Deck 11: The Universalist: Immanuel Kant

Question 1

Kant held that Hume was widely misunderstood.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The precise time of Kant's daily walk is well-documented.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Pietists believe in imposing a priest between the individual and God.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Kant criticized both rationalism and empiricism.

Question 5

Heinrich Hein claimed that Kant had no life in the proper sense of the term.

Question 6

Moral issues rarely confront us.

Question 7

Kant held that philosophy consisted of knowing its limits precisely.

Question 8

Responsibility implies freedom of choice.

Question 9

Kant claimed that one of Descartes's strengths was that he fully understood scientific method.

Question 10

"Nonmoral" is sometimes used interchangeably with "amoral."

Question 11

Kant termed his analysis of how knowledge was possible a "critique."

Question 12

Something that is immoral is morally wrong.

Question 13

Moral responsibility involves determining who did what.

Question 14

Kantian formalism is also called transcendental idealism.

Question 15

Kant was born in Lyons, France.

Question 16

Kant denied knowledge to make room for faith.

Question 17

Kant accepted Hume's skepticism.

Question 18

The term "moral" is from Latin.

Question 19

Kant was a prolific writer.

Question 20

Kant was a Privatdozent for a while, and so paid directly by his students.

Question 21

Pure knowledge is morally pure.

Question 22

Which is not a transcendental idea, for Kant?

A) Self
B) God
C) Cosmos
D) Will

Question 23

Pure reason, held Kant, posits the idea of a self.

Question 24

What type of reason, for Kant, is confined to the phenomenal world?

A) Practical
B) Theoretical
C) Fallacious
D) Sound

Question 25

Kant first proposed that the earth was part of a solar system that revolved around the sun.

Question 26

Where does free will exist, for Kant?

A) In God
B) In the noumenal world
C) In the imagination alone
D) In the phenomenal world

Question 27

What is Kant's other name for God?

A) The "highest intelligence"
B) The "greatest good"
C) The "unseen visible"
D) The "darkness visible"

Question 28

Kant advocated a Galilean revolution in philosophy.

Question 29

Kant believed that pure reason attempted to lend unity to experience by synthesizing events into a cosmos.

Question 30

Sociopaths lack

A) wisdom
B) health
C) conscience
D) rationality

Question 31

Phenomenal reality is Hume's term for the world as we experience it.

Question 32

Noumenal reality is Kant's term for the world as we experience it.

Question 33

Kant held that Hume's philosophy was less reliable than scientific method.

Question 34

What is the second regulative idea of speculative reason, for Kant?

A) The world in general
B) Causation
C) The self
D) Necessity

Question 35

Kant argues that we can directly experience noumena.

Question 36

Kant wanted to know if metaphysics was possible.

Question 37

What is the principle that can be defended under all stages of human development, according to Feyerabend?

A) Anything goes
B) Act only on that maxim that you can will to be moral law
C) The greatest good for the greatest number
D) All things to all men

Question 38

What is good, for Moore?

A) Right
B) God
C) Good
D) Love

Question 39

What, according to Kant, is the doctrine of how we should become worthy of happiness?

A) Morality
B) The Mean
C) Religion
D) Egoism

Question 40

How many transcendental ideas did Kant identify?

A) 3
B) 5
C) 7
D) 9

Question 41

Who wrote Justice, Gender, and the Family ?

A) Rawls
B) Mill
C) Okin
D) Narveson

Question 42

Outline the sort of society that Rawls believes would be just. How does this reflect a Kantian concern with persons as ends? What is the objection that Okin levels against Rawls' view? Do you believe that Rawls could meet this objection? What other objections might be developed against Rawls' position? Do you believe that they could be met?

Question 43

How should we treat humanity, according to Kant? What does this mean in practice? What arguments does he give for this view? Do you find them persuasive, or not? If not, do you think that better arguments can be developed in support of his view, or do you think that we should reject it? Justify your answer in each case.

Question 44

What is morality a function of, for Kant?

A) Reason
B) Desire
C) Need
D) Egoism

Question 45

What has nothing to do with the enjoyment of life, for Kant?

A) The majesty of duty
B) The shackles of wisdom
C) The devotion of God
D) The love of self

Question 46

Who developed the idea of the "original position"?

A) Rawls
B) Russell
C) Hume
D) Kant

Question 47

What is the relationship between duty and desire, for Kant?

A) Duty serves desire
B) Duty overpowers desire
C) There is no relationship between them
D) Duty is noumenal, desire is its phenomenal equivalent

Question 48

How should we treat humanity, according to Kant?

A) As a mere means
B) For our own ends
C) As we would ourselves want to be treated
D) As an end

Question 49

Who held that the demand for intellectual honesty is itself dishonest?

A) Kant
B) Hume
C) Okin
D) Adorno

Question 50

What, for Kant, are actions based on desire known as?

A) Evil
B) Maxims
C) Impulses
D) Inclinations

Question 51

Who viewed the human mind as a passive receiver of impressions?

A) Cartesians
B) British empiricists
C) Kantains
D) Continental rationalists

Question 52

What are Kant's objections to Hume's epistemology? How did they lead him to develop his own views in response to Hume?

Question 53

What is the command that, for Kant, is universally binding on all rational creatures?

A) Inclination
B) Hypothetical imperative
C) Categorical imperative
D) Egoism

Question 54

Who allegedly confused knowledge that is triggered by experience with that which is based on experience?

A) Kant
B) Rawls
C) Hume
D) Locke

Question 55

Who wrote A Theory of Justice ?

A) Rawls
B) Russell
C) Hume
D) Kant

Question 56

How does Kant allow for the possibility of human free will? How is this relevant to his account of morality?

Question 57

Who coined the term "critical philosophy"?

A) Rawls
B) Adorno
C) Okin
D) Kant

Question 58

What is the road to hell proverbially paved with?

A) Gold
B) Good intentions
C) Selfishness
D) Wicked acts

Question 59

What is the necessity of acting from respect for the [moral] law, for Kant?

A) Egoism
B) Duty
C) Utility
D) Will

Question 60

Outline Kant's account of what makes an action moral. In what ways is Kant's view superficially like the Golden Rule ("Do as you would be done by"), and in what way is it different? Is Kant's account of morality objective or subjective? What about the Golden Rule?

Question 61

How does Kant's account of morality differ from that of Hume? How do these differences reflect the epistemological differences between these two philosophers?

Question 62

What can be known, according to Kant?

Question 63

What is the distinction between a hypothetical imperative and a categorical imperative? How is this relevant to Kantian moral theory?