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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Beauty and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose theories greatly influenced Kant's metaphysical system?
(a) Montesquieu.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Descartes.

2. What is the name of the philosopher who wrote Meditations?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Kant.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Hume.

3. What was described as being an object itself?
(a) Phenomena.
(b) Noumena.
(c) Substance.
(d) Property.

4. Following from Kant's view, what measures whether or not an action is good?
(a) Religion.
(b) Passion behind the decision.
(c) Difficulty.
(d) Law-abiding.

5. Which of the following statements about predicates is not true?
(a) Existence does not imply a predicate.
(b) Redness is a predicate of an apple.
(c) Existence is a perfection.
(d) The ontological argument fails.

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?

2. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?

3. What are physic-theological arguments?

4. What was the reason Kant's "Critique of Judgment" did not fail?

5. What is rational psychology?

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