Introduction To The Philosophy of The Human Person 1 Quarter Examination
Introduction To The Philosophy of The Human Person 1 Quarter Examination
Introduction To The Philosophy of The Human Person 1 Quarter Examination
2. What is the branch of philosophy that explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human
action?
5. What is really only an extension of a fundamental and necessary drive in every human being
to know what is real?
d. acquires self-understanding
A. demonstrate that the premises, if true, make the conclusion very likely
B. show that the premises, if true, guarantee that the conclusion must be true.
C. the gods.
13. Choices and decisions are only physical impulses coming from our brain. This idea describes
d'Holbach's beliefs about _____.
14. Which of the following works were written by Jean Paul Sartre?
15. Phenomenology is a method that uses _____ to describe things as they appear in
consciousness.
a. first-person information
b. active observation
c. scientific experimentation
d. passive observation
16. This fallacy is also referred to as coincidental correlation, or correlation not causation.
a. False Cause
b. Hasty Generalization
17. This fallacy is commonly based on a broad conclusion upon the statistics of a survey of a
small group that fails to sufficiently represent the whole population.
a. False Cause
b. Hasty Generalization
18. An argument that appeals or exploits people’s vanities, desire for esteem, and anchoring on
popularity.
a. False Cause
b. Hasty Generalization
19. This is a type of fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed implicitly or
explicitly in the premise.
a. False Cause
b. Hasty Generalization
Test II. True or False. Read the following statements below and identify whether they are
true or false.
2. Facticity are the things that we already have in life. These are also details which surround us in
the past.
3. As spatial temporal being, we are limitless by our bodies. We can be in any place that we
want.
4. The body acts as an intermediary. Our body do not limit itself to the world.
a. only statement 1 is true
5. Sentience is the ability to feel and experience and experiment things. It is done through
observation.
6. Rational Soul – Ranks the highest for it takes responsibility the functions of vegetative and
sensitive souls. It is capable of reasoning, willing, reflecting, and deciding apart from sensing
and growing.
7. Narrative identity the dynamic way of interpreting identity and it is the hermeneutics of the
self.
8. Biocentrism is the view that only humans and animals, but also plants should be morally
considerable.
9. Arne Naess is the Father of Surface Ecology. Each living being is understood as a goal itself,
in principle on an equal footing with one’s ego.
3. It is the status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or
omission, in accordance with one’s moral obligation.
5. The belief that all events are caused by past events such that nothing other than what does
occur could occur.
6. Is the power rooted in reason and will to act or not to act, to do this or that and so to perform
deliberate actions.
Test IV. Essay. Read the following questions and explain it.
1. Are we pushing the responsibility for our existence on to society, instead of facing the
questions of who we are? Explain.
2. How do you understand the meaning of frugality and prudence toward the environment?
3. What is your greatest achievement/s? How did you handle difficult situations?