Chapter 20 Self-Quiz

. The aim of Kant's critique of reason is

to demonstrate that reason can only be passion's slave.

to reveal the a priori conditions of knowledge.

to show, contrary to Hume, that the scope of possible human knowledge is unlimited.

to show, contrary to Descartes, that human knowledge is not possible.

. Synthetic a priori judgments, Kant tells us, are

knowable only in virtue of experience.

true in virtue of the fact that their denials are contradictory.

the only way of knowing things in themselves.

a reflection of the structure of a rational mind.

. The illusions of speculative metaphysics

arise because of the very nature of reason itself.

pertain particularly to the realm of phenomena.

can be avoided by proving the existence of God.

have nothing to do with the nature of the self.

. Concepts, according to Kant, are

faint copies of impressions.

one and all a priori.

like rules for operating on some given material.

the only things guaranteeing knowledge of things in themselves.

. The function of the categories is to

construct an objective world.

illustrate how subjective all our opinions and beliefs really are.

serve as abstractions from sensible intuitions.

help the dove to fly in empty space.

. According to Kant, knowledge of our own nature

is impossible in any sense.

is restricted to the way we appear in the realm of phenomena.

is made possible by the category of substance, the application of which to ourselves demonstrates that we are essentially souls, not bodies.

includes knowledge that we are free.

. According to Kant, a good will is one that

wills according to the dictates of one's society.

wills to do its duty.

obeys only hypothetical imperatives.

is heteronomous.

. The supreme principle of morality, Kant tells us,

depends on the will of God.

is different for each rational individual, since we are all autonomous choosers of the morally good.

is universally accepted.

forbids applying rules to others we don't apply to ourselves.

. The categorical imperative

is true in the same way that "Bachelors are unmarried" is true.

tells us that if we want to be happy, we should respect the rights of others.

bids us universalize all synthetic a priori principles.

forbids manipulation of others for our own purposes.

. Regarding freedom of the will, Kant says that

we have no good reason to believe in it.

though all our actions, noumenally conceived, have causes, yet we may be phenomenally free.

morality would not be possible without it.

we are free whenever we are not hindered in doing something we want to do.

. I am autonomous in the realm of morality in the sense that

I am a legislator of the moral law for myself.

my morality may not be the morality of others.

what I want may not be what you want.

I cannot be in error about what is right for me.

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