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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose philosophies did Kant revive in the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Hume.

2. What does every mistake share?
(a) Attempting to use perspective.
(b) Attempting to go beyond the boundaries of experience.
(c) Attempting to make the right decision.
(d) Attempting to use conditioned knowledge.

3. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1783.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1780.

4. In what year was Kant born?
(a) 1767.
(b) 1724.
(c) 1712.
(d) 1820.

5. How old was Kant when "Critique of Pure Reason" was published?
(a) 26.
(b) 45.
(c) 32.
(d) 57.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is theology?

2. What did Kant's objective argument concern?

3. What did "Critique of Judgment" deal with?

4. According to Kant, what is essential to the development of an ethical theory?

5. Unlike Descartes, what was Kant unwilling to draw the conclusion that he was?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe "Critique of Practical Reason" and "Critique of Judgment".

2. Describe Kant's career as a professor.

3. Why is Descartes' "certain knowledge" a problem?

4. Describe Kant's view of religious arguments.

5. Describe phenomena and noumena.

6. What is the difference between a substance and a property? Give an example of each.

7. Describe the purpose of Kant's subjective argument.

8. What distinctions did Kant set forth to classify truths?

9. Describe Kant's time in school.

10. What does the following statement mean? Existence is not a predicate of perfection.

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