FINAL EXAM

PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

Name: ___________________________ Score: ____________
Date: _____________

_____1. Which of the following is not one of the three ordinary meanings of philosophy.
a. ideas, views, principles, perspectives or beliefs c. an academic course of degree
b. the activity of reasoning d. a defensive strategy
_____2. Which of the following is NOT true?
a. Philosophy distinguishes between correct and incorrect forms of reasoning only for the purpose of knowing what is true.
b. Philosophy deals with ideas, beliefs, and principles when they serve as frameworks or bases for interpreting or making judgments
about the world.
c. Philosophy is an academic course only about the nature of morality, knowledge and social justice.
d. Philosophy is an activity that we can do in various aspects of our life rather than as a mere set of theories that we can study.
_____3. Which of the following words means “wisdom”?
a. philo b. sophia c. kritikos d. motus
_____4. Who among the following is a sophist?
a. Pytagoras b. Plato c. Socrates d. Protagoras
_____5. Choose one that is NOT a trait of a wise person.
a. A wise person is one who is aware of what he knows and what he does not know.
b. A wise person hold beliefs that are not only true but which he can also justify.
c. A wise person knows a lot about things that are valuable in life.
d. A wise person believes claims firmly even if it is not yet justified.
_____6. Choose the one that is NOT considered a framework question.
a. What are the causes of earthquakes? c. What are numbers?
b. What is the nature of causation? d. Is Pedro free to use public funds for his personal use?
_____7. The following are features of philosophy except one.
a. creative b. critical c. dynamic d. foundational
_____8. Choose one of the major achievements of philosophy.
a. Philosophy does not provide definite answers.
b. Philosophy is impractical.
c. Philosophy examines whether questions can be given definite answers.
d. Philosophy provides ethical guidelines for the use of technology.
_____9. Choose one of the charges of futility to philosophy.
a. Philosophy does not provide ethical guidelines for the use of technology.
b. Philosophy does not provide definite answers.
c. Philosophy does not examine whether questions can be given definite answers.
d. Philosophy does not contribute to social transformation.
_____10. Choose one of the replies of futility to philosophy.
a. Philosophy contributes to social transformation.
b. Philosophy examines whether questions can be given definite answers.
c. Philosophy provides definite answers.
d. Philosophy provides ethical guidelines for the use of technology.
_____11. It refers to a linguistic expression whose function is to advance a claim about the world.
a. proposition b. belief c. statement d. fact
_____12. They are mental expressions of our claims.
a. proposition b. belief c. statement d. fact
_____13. It is something that occurs in the world and it is what makes a certain statement true.
a. sentences b. belief c. fact d. proposition
_____14. According to this method of truth, we can know whether a statement/belief is true by examining whether the statement/belief
coheres with the rules of the relevant system.
a. coherence b. pragmatism c. correspondence d. general
_____15. The statement “The sky is blue” is true because it represents or corresponds to the fact that the sky is blue; while the statement
“Water is not wet” is false because it does not correspond to a fact as there is no form of water that is not wet. What method of truth is
displayed in these examples?
a. pragmatism b. general c. correspondence d. coherence
_____16. The statement “A square has four sides” is true because being a definition it coheres with the rules of language (or language of
geometry, to be specific). What method of truth is displayed in these examples?
a. coherence b. correspondence c. general d. pragmatism
_____17. It is the method used to check if an empirical statement, a statement about an observable fact in the world, correctly represents a
fact in the world.
a. observation b. reasoning c. intuition d. authority
_____18. It is the process of knowing or establishing truth by means of our reason, can be done in variety of ways.
a. belief b. truth c. justification d. statement
_____19. Which of the following is not one of the three conditions for knowledge to occur?
 a. observation b. reasoning c. intuition d. authority
_____20. These views explains what essentially makes up a human person except:
a. disembodied spirit view b. embodied spirit view c. unbodied spirit view d. unspirited body view
_____21. Complete the sentence: A human person is ideally alongside mere objects or nonhumans, and ____ his/her fellow human persons.
a. with b. in c. along d. inside
_____22. It is a unity formed by the present, past and future.
a. reality b. facticity c. existentiality d. fallenness
_____23. It refers to everything about the existence of a human person that can no longer be changed.
a. reality b. facticity c. existentiality d. fallenness
_____24. It refers to all the possibilities that a human person has and can choose to have.
a. reality b. facticity c. existentiality d. fallenness
_____25. It is the present of the human person.
a. reality b. facticity c. existentiality d. fallenness
_____26. Choose the one that defines inherent intentionality.
a. intentionality of consciousness c. intentionality that we attribute to machines
b. intentionality of language, maps, and signs d. intentionality that is derived
_____27. It enables plants to perform activities necessary for nourishment, growth, and reproduction.
a. vegetative soul b. nutritive soul c. sensitive soul d. rational soul
_____28. It enables animals to perform the activities necessary for nourishment, growth, reproduction, sensation and locomotion.
a. vegetative soul b. nutritive soul c. sensitive soul d. rational soul
_____29. It enables humans to perform activities necessary for nourishment, growth, reproduction, sensation, locomotion, intelligence or
rational thinking and freedom or free will.
a. vegetative soul b. nutritive soul c. sensitive soul d. rational soul
_____30. Who among the following supports the embodied spirit view?
a. Plato b. Descartes c. Aristotle d. Aquinas
_____31. What view on the mind and soul did Plato propose?
a. unspirited view b. disembodied spirit view c. embodied spirit view d. body and spirit view
_____32. Which means the same as compatibilism?
a. hard determinism b. libertarianism c. soft determinism d. determinism
_____33. Which does not explain treating the other person as a person on theoretical level?
a. We consider how the person sees, perceives, understands, or knows the other person in relation to his/her concepts and categories.
b. It results in seeing the other person either as a subject.
c. It results in seeing the other person either as an object.
d. We see the person as something that is unconscious and unfree
_____34. These are entitlements or interests one is allowed as permitted to pursue, or more simply, things one may or may not do.
a. Duties b. Obligations c. Rights d. Accountability
_____35. The following are normative ethics except:
a. Consequentialism b. Deontology c. Virtue ethics d. Applied ethics

