Essentials of Philosophy - Kant - Quiz 8

Birth and Death of Kant

1724 - 1804

Other than Christian Wolff, who are the other two thinkers Kant studied at the University of Königsberg?

Gottfried Leibniz: an Enlightened logician and mathematician

Isaac Newton: a scientist known for the discovery of natural laws

Who was Kant's renowned colleague at the University of Königsberg that introduced him to a philosopher's work that awakened him from his "dogmatic slumber"?

Hamann

Who was Kant's most celebrated student, who founded the "Storm and Stress" (Sturm und Drung) movement?

Herder

Name Kant's "three Critiques" in their chronological order.

1. Critique of Pure Reason

2. Critique of Practical Reason

3. Critique of Judgement

Whose writings awakened Kant from his "dogmatic slumber"?

David Hume

By regarding the subject as a series of sense perceptions, what did this writer consider as an illusion?

Causation

What is the name of this writer's predecessor that viewed that the object does not exist independently of the subject, but since God is the omnipresent seer, the object exists?

Berkeley

What is Kant's name for the objective world beyond our reach (which he also calls "thing-in-itself")?

Noumena

What is his name for the subject-dependent world?

Phenomena

What is the Latin phrase Kant uses to describe the pre-existing mental framework through which our sense perception is filtered? 

a priori

What are some main categories through which our sense perceptions are filtered?

Time, Space, Causation

What is the phrase that Kant uses to describe his philosophy?

Transcendental Idealism

What is the name of the absolute and unconditional ethical imperative Kant believes we innately possess?

Categorical Imperative

In contrast, what is the name of the contingent and utilitarian ethical imperative Kant believes we acquire through experience?

Hypothetical Imperative

Kant's view of religion is that the _____  world is governed by physical laws and deterministic, whereas the _____  world is unknowable, where human _____  _____ takes place, and where God belongs

phenomenal

noumenal

free will

Therefore, God's existence is not _____  or _____. It requires _____  to believe in God, not reason.

provable

disprovable

Faith