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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. Unlike Descartes, what was Kant unwilling to draw the conclusion that he was?
(a) A property.
(b) A self.
(c) A substance.
(d) A philosopher.

2. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Hume.

3. Why was Kant's system revolutionary?
(a) It asserted the existence of synthetic a priori truths.
(b) It asserted the existence of analytic a priori truths.
(c) It asserted the existence of analytic a posteriori truths.
(d) It asserted the existence of synthetic a posteriori truths.

4. When Kant attempted to use the unity of apperception to prove facts about the world, who admitted that these arguments were not generally philosophically sound?
(a) Kant.
(b) Scruton.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Hume.

5. Which of the following is true about the statement "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) The act of having is a substance.
(b) Fido is a substance.
(c) Brown is a substance.
(d) Spots is a substance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?

2. What is the name of the philosopher who wrote Meditations?

3. When was "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" published?

4. According to the ontological argument, why does God exist?

5. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Kant wanted to believe in the existence of the soul from a philosophical standpoint?

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

3. What distinctions did Kant set forth to classify truths?

4. Why did Kant believe the present was the most privileged time period?

5. How did Kant and Descartes compare and contrast on theories relating to substance and property?

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

7. Describe mistakes as they are described in the reading.

8. Why did the second version of "Critique of Pure Reason" fail?

9. Describe Kant's categories of metaphysics.

10. What are antinomies?

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