Exam 11: The Universalist: Immanuel Kant

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

How many transcendental ideas did Kant identify?

Moral issues rarely confront us.

What can be known, according to Kant?

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

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

Something that is immoral is morally wrong.

Kant advocated a Galilean revolution in philosophy.

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

What is the road to hell proverbially paved with?

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

Kant held that philosophy consisted of knowing its limits precisely.

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

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

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

Kant was a prolific writer.

Kant criticized both rationalism and empiricism.

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

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

Kantian formalism is also called transcendental idealism.