Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person

DIAGNOSTIC TEST

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True/False (True=A, False=B)
1. To say that philosophy encourages the adoption of a questioning attitude means that
philosophic
thinking encourages people to deny the existence of God or traditional moral beliefs.
2. In philosophy the purpose of rational self-examination is to develop arguments that correct
or support beliefs in ways that could be persuasive even to people with different
backgrounds.
3. Though philosophy is defined as the pursuit of wisdom, it does not investigate what it means
to ask questions in the first place.
4. As the pursuit of wisdom, philosophy raises questions about almost everything except what
it means to question in the first place.
5. Because philosophy requires that we question our beliefs, it cannot provide reasons why
one set of beliefs should be preferred over another.
6. One of the primary aims of philosophy is to see how our beliefs compare with those of others
who can and do raise objections against those beliefs.
7. Philosophy attempts to answer questions such as "Why do we exist?" by examining what it
means to ask such questions and to evaluate whether proposed answers to such questions
are justified.
8. Philosophical questions are generally more concerned with identifying how beliefs differ
among persons or cultures than with how those different beliefs can be justified.
9. Myth provides the vocabulary and grammar in terms of which both philosophical questions
and their answers are intelligible.
10. By giving us a sense of purpose and moral value, myth indicates our place in nature and
explains in general why things are the way they are.
11. The point of the Socratic method is to determine the truth of a belief by means of dialectical
exchange (questions and answers, hypothesis and counter-example).
12. 12. Socrates's comment that "the unexamined life is not worth living" is an example of his
ironic technique of saying something that means just the opposite.
13. 13. In the Socratic method of enquiry, one asks questions aimed at discovering the nature,
essence, or fundamental principles of the topic under consideration.
14. 14. Socratic ignorance is the same as complete skepticism because Socrates admits he
knows nothing, not even whether his method of enquiry is appropriate.
15. 15. Like the social sciences (e.g., psychology or sociology), philosophy discovers truths by
identifying what people in fact believe instead of judging whether those beliefs are justified.

Multiple Choice
Encircle the letter of the answer the following. Avoid erasures.
16. What is originally meant “love of wisdom”? a. Philosophy b. Ethics c. Epistemology d.
Aesthetics
17. What is the branch of philosophy that explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates
human action?a. Philosophy b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
18. Which deals with nature, sources, limitations and validity of knowledge? a. Metaphysics b.
Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
19. What is the science of the beautiful in its various manifestations? a. Philosophy b. Ethics c.
Epistemology d. Aesthetics
20. What is really only an extension of a fundamental and necessary drive in every human being
to know what is real? a. Metaphysics b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
21. The Filipino attitude as part of life which literally means to leave everything to God which is
Bathala? a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban
22. Which is the philiosophy of “living in harmony with nature”? a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c.
Pakikisama d. Kalooban
23. Which Filipino value is helping others in times of need? a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c.
Pakikisama d. Kalooban 9. Which is reciprocating debts of gratitude between coordinates
and subordinates holds the whole group together? a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama
d. utang na loob
24. A term that show sharing of one’s self to others? a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama
d. Kalooban
25. "Is there anything you would be willing to die for?" is a philosophical question insofar as:
(a) it does not have any right or wrong answer because it is a meaningless question.
(b) it is a meaningless question because everyone could have a different answer to it.
(c) it forces us to articulate and justify our beliefs about what we know and ought to do.
(d) it is more concerned with one's religious beliefs than with factual claims about the
world.
26. One of the aims of philosophy is to think critically about whether there are good reasons for
adopting our beliefs. Reasons are considered "good reasons" if they are consistent with
everyday experience and:
(a) are part of a set of religious, moral, or political beliefs that an individual feels deeply
about.
(b) are considered good by at least one culture, sub-culture, or individual.
(c) cannot be interpreted in different ways by different people or cultures.
(d) take into account objections, are acceptable to impartial third parties, and avoid
undesirable consequences.
27. If the world that we individually perceive is limited to an internal perspective, then there is
no way that we could determine whether our own perspective is useful, true, or valuable
because:
(a) we know whether our internal perspective is correct only by comparing it with an
objective, external perspective (the "real" world).
(b) whatever we appeal to in order to prove that our perspective is right itself would be
part of the standard we use in evaluating that perspective.
(c) scientific research that reveals facts about the world would cause us to challenge
our perceptions in a dream world of our own making.
(d) without limiting our perspective to an internal dream world, we cannot achieve any
objective, external knowledge of the real world.
28. Philosophy is concerned primarily with identifying beliefs about human existence and
evaluating arguments that support those beliefs. These activities can be summarized in two
questions that drive philosophical investigations:
(a) why should we bother? and what are the consequences of our believing one thing
over another?
(b) what do you mean? and how do you know?
(c) who really believes X? and how can we explain differences in people's beliefs?
(d) how do philosophers argue? and are their differences important?
29. One of the tasks of philosophy is to test conceptual frameworks for depth and consistency.
It does this through (1) expressing our ideas in clear, concise language and (2) supporting
those ideas with reasons and with overcoming objections to them. Philosophy thus
emphasizes the need to:
(a) pose questions that can be resolved not by reasoning but only by faith or personal
belief.
(b) show why the beliefs adopted by most people in a culture are preferable since more
people understand those beliefs and see no reason to raise objections to them.
(c) articulate what we mean by our beliefs and to justify our beliefs by arguments.
(d) develop a set of ideas about the nature of society (i.e., an ideology) that can be
used to support a religious conceptual framework.
30. The philosophic insistence on providing a logos for the world and our experience of it might
itself rely ultimately on adopting a certain mythos, insofar as:
(a) philosophy assumes that it is possible and meaningful to reason about the world and
experience.
(b) the myths of philosophy are really lies that are told to make so-called philosophic
enquiries sound more respectable.
(c) philosophy is based on logic, whereas myths are not based on logic.
(d) mythos refers to the philosophic understanding of the world, whereas logos refers to
the philosophic understanding of our experience of the world.