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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Immanuel Kant born?

2. According to Hume, what can reason tell us about?

3. When beginning an argument, what did Kant appeal to?

4. How was Kant influenced by Leibniz?

5. According to Kant, what does the notion of change imply?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Kant's published life.

2. What type of questions did Kant believe that "Critique of Pure Reason" answered?

3. Describe phenomena and noumena.

4. How did Kant react to the arguments from Hume and Leibniz?

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

6. Describe Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics.

7. What are Kant's categories of thought?

8. Describe Kant's categories of metaphysics.

9. What did Hume argue about reason?

10. What was the effect of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Descartes and the problem of objective knowledge influence Kant?

Essay Topic 2

What arguments does Kant's "Critique of Judgment" make? Why are his arguments disorganized and weak?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Kant believe that the fundamental political right was freedom? How do political theorists apply this concept today?

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