Q 01/05

Neighbours in Königsberg were said to set their watches by which punctual habit of Immanuel Kant?

A) His daily walk

B) His morning lecture

C) His evening prayers

D) His midday meal

Answer · why

A) His daily walk

His daily walk was so regular that neighbours reportedly timed their watches by it. Kant kept a rigid, clocklike schedule and never married, though he...

Q 02/05

Immanuel Kant spent nearly his whole life in Königsberg, a Baltic port now known by which name?

A) Saint Petersburg

B) Klaipėda

C) Szczecin

D) Kaliningrad

Answer · why

D) Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad is the name the Soviet Union gave the city in 1946, after taking it from a defeated Germany. Its university has since been renamed in Kant...

Q 03/05

Whose doubts about cause and effect did Kant credit with waking him from his 'dogmatic slumber'?

A) Thomas Reid

B) George Berkeley

C) David Hume

D) John Locke

Answer · why

C) David Hume

David Hume argued that we never perceive a necessary connection between a cause and its effect. Kant's long answer to that doubt became the Critique o...

Q 04/05

Kant likened his idea that objects conform to the mind to the revolution of which astronomer?

A) Tycho Brahe

B) Copernicus

C) Galileo

D) Kepler

Answer · why

B) Copernicus

Copernicus set the observer in motion instead of the sky, and Kant claimed a similar shift in perspective for metaphysics. What we can know, he argued...

Q 05/05

Kant argued that which act is wrong even when a murderer asks where your friend is hiding?

A) Lying

B) Staying silent

C) Fighting back

D) Running away

Answer · why

A) Lying

Lying, Kant held, is wrong even to a would-be killer, because the worth of a moral act does not depend on consequences. He made the claim in a 1797 re...