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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. What did Schopenhauer take for granted from Kant's philosophy?
(a) Lack of proof of existence of noumena.
(b) Proof of the soul's existence.
(c) Argument from design.
(d) Unreality of perception.

2. Which of the following did Kant approach in a curious way?
(a) Laws.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Logic.

3. What did Kant call it when one beholds an aesthetic object?
(a) Free play.
(b) Objective play.
(c) Foul play.
(d) Subjective play.

4. What distinguishes a person from the rest of existence?
(a) Self-consciousness.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Rational will.
(d) Contradictions.

5. In the ideal aesthetic case, what is one moved by?
(a) The properties of a substance.
(b) Raw sensory experience.
(c) Perception of a person.
(d) The inner-workings of a mechanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kant, how many people perceive the same aesthetic object the same way?

2. Which of the following is true about the idealism Fichte wanted to justify?

3. Which of the following describes why Kant saw beauty as objective?

4. 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?

5. What did Kant refer to in order to solve the problem buried below ethical theory?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Fichte use Kant's philosophies?

2. Describe Kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative at the root of morality.

3. According to Kant, how is beauty judged?

4. Describe Kant's hypothetical imperative.

5. Describe Kant's third formulation of the categorical imperative at the root of morality.

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

7. Describe Kant's categorical imperative.

8. How do perceptions occur in an ideal aesthetic case?

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

10. What did Kant believe about monarchy, democracy, and republicanism?

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