PHIL 2 - THE KANTIAN REVOLUTION

Kant was born in Koenisgberg which nowadays is knows as

• Jurmala

• Klaipeda

• Ventspils

• Kaliningrad

When he died, his last words were

• Et tu, Brute? ('You too Brutus?')

• "Es ist gut" ("It is good")

• 'Wir sind Bettler, Hoc est Verum' ('We are beggars, this is true')

• none of the above

The housewifes of Koenisberg could set their clock by his time of passing. He was donnish and maniacally precise

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of these books Kant did not write

• Critique of Pure Reason

• Critique of Practical Reason

• Monadology

• Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

Kant disagrees with empiricists on how we arrive at knowledge. Or at least how we are to view its mechanisms

• TRUE

• FALSE

For Kant we must recognize that : (pick the wrong answer)..

• we cannot know things as they are in themselves

• our knowledge is subject to the conditions of our experience.

• a priori analysis can't give a demonstration of metaphysical truth of world

• our knowledge is not subject to the conditions of our experience

For Kant: a priori cognition is transcendental, while a posteriori cognition is empirical

• TRUE

• FALSE

Space, time and causality are the conditions for our experience, as such they are considered by Kant as :

• impure and empirical concepts

• pure a priori intuitions

• pure empirical ideas

• none of the above

For Kant real truth (knowledge) does not lie in synthetic a priori claims

• TRUE

• FALSE

Kant's trascendental idealism is inspired and offers links with the philosophy developed by (pick the wrong answer)

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Locke

• Pythagoras and Crisippus