3 Philosophy of Human Nature Kant
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T or F 2. The Enlightenment believed that scientific knowledge could be applied to human affairs and that the conditions of human life could be improved by the use of reason.
3.What Philosopher had an important impact on Kant’s view of Human nature?
T or F 4. Kant expressed the view that free democratic use of reason should be used to explore every important issue.
T or F 5. Kant expressed the view that free democratic use of reason should be used to explore authoritative and sacred issues.
T or F 6. Empirical methods of physical science depend on a priori presuppositions.
T or F 7. Empirical methods of physical science depend on a posteriori presuppositions.
T or F 8. The method of proof in mathematics depends on a priori presuppositions.
T or F 9. The method of proof in mathematics depends on a posteriori presuppositions.
T or F 10. Analytic statements are known to be true a priori.
T or F 11. Synthetic statements are known to be true a priori.
T or F 12. Analytic statements are known to be true a posteriori.
T or F 13. Synthetic statements are known to be true a posteriori.
T or F 14. Kant’s Copernican Revolution was his doctrine that objects that conform to our knowledge.
T or F 15. Kant’s Copernican Revolution was his doctrine that our knowledge must conform to objects.
T or F 16. Certain basic features of our knowledge are due to the nature of our human cognitive faculties.
T or F 17. We know the world only as appearances.
T or F 18. We know the world as it is in itself.
T or F 19. The world of appearance is imbued with the forms our perception.
20. What are the forms of our perception?
21. What are the forms of our thought?
T or F 22. The world as it is in itself may not be spatial or temporal.
23. What is universal determinism?
T or F 23. The principle that ever event has a preceding cause is a presupposition of science.
T or F 24. Universal determinism conflicts with free will.