TEST II. Match items in column A with those of column B.

_____1.statements and beliefs A. bearers of truth
_____2.empirical truth B. established by sense experience
_____3.rational truth C. established by reason
_____4.universal truth D. acknowledged to be true by everyone
_____5.subjective truth E. dependent on the attitudes, preferences, or interests of a
_____6.private truth person or a group of persons
_____7.necessary truth F. can be known only by the person who has the belief or makes
_____8.a priori truth the statement
_____9.synthetic truth G. true in all possible situations
_____10. probable truth H. can be known before any relevant experience
I. extends knowledge
J. arrived at through inductive reasoning

TEST III. Write the letter of the fallacy represented by the following situations.

All laws should be respected and obeyed. The law of gravity is a law. Therefore, the law of gravity should be respected and obeyed.
Every part of this machine is light in weight. Therefore the whole machine is light in weight.
Filipino cultural minorities are disappearing. Juan is a Filipino cultural minority. Therefore, Juan is disappearing.
Mental telepathy must be accepted as a fact, for nobody has proven that it is impossible.
 We should vote for this candidate for he is endorsed by our favorite basketball player.
She cannot be a good president for she comes from a broken family.
This man certainly deserves a promotion for he can hardly feed his starving family.
We should drink this brand of beer, for it is the regular drink of successful men after a hard day’s work.
It is your duty to pledge the allegiance to this constitution, for otherwise rebellion charges will be filed against you.
A lawyer who wants to establish that person A is beating his child asks this question, “Have you stopped beating your child?”

A. The fallacy of appeal to force F. The fallacy of argument from ignorance

B. The fallacy of appeal to pity G. The fallacy of complex questions
C. The fallacy of appeal to popular will H. The fallacy of composition
D. The fallacy of appeal to the inappropriate authority I. The fallacy of division
E. The fallacy of appeal to the person J. The fallacy of equivocation

TEST IV. Complete the table but writing the letter of your choice in the box next to the number.

A. Congent 2 Types of
B. Deductive Reasoning Reasoning
C. Inductive Reasoning
D. Invalid 1. 5.
E. Sound
F. Strong
G. Uncongent 2. 5. 6. 9.
H. Unsound
I. Valid
J. Weak 3. 4. 7. 8.

TEST V. Write TRUE if the statement is correct. Otherwise, write FALSE.

_____1. The character of utility means that things appear to the human person merely as a form of equipment or instrument, or as
things that the human person can use either for his/her practical purposes or for his/her theoretical contemplation.
_____2. Fallenness is the state a human person is in when she/he lives an inauthentic existence.
_____3. Social freedom is the absence of force, constraints, or anything that makes a person act against his/her will or desire.
_____4. Free will or the power of the mind to freely come up with mental states and processes and to freely cause the body to perform
actions.
_____5. Responsibility as agency refers to the sense of “responsibility” in which being responsible means holding certain duties or
obligations.