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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. Who did Kant believe was right about objective knowledge?

2. Which of the following was Kant a determined opponent of?

3. What question did Kant's subjective argument begin with?

4. What do all religious arguments collapse into, according to Kant?

5. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why aren't Kant's arguments about the unity of apperception sound?

2. What are Kant's categories of thought?

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

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

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. What did Kant think about marriage?

8. According to Hume, what is needed to believe or understand something?

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

10. Describe Kant's categories of metaphysics.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the beliefs about reason held by Leibniz, Hume, and Kant.

Essay Topic 2

How can beauty be both subjective and objective, according to Kant?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics. What was Kant's subjective argument? What was his objective argument?

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