reason Kant's "Critique of Judgment" did not fail?

(see the answer keys)

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