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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. Why didn't Kant advocate democracy?
(a) He didn't think men should be able to control others.
(b) He didn't think all should hold office.
(c) He did not like the concept of political parties.
(d) He didn't think all were qualified to vote.

2. Why did Kant say that empirically, humans are not free?
(a) Humans must breathe and eat.
(b) Humans are controlled by God.
(c) Humans are part of the natural world.
(d) Humans have moral laws to abide by.

3. Which of the following is not considered anti-social behavior as a result of Kant's third formulation of the categorical imperative in modern society?
(a) Theft.
(b) Murder.
(c) Drunk driving.
(d) Begging for money on the streets.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kant's key to law?

2. Whose philosophies presaged existentialism in many ways?

3. What describes the first formulation that Kant derived?

4. According to Hegel, what does reason want to reach?

5. According to Hegel, how did his subject of study build?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Kant's hypothetical imperative.

2. According to Kant, what should the government's role be?

3. What is the relationship that Kant assigned between politics and transcendental philosophy?

4. According to Kant, what is at the root of morality?

5. What is your personal observation of Kant's philosophy?

6. How did Fichte use Kant's philosophies?

7. What is the modern connection to Kant's work?

8. Describe the term 'aesthetics'.

9. How is beauty subjective?

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

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