Quiz: Critique of Practical Reason

10 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. 1. Why does the highest good require the immortality of the soul?

   Holiness needs an endless progress, so an endless existence Happiness is impossible in this life for anyone, however virtuous The soul has been proved to be a simple, indestructible substance God punishes the wicked only after death
2. 2. If time and space are not ideal, what does Kant say is the only consistent alternative?

   Spinozism Humean scepticism Epicurean atomism Leibnizian monadology
3. 3. What word does Kant offer for the satisfaction that accompanies the consciousness of virtue?

   Bliss Glory Pleasure Self-contentment
4. 4. How does the order of the Analytic here differ from the first Critique?

   It begins with God and ends with freedom It begins with the senses and ends with principles It begins with principles and ends with the senses It has no Analytic at all, only a Dialectic
5. 5. In the Preface, which concept does Kant call the keystone of the whole system of pure reason?

   Freedom Happiness God Immortality
6. 6. How does Kant judge the proposition that striving after happiness produces a virtuous mind?

   True of the Stoics only Only conditionally false True but unprovable Absolutely false
7. 7. According to Kant, what did the Stoic say?

   Happiness is the reward God gives to virtue Virtue and happiness have nothing to do with each other To be conscious that one’s maxims lead to happiness is virtue To be conscious of one’s virtue is happiness
8. 8. According to the Conclusion, in what did the contemplation of the world end before method rescued it?

   Superstition and fanaticism Scepticism Alchemy Astrology
9. 9. What status does Kant give to the moral necessity of assuming God’s existence?

   The ground of all moral obligation whatever An objective duty commanded by the moral law A subjective need connected with duty, not itself a duty A theoretical proof drawn from the order and design of nature
10. 10. What is the “paradox of method” in the second Critique?

    Freedom must be proved before the moral law can be known Happiness must be defined before virtue God must be known before duty Good and evil are defined only after the moral law