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

2. What are imperative statements?
(a) "Could" statements.
(b) "Would" statements.
(c) "Will" statements.
(d) "Should" statements.

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

4. What did Kant call it when one beholds an aesthetic object?
(a) Objective play.
(b) Free play.
(c) Foul play.
(d) Subjective play.

5. How did Schopenhauer interpret Kant?
(a) Pessimist.
(b) Idealist.
(c) Existential.
(d) Extravagant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which critique does the reading mention that Hegel read?

2. According to Kant, what does it mean to act in accordance with one's desires?

3. What is the concept of humanity superimposed upon?

4. What did Kant permit the government to engage in?

5. What describes the first formulation that Kant derived?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the quality of the arguments in Kant's "Critique of Judgment."

2. Describe Schopenhauer's interpretation of Kant's philosophies.

3. Describe Kant's categorical imperative.

4. According to Kant, how is beauty judged?

5. Was Kant's "Critique of Judgment" a failure or success?

6. What is paradox freedom?

7. How did Fichte use Kant's philosophies?

8. Which philosopher took the most extravagant interpretation of Kant's views, and why?

9. Describe Kant's basic political belief.

10. How is beauty subjective?

(see the answer keys)

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