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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who took the most extravagant interpretation of Kant?
(a) Schopenhauer.
(b) Fichte.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Plato.
2. Which of the following would Kant most agree with?
(a) Aesthetics are only objective when the judged item is a piece of art.
(b) Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder.
(c) Politics and aesthetics are heavily related.
(d) Aesthetics are objective and subjective.
3. What did Kant call it when one beholds an aesthetic object?
(a) Foul play.
(b) Subjective play.
(c) Free play.
(d) Objective play.
4. Kant's "Critique of Judgment" is considered to be which of the following?
(a) Disorganized and unclear.
(b) Concise and focused.
(c) Strongly argued but disorganized.
(d) Concise and clear.
5. How did Schopenhauer interpret Kant?
(a) Existential.
(b) Pessimist.
(c) Extravagant.
(d) Idealist.
6. What is the insatiable goal of almost all philosophers?
(a) To know what is unknowable.
(b) To confirm existence.
(c) To know everything.
(d) To know all real and rational beings.
7. What does Kant's ethical system sometimes defy?
(a) The law.
(b) The Ten Commandments.
(c) Common sense.
(d) His own sensibilities.
8. According to Hegel, how did his subject of study build?
(a) Through self-improvement.
(b) Through self-existence.
(c) Through self-destruction.
(d) Through self-consciousness.
9. What happened to Hegel's "attempts" each time his alleged building process occurred?
(a) Failure.
(b) Each step was closer to the end of existence.
(c) Each step was painful.
(d) Success.
10. What did Kant consider to be the basis for moral dignity?
(a) Logical autonomy.
(b) Rational autonomy.
(c) Synthetic autonomy.
(d) Unreasonable autonomy.
11. What did Kant refer to in order to solve the problem buried below ethical theory?
(a) Hypothetical imperative.
(b) Transcendental philosophy.
(c) Universal law of causality.
(d) Categorical imperative.
12. What type of government did Kant favor?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Republicanism.
(c) Dictatorship.
(d) Anarchy.
13. What type of sense did Kant have when contemplating natural objects?
(a) Aesthetic in absence.
(b) Faithless.
(c) Transcendent.
(d) Failing.
14. What does aesthetics relate to?
(a) The process of using reason.
(b) Logic and rationality.
(c) Beauty and image.
(d) Prose and the written word.
15. How do Schopenhauer and Fichte compare?
(a) Both wanted to justify their own idealism.
(b) Both distinguished between phenomena and noumena.
(c) Both interpreted Kant the same way.
(d) Both improved upon Kant's philosophy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Kant want to require of each law?
2. Why didn't Kant advocate democracy?
3. What best describes the arguments in Kant's "Critique of Judgment"?
4. What describes the first formulation that Kant derived?
5. From which critique did Kant's fundamental political right come from?
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