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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Enlightenment and Law.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?
(a) One is a human being.
(b) One is a thinking self.
(c) One has an identity.
(d) One is an intelligent self.

2. When did Kant die?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1809.

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

4. What type of sense did Kant have when contemplating natural objects?
(a) Faithless.
(b) Failing.
(c) Aesthetic in absence.
(d) Transcendent.

5. What type of government did Kant favor?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Dictatorship.
(d) Republicanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What describes the second formulation of Kant's categorical imperative?

2. What did Leibniz argue could allow us to know almost everything about the world?

3. Which of the following is true about aesthetic perception?

4. What does aesthetics relate to?

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

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