Philosophy final oral exam questions

Lesson 1. Doing philosophy

What is philosophy?

What is wisdom?

What is that important act in philosophy?

What is the tool used in philosophy?

Thales’s 3 philosophical activities.

What is AQAL? Its importance.

Lesson 2. Methods of philosophizing

Explain the meaning of epistemology and its two-fold purpose?

What is knowledge and how it is acquired?

What are the three theories of truth? Elaborate.

Lesson 3 Human Person as embodied spirit?

Define and differentiate the following terms: man, human person,

personhood, human nature.

The two general terms that differentiate man from other creatures.

How do you characterize human person as embodied spirit?

What is transcendence. Then, illustrate through example.

Lesson 4.. Human person in the environment.

How do you characterize the relationship of human person to the

environment?

Three views on human person with environment in philosophical

environment.?
What are the principles of sustainability and explain?
What is deep and social ecology and Ecofeminism? Tell us
something about these radical ecological philosophy.
Frugality and prudence. Why need these in our exercise our power over
environment?

Lesson 5. Human Freedom

How do we know that our actions are free?

Voluntariness , freewill, and self-determination are the very elements of

the exercise of freedom. Explain how are we going to understand these.
Lesson 6

What is society?

How society is formed?

Man’s identity Is formed as he interacts in the society. Explain.

Society evolves as it continues to interact with human person.

What lesson can you get of these fact above?

How society transforms individual?

What is socialization?

Lesson 7

What is life?

What is death? What is the meaning of life?

How death affects our outlook on the meaning of life?

Death awareness encourage us to live a meaningful life.