Deck 11: The Universalist: Immanuel Kant

Question 1

Kant criticized both rationalism and empiricism.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Responsibility implies freedom of choice.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Kantian formalism is also called transcendental idealism.

Question 5

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

Question 6

Kant accepted Hume s skepticism.

Question 7

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

Question 8

The term moral is from Latin.

Question 9

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

Question 10

Nonmoral is sometimes used interchangeably with amoral .

Question 11

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

Question 12

Something that is immoral is morally wrong.

Question 13

Moral issues rarely confront us.

Question 14

Kant was a prolific writer.

Question 15

Kant held that Hume was widely misunderstood.

Question 16

Kant held that philosophy consisted of knowing its limits precisely.

Question 17

Moral responsibility involves determining who did what.

Question 18

Kant denied knowledge to make room for faith.

Question 19

Kant was born in Lyons, France.

Question 20

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

Question 21

What is good, for Moore?

A) right
B) God
C) good
D) love

Question 22

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 23

Which is not a transcendental idea, for Kant?

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

Question 24

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 25

Kant argues that we can directly experience noumena.

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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 29

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 30

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

Question 31

How many transcendental ideas did Kant identify?

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

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

Question 34

Kant wanted to know if metaphysics was possible.

Question 35

Pure knowledge is morally pure.

Question 36

Kant advocated a Galilean revolution in philosophy.

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

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

Question 40

Sociopaths lack

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

Question 41

What is morality a function of, for Kant?

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

Question 42

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 43

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 44

Who wrote A Theory of Justice ?

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

Question 45

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 46

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 47

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

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

Question 48

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 49

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 50

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

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

Question 51

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

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

Question 52

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 53

What is the road to hell proverbially paved with?

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

Question 54

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

Question 55

Who coined the term critical philosophy ?

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

Question 56

Who wrote Justice, Gender, and the Family ?

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

Question 57

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 58

Who developed the idea of the original position ?

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

Question 59

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

Question 60

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

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

Question 61

What can be known, according to Kant?

Question 62

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

Question 63

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