Human Flourishing Long Quiz 2
Human Flourishing Long Quiz 2
completes the statement or answers the question. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.
STRICTLY NO ERASURES! USE CAPITAL LETTERS!
2. Aristotle states that if we ask what the highest good of human action is:
a. There is no agreement about the answer c. Nearly everyone agrees that it is happiness
b. Most people agree that is pleasure d. There is no objective answer to this question
3. According to Aristotle, we should begin ethical inquiry by specifying:
a. which things are intrinsically valuable
b. What are our fundamental duties are
c. The aim of human life
d. What constraints on behavior it would be reasonable to agree to.
7. How should one treat an old friend whom one has long since exceeded in friendship?
a. Remain friend always
b. Remain friend, but not as closely as before
c. Break off the friendship but maintains feeling of goodwill for the old friend
d. Break off all the relations with the old friend
9. Everyone has the duty to respect and collaborate in personal relationships, and at national and global
levels.
a. Promotion of peace c. Common Good
b. Stewardship of creation d. Participation
10. What does Heidegger say is the purpose of this essay, i.e., what it is meant to prepare?
a. The thinking and questioning about technology is done in order to establish a working
philosophy of technology so it can be better understood.
b. The thinking and questioning about technology is done in order to make technology more useful
to us.
c. The thinking and questioning about technology is done in order to discover our ethical
relationship to technology.
d. The thinking and questioning about technology is done in order to show why technology is not
as vital to life as we think it is.
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11. What is the "anthropological" definition of technology?
a. It is the destructive dangerous power of technology
b. This is one of the terms found in Aristotle's 4-causes that used for "material"
c. A means to an end
d. A human activity
14. Which of these is not one of the three foundational elements of flourishing?
a. The possibility of transformation
b. The innately happy nature of the brain
c. The efficacy of embedded practice
d. The reality of interdependence
16. Which of the following statements below takes a” hedonic” approach to flourishing?
a. Flourishing means something more than pleasure, such that one can still flourish in the face of
flourishing
b. Flourishing is impossible
c. Flourishing only comes through fun.
d. Flourishing is all about feeling pleasure.
17. Which of the following statements below would be suitable to an” eudaimonic approach to
Flourishing
a. Flourishing is all about money and power
b. Flourishing is all about feeling of pleasure
c. Flourishing means that one can still be leading a meaningful life even in the face of suffering.
d. Flourishing is impossible
20. There is no demonry of technology, but rather there is the mystery of its essence. The essence of
technology, as a destination of revealing, is the danger”. Pick up the sentence that best describes why
technology is dangerous.
a. Technological stuff is the essence of technology and therefore all technology should be avoided
so that it does not take over our human way of understanding.
b. I should get rid of my cell phone and stop using computers because they are destroying my
human essence
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c. The essence of technology is dangerous because it is impossible to understand and that is why
we must keep questioning about it.
d. Because of the essence of technology we are only able to see the world and things in one way,
as resources.
21.Based on close reading of the text what seems to be the solution or antidote- what Heidegger calls “
the saving power”- to modern technology that is knowing its essence reveals?
a. More technology and insights c. Art and patience
b. Religion and faith d. Science and Conviction
22. If we allow ourselves to get by modern technology, we lose the essence of who we are being in this
world.
a. saving power c. virtue
b. swallowed d. disciplined
23.A group of scholars who believed that only those which can be observed should be regarded as
meaningful and reject the meaningless.
a. Eudaimonia c. Vienna Circle
b. Science reputation d. Chinese Confucian System
24. Type of wisdom relevant to practical action, implying both good judgment and excellence of
character
and habits, or practical virtue.
a. Phronesis b. Eudaimonia c. Poiesis d. Aletheia
26. In general, Western attitudes to “emotion” can be based in a contradiction. Choose the two sides of
this contradiction.
1. Without emotions, we would be like cyborgs- biological machine that are not truly
human
2. Emotions motivate us to act
3. Emotions are part of our “lower” aspects that make us more like animals and less like
humans
4. Emotions are inherently expressive
28. Disclosure of destiny and of human ___________ are one and the same.
a. essence b. Freedom c. truth d. Poiesi
29. He said that technology is Poiesis that discloses/ reveals the truth
a. Joseph Hickel b. Martin Heidegger c. Aristotle d. Plato
Test II: MULTIPLE CHOICE: Match column A with column B. Write the letter of your choice on the space
provided before the number. USE CAPITAL LETTERS! STRICTLY NO ERASURES.
Column A Column B
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1. Man of the World A. literally ‘good spirited’
14. Phronesis, friendship, wealth and power N. aims for eudaimonia as the ultimate good
15. Calculative thinking O. Developed countries should not push forth more
growth
17. Flourishing borders R. one orders and puts a system of nature so that it
can be understood better and controlled
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