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14.
a. spiritus animals
b. cogito
c. will
d. love
28.
It is characteristic of postmodern individuals to pretend to have what they
dont have or to be what they are not, i.e., they love to edit their pictures heavily,
making their skin look better than it really is. Baudrillard called this as:
a. simulacrum
b. simulation
c. hyperreality
d.
metanarratives
29.
It is the science of values.
e. Theodicy
f. metaphysics
g. axiology
h. psychology
30.
The means through which philosophy comes to understand beings is
a. intuition
b. faith
c. human reason d. divine revelation
31.
The science of knowledge.
a. Epistemology b. metaphysics c. psychology
d. semantics
32.
He designed the phenomenological approach wherein the consciousness is
studied by suspending ones natural attitude/biases towards an experience and
seeing that experience in its pure essence (eidetic reduction).
a. Martin Heidegger
c. Jean-Francois Lyotard
b. Jean Baudrillard
d. Edmund Husserl
33.
He consolidated empiricists and rationalists by stating that human
knowledge may be both a priori (from reasoning) and a posteriori (from
experience), not either of the two.
a. Soren Kierkegaard
c. Martin Heidegger
b. Immanuel Kant
d. Jean Paul Sartre
34.
Case 1: A mother tells her kid not to touch kettle since it might burn him so
he does not.
Case 2: A kid touches a hot kettle and burns his palm. He never touches hot things
since.
Question: Based on Kierkegaards philosophy, the kid in Case1 is a/n:
a. spectator
b. actor
c. subject
d. object
35.
Which of the following operations is not available to rational souls?
a. motion
b. nutrition
c. growth
d.
reproduction
36.
It is the study that deals with the development of a virtuous and moral
character.
a. Ethics
b. semantics
d. morality
d. axiology
37.
Which of the following is NOT true about living organisms such as man?
a. They are composed of cells.
b. There is always the possibility of death for them
c. They metabolize and processes materials from environment to survive.
d. They are always in perfect equilibrium, that is, their bodies are
chemically stable.
38.
This approach to the study of man states that the center of human
existence is experience and a meticulous description of it.
a. Phenomenological
b. Theocentric
c. Existential
d.
Anthropocentric
39.
Which of the following does not reflect an existentialist line of thought?
a. Man makes himself.
b. Man is condemned to be free.
c. Man is responsible for himself.
d. Man is shaped by his milieu, i.e., Tarzan.
40.
This aspect of the human body is extended to its environment, never
separate from it.
a. Biological
c. Cultural
b. Ecological
d. Phenomenological
41.
Throughout the ages, man has always recognized and expressed that there
is a greater power present somewhere that somehow affects his life. This pertains
to what dimension of his life?
a. physical
b. mental
c. personal
d. spiritual
42.
This kind of motion separates a living organism from a non-living thing, e.g.,
a motion that starts and ends in one and the same being.
a. Immanent motion b. slow motion
c. fast motion
d. transitive
motion
43.
He proposed the idea of simulacrum, an imitation that replaces the original
to the point where the unreal (copy) becomes more real than the reality it
replaced.
a. Martin Heidegger
c. Jean-Francois Lyotard
b. Jean Baudrillard
d. Edmund Husserl
44.
This pertains to knowledge of essences (beyond the senses) and the
relationship between/among those essences; i.e., your knowledge of your
classmates attitude and psychological makeup versus your knowledge of his
physical appearance.
a. sense knowledge
c. carnal knowledge
b. spiritual knowledge
d. intellectual knowledge
45.
We know that the body is not only an object because it can also be the one
analyzing, not being analyzed; in which case, it is a/n
a. Spatio
c. identity project
b. Temporal
d. Subject
46.
This division of philosophy deals with principles to be practiced. Often
directive, its goal is the application of knowledge.
a. practical philosophy
b. logic
c. speculative philosophy
d.
semantics
47.
Which of the following describes Kierkegaards religious stage of existence?
a. John always spends his day with friends gambling and drinking.
b. John has a good sense of the societys general principles and lives by
them.
c. John volunteers as a missionary to Africa because he felt God is calling
him there.
d. John loves his wife and avoids all temptations because he wants to be
responsible.
48.
Skinner believed that human behavior may be conditioned by a series of
rewards and punishments. This is known as:
a. psychological conditioning
c. operant conditioning
b. psychosomatic conditioning
d. classical conditioning
49.
The study of beauty.
a. Aesthetics
b. Epistemology c. Cosmology
d. Logic
50.
He believed that the man is number in as much as mathematics tends to
elevate mans thoughts from particular things to permanent and universal laws.
a. Thales
c. Anaximenes
b. Anaximander
d. Pythagoras
51.
The science of the universe.
a. Metaphysics
b. axiology
c. cosmology
d.
semantics
52.
This kind of motion separates a living organism from a non-living thing, e.g.,
a motion that starts and ends in one and the same being.
a. Immanent motion b. slow motion
c. fast motion
d. transitive
motion
53.
For Lyotard, the society can counter the effects of commodifying knowledge
by forming their own _______________________, with which they can counter the
hegemonic narrative.
a. knowledge b. metanarrativesc. little narratives
d. ideology
54.
The science of the soul.
a. aesthetics
b. Psychology
c. Theodicy
d. Logic
55.
The science of God.
a. aesthetics
b. Psychology
c. Theodicy
d. Logic
56.
For the postmodern man, the center of his existence is
a. nature
b. God
c. his choices
d. the
here and now
57.
The greatest concern of man as a social being is:
a. his personal existence and those of his love ones
b. the common good or the good of all men in the society
c. the adherence to laws and their implementation that assures order
d. the promulgation of justice and equality in a society that prefers
selfishness
58.
a. Cosmocentric b. Theocentric
c. Anthropocentric
d. Existential
72.
Which of the following describes Kierkegaards moral stage of existence?
a. John always spends his day with friends gambling and drinking.
b. John has a good sense of the societys general principles and lives by
them.
c. John volunteers as a missionary to Africa because he felt God is calling
him there.
d. John loves his wife and avoids all temptations because he wants to be
responsible.
73.
You notice that one of your classmates tends to spread gossip about others.
You start to distance yourself away from him/her because you feel that it is wrong
to spread gossip. Mencius described this feeling as ________________, the beginning
of righteousness.
a. Commiseration
c. Modesty and Yielding
b. Shame and Dislike
d. Right and Wrong
74.
The object of volition is
a. truth
b. wisdom
c. virtue
d. goodness
75.
Based on its etymology, philosophy is the love of _______________.
a. beings
b. wisdom
c. science
d. religion
76.
The science of meaning, this branch of philosophy is concerned about
languages and grammars.
a. Theodicy
b. Metaphysics
c. Semantics
d.
Logic
77.
Which of the following statements is NOT true about the union of the body
and the soul?
a. Any action that goes against mans rationality is against human nature.
b. Man is an ensouled body; that is, he has both physical and spiritual
elements.
c. The body may survive without the soul because he is after all a
biological being.
d. Both the body and soul have their own operations/functions in doing
what is good.
78.
Death is a function of what human limitation?
a. accidental
b. space
c. time
d. sickness
79.
It is the knowing power rooted in the spiritual soul.
a. intellection
b. volition
c. growth
d. reproduction
80.
Baudrillard warns that in the postmodern world, simulation and simulacrum
may fully take center stage making them more real without truly being real, i.e.,
when fiction becomes more real than reality itself. He calls this situation as:
a. simulacrum b. simulation
c. hyperreality
d. metanarratives