THE STO.

NIÑO FORMATION AND SCIENCE SCHOOL-NIGHT CLASS

San Roque, Rosario, Batangas
School Year 2020-2021
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL-NIGHT CLASS DEPARTMENT

NAME: _______________________________ SCORE: ________

GRADE & SECTION: ____________________ DATE:__________

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON 11

Lesson 1: The Nature of Philosophy
Performance Task 1.1
Directions: Complete the graphic organizer below stating the three characteristic of philosophical
question.

Characteristics of a Philosophic Question

Why is it important to understand the nature of philosophy? Explain and elaborate. Write your answer
inside the box below.

CLARISSA B. MAGADIA
SUBJECT TEACHER
 THE STO. NIÑO FORMATION AND SCIENCE SCHOOL-NIGHT CLASS
San Roque, Rosario, Batangas
School Year 2020-2021
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL-NIGHT CLASS DEPARTMENT

WRITTEN OUTPUTS 1&2

LESSON 1: The Nature of Philosophy

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words to complete the sentence below. Write your
answer on the space provided.

1. is the philosopher and mathematician who first coined the word “philosophia”.

2. The believe that reality is a construct of the mind.

3, Philosophy is a inquiry which serves as a discipline that

transcend and crosses over other science.

4. Before philosophy, any investigation regarding the nature of things in general, falls under

the term .

5. A scientist, practicing his science in his laboratory is an example of a inquiry.

6. According to Thales, reality is .

7. The believe that is one objective reality despite numerous interpretation of

different observers.

8. is the father of Western Philosophy.

9. is the mother disciplne from which other sciences emerge.

10.During the era of Thales and his fellow philosophers from Miletus, they all assumed that the universe
was , or an orderly system.

CLARISSA B. MAGADIA
SUBJECT TEACHER
 THE STO. NIÑO FORMATION AND SCIENCE SCHOOL-NIGHT CLASS
San Roque, Rosario, Batangas
School Year 2020-2021
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL-NIGHT CLASS DEPARTMENT

NAME: _______________________________ SCORE: ________

GRADE & SECTION: ____________________ DATE:__________

Lesson 2: The Beginning of Doing Philosophy

Performance Task 1.2
Imagine that you are in the Manila Bay while Thales talking to you and convincing you, when his
method was based on crude observation, that reality is water: would you believe him? Why or why
not? Explain your reason. Write your answer inside the box below.

RUBRICS SCORING FOR EXPLANATION

15 points One coherent explanation Adequately convincing and clear
explanation given

10 points One explanation Not as coherent and clear explanation

5pts Not so adequate There is no clear or adequate

explanation for the answer

CLARISSA B. MAGADIA
SUBJECT TEACHER
 THE STO. NIÑO FORMATION AND SCIENCE SCHOOL-NIGHT CLASS
San Roque, Rosario, Batangas
School Year 2020-2021
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL-NIGHT CLASS DEPARTMENT

WRITTEN OUTPUTS 3&4

LESSON 3: Approaches in doing Philosophy

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words to complete the sentence. Write your answer on
the space provided.

1. wrote the article entitled Philosophy Critical and Speculative, which singled out
two main approacheds in doing philosophy.
2, The two main task of analytic philosophy are:

3. The practice of Western philosophy can be described as the search for for its own
sake.
4. The practice of eastern philosophy can be described as a way of .

5.” Philosophy aims to reach some general conclusions as to the nature of the
universe and as to our position and prospects in it.”

6. philosophy works on the assumption that all properties in a given system cannot
be broken down down by its component parts alone, but rather the system as a whole entity decides
how the individual parts behave.

7. type of holism claims a scientic theory cannot be tested individually since

testing a single theory would always depend on other establishetheories and hyphotheses.

8.The word holism came from the Greek word which means “all”.

9. A approach of doing philosophy refers to understanding complex ideas by

reducing them to their parts or individual constituents.

10. The attempt of the pre-Socratic philosphers to explain reality by abstracting a unifying principle or
substance is an example of the approach.

CLARISSA B. MAGADIA
SUBJECT TEACHER