Long Examination in Introduction to Philosophy of Man

Test I. Identification.

Direction: Answer the following questions below, choose the correct answer inside the
box.
Pythagoras Thales love wisdom cosmos phusis

Water 2nd mother philosophy science

_______________1. He is the father of Western philosophy and recorded in the history that veer
away from mythological tradition and began to view things in a different perspective.
Philosophy is a _____________ 2. inquiry which serves as a _________________________ 3.
discipline that transcends and crosses over other sciences.
During the era of Thales and his fellow philosophers from Miletus, they all assumed that the
universe was a _______________ 4. or an orderly system.
____________5. Is the philosopher who first coined the word philosophia.
6. According to Thales, reality is________________.
__________________________ 7. Is the mother discipline from which other sciences emerge.
Philosophy came from root word “philo” which means 8. ________________________ and Sophia
which means 9. ______________________
10. Before philosophy, any investigation regarding the nature of things in general, falls under the
term ________________________.
11. It is the science of correct reasoning.
12. It is the process which the mind grasps a thing without denying or affirming it.
13. It is the product of simple apprehension, as the mind creates a copy of the physical (sensed)
thing in the mind.
14. It is the llinguistic representations of judgements. In the same way that “terms” are the products
of “ideas,” these things are the products of “judgements.”
15. The last mental operation wherein the act of the mind where a conclusion is inferred from a
given set of propositions.
16. The theory of existence and reality.
17. The theory of knowledge.
18. The theory of value (good and evil).
19. It says that the Result or the Consequence of an Act is the real measure of whether it is good or
bad.
20. Immanuel Kant’s Ethics that is based on duty.

Test II- Essay. Explain the following.

1. Holistic vs. Partial point of view. (5 points)

2. Opinion vs. truth. (5points)
3. Science Vs. Metaphysics. (5points)
4. Immanuel Kant’s Ethics Vs. Stuart Mills. (5 points)
5. Why do you need to study Philosophy? (10 points)

Prepared by: SHERWIN B. PAREDES, LPT, Ma.Ed.

Answer Key
Test I
1. Thales
2. 2nd
3. Mother
4. Cosmos
5. Pythagoras
6. Water
7. Philosophy
8. Love
9. Wisdom
10. Phusis
11. Logic
12. Apprehension
13. Ideas
14. Proposition
15. Reasoning
16. Metaphysics
17. Epistemology
18. Ethics
19. Utilitarianism
20. Totalitarianism