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PHIL2121 Introduction to the Philosophy of the

Human Person/Pambungad sa Pilosopiya ng Tao
1st Quarter Exam (49/50)
He claimed that humanity and all other beings are aspects of a single unfolding reality.
Answer: Warwick Fox

Environmentalism is the position that humans are the most important or critical element in
any given situation; that the human race must always be its own primary concern.
Answer: False

Sheila Collins emphasized the importance of feminism to the environmental movement and
various other liberation movements, arguing that the domination of women by men is
historically the original form of domination in human society.
Answer: False

Which of these is not a proposition under the deep ecology principle? 

Answer: no correct answer

The Fallacy of Part and Whole consists in applying one standard for one group or individual,
and another standard for an opposing group or individual.

Answer: False

What doctrine states that a word acquires its meaning only within the context of a
proposition or sentence?

Answer: context principle

IDENTIFICATION:
He referred to wisdom as "the right use of knowledge."
Answer: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is a statement that is objective in nature and well-supported by evidence.

Answer: fact

Good judgment is an integral part of prudence.

Answer: False
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Arne Naess refers to this as the fight against pollution and resource depletion, the main goal
of which is the health and affluence of people in the developed countries.
Answer: shallow ecology movement 

Environmental ethics refers to the crucial role of ethics in the study of relation of human
beings and the environment.
Answer: True

Anthropocentric environmentalism is concerned with the conservation of the environment

only for exploitation by and for human purposes.

Answer: True

What is the other term used for epistemological holism?

Answer: confirmation

Environmental ethics is a branch of applied philosophy that studies the conceptual

foundations of environmental values

Answer: True

Foresight is the ability to take all relevant circumstances into account.

Answer: False

In W.V.O Quine's name, "O" stands for what?

Answer: Orman

According to Peter Vardy, weak anthropocentrism argues that humans are at the center of
reality and it is right for them to be so.

Answer: False

In ethics, a "prudential judgment" is one where the circumstances must be weighed to

determine the correct action.

Answer: True

Peter Vardy argued that humans tend to assess things wrongly in terms of their usefulness to us.
Answer: False

The author of "Being and Nothingness," a book which mostly tackles transcendence
Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre
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It refers to the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason.
Answer: prudence

IDENTIFICATION:
 According to Confucius, this is "the bitterest way" to acquire wisdom.
Answer: Experience

IDENTIFICATION:
Taoists adhere to these as basis for their doctrine of wisdom.
Answer: TAO, Tao, Tao Te Ching (NO SPECIFIC ANSWER)

IDENTIFICATION:
The personification of wisdom among ancient Romans
Answer: Minerva

According to Andrew Brennan, libertarian extension is one of the three general ethical
approaches in valuing our natural resources.

Answer: False

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, prudence begins with an understanding of the first
principles of practical reason, also known as?
Answer: synderesis

The Fallacy of Ad Hominem involves the rejection of some person's position not by virtue of
the argument itself, but by virtue of some unlikeable aspect of the person.?

Answer: True

Deep ecology is the argument for the intrinsic value or inherent worth of the environment.
Answer: True

The author of "The Reflective Practitioner," a book that introduced the concept of reflection-
in-action which explain how professionals meet the challenges of their work with a kind
of improvisation.

Answer: Donald Schon

In this book, Aristotle maintains that nature has made all things specifically for the sake of
man and that the value of non-human things in nature is merely instrumental. 
Answer: Politics
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The number of steps involved in Graham Gibbs' full structured debriefing.

Answer: 6

George Sessions articulated the principles of the new Deep Ecology Movement along with Arne
Naess.

Answer: True

Ecologic extension focuses only on the worth of the environment in terms of its utility or
usefulness to humans.

Answer: False

IDENTIFICATION:
King Solomon's teachings about wisdom was further narrated in this book of Holy Bible.
Answer: Ecclesiastes

What is the Greek term for "wisdom?"

Answer: Sophia

Prudential Anthropocentrism
Enlightened or   recognizes that duties towards the environment
emanate from our duties to its human inhabitants?

Answer: Prudential Anthropocentrism

This integral part of prudence refers to the understanding of first principles.

Answer: intelligentia

It is used in phenomenology to refer to the terminus of an intention as given for

consciousness.
Answer: noema

In Cartesian philosophy, the integral parts of prudence are the elements that must be
present for any complete or perfect act of the virtue.
Answer: False

Which is not true about opinions?

Answer: They are statements of actuality and experience.

The principle introduced by Edmund Husserl which is considered a major philosophical

movement in the twentieth century.
Answer: phenomenology
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The ability to discern and apply higher laws to matters that fall outside the scope of the
more common or lower rules that typically guide human action is called synesis.

Answer: False

Which of these does not belong to Immanuel Kant's transcendental arguments?

Answer: aggressive

Kant used transcendental arguments to show that sensory experiences would not be
possible apart from our contributing to them their spatial and temporal form, as narrated in
this book.
Answer: Critique of Pure Reason

Chris Argyris and Donald Schön conceptualized the idea of single-loop learning and double-
loop learning in what year?

Answer: 1978

What is the Greek term for "all" or "total"?

Answer: Holos

This refers to the representation of the world or a way the world could possibly be.
Answer: proposition

Consequentialist ethical theories maintain that whether an action is right or wrong is for
often independent of whether its consequences are good or bad.

Answer: False

Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical "Laudato si'" critiques consumerism, environmental

degradation, and global warming.

Answer: True

Command, which is the direct application of good counsel and judgment, is the principal act
of prudence.

Answer: True