Colegio De La Salle Fondation De Tacloban Inc.

Real St. Sagkahan, Tacloban City

1ST QUARTERLY TEST IN PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
Name: ________________________Section: ______ Date and Time: ______________
Score: _______ Professor: ____________________ Admission Slip Number:_______

I - MULTIPLE CHOICE:
A. Determine the relation between the given statement and choices then write the letters
only of the correct answer in CAPITAL. Class Discussion on An Embodied Spirit Coexisting
with the Environment and Being-with-others: Life in Society and Inter subjectivity.
1. Man is always more than what he knows about himself.
a. Karl Jaspers b. Jose Rizal c. Immanuel Kant d. Rene Descartes e. St. Thomas
2. I am something real really existing, but what am I? A thing which thinks.
a. Karl Jaspers b. Jose Rizal c. Immanuel Kant d. Rene Descartes e. St. Thomas
3. Human person has the responsibility of respecting other people.
a. Karl Jaspers b. Jose Rizal c. Immanuel Kant d. Rene Descartes e. St. Thomas
4. There is disharmony among human beings because one does not recognize the reason of the
other.
a. Karl Jaspers b. Jose Rizal c. Immanuel Kant d. Rene Descartes e. St. Thomas
5. The body and soul are not two entities but one being made up of matter and form.
a. Karl Jaspers b. Jose Rizal c. Immanuel Kant d. Rene Descartes e. St. Thomas
6. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we begin to use it with love and care.
a. Florentino Timbreza
b. Aldo Leopoldo
c. St. Augustine
d. Leonardo Mercado
e. David Abram
7. A community that lives in a mutually beneficial relation with the surrounding earth is a
community that lives in truth.
a. Florentino Timbreza
b. Aldo Leopoldo
c. St. Augustine
d. Leonardo Mercado
e. David Abram
8. Natural environment symbolizes a possible encounter with the Divine.
a. Florentino Timbreza
b. Aldo Leopoldo
c. St. Augustine
d. Leonardo Mercado
e. David Abram
9. Human being has the responsibility to take care, protect and cultivate his/her potentialities,
faculties, and functions.
a. Florentino Timbreza
b. Aldo Leopoldo
c. St. Augustine
d. Leonardo Mercado
e. David Abram
10. Human being bears and reveals the divine image of the Creator.
a. Florentino Timbreza
b. Aldo Leopoldo
c. St. Augustine
d. Leonardo Mercado
e. David Abram
PART 11. A. Read each sentence and determine if it manifests Truth. If it does, write MT;
otherwise, write NT.
1. Karl Jaspers believed that human being is always in concrete situations.
2. Some questions about ourselves have no relation at all with our present situation.
3. Courage is one of the properties of the human spirit.
4. The problem of relationship of our body and soul began in medieval period.
5. Rene Descartes was the one who claimed that human being is that which doubts, which
understands, or which conceives.
6. The experience of oneness of my body and I does not manifest in the claim, “I have my
Body.”
7. Human being is aware of his finitude because of his/her body.
8. Human being encounters and interprets the world through his/her body.
9. My body does not manifest my existential presence in the community or in the family.
10. My body and I are one in the act of expressing.
11. The kind of relationship that you establish with the environment depends on how you
perceive it.
12. Because you are endowed with freedom, you are entitled to use the environment as a
commodity or property.
13. As a human being, you have the right and power to determine the value of the
environment.
14. Before you do something to the environment, you have to recognize and experience the
intrinsic value of it.
15. It is not possible to establish a genuine communication with the environment (e.g.
rivers, mountains, or tress).
16. The existence of the state is a product of human conventions.
17. Humans are rational beings.
18. The state comes before the family and the individual.
19. The realization of a person’s rationality is found in the state.
20. A human person’s capacity for speech is a proof that he/she is a political being.
21. Gabriel marcel Claims that the body has its own uniqueness, nobility and beauty.
22. Karl Jasper believes that my encounter with the world happens through my body.
23. Gabriel Marcel was the one who said that the central basis for reflection on i-existence
relationship is my body.
24. “I have a Body” unveils the true union between I and my body.
25. John Locke upholds that my body is like other things that can be manipulated.
B. Read the statement, then determine its truthfulness. If the statement manifests truth,
write I agree; otherwise write I do not agree.

26. There is no problem at all if the environment is considered as one of the objects that I
Encounter every day in existence.
27. The environment has its own shield to protect itself which humans cannot totally see
through the lens of science.
28. Coexistence between humans and environment is just a utopic vision of come
environmentalists.
29. Specific parts of the environment such as rivers and tress cannot communicate at all
with humans.
30. Every time a person does harm, to the environment, he/she does at the same time harm
him/herself.

PART III - A: Read and Matc the phrases or words in column A with the phrases and words in
column B. then, determine and establish the realation between the phrases and words in
column A and B.
 A B
1. The Body is seen as an Object A. Karl Jaspers
To be studied like other objects B. Gabriel Marcel
2. I cannot totally know my body. C. St. Thomas
3. I have my body. D. First level of reflection
4. I am a body E. aspect of mystery
5. I encounter the Transcendence F. Existential Union
Through my body. G. Implies possession

B: Analyze and identify human responsibilities toward the environment and sources of
noncoexistence with the environment. Choose your answer from the box.

 Profit
 Human development and progress
 Human’s absolute claim of authority
 Cultivate a sense of stewardship
 Recognizing environment’s own
consciousness
 The environment is a commodity
 Human Reason

1. Two most vital human responsibilities toward the environment

2. Three main sources of noncoexistence with the environment

IV - Essay: Answer briefly the following questions. The following criteria in giving points: 4
points for the content; 4 points for the organization of thoughts; and 2 points for the
readability of handwriting.
1. If a younger person would ask you about the relation between his/her body and soul,
how would you explain to him/her?
2. If it is through your body that you reveal your being and encounter the world, how do
you deal with it?
3. What is it in the community that can help you cultivate your own self-being?
4. Base on your observation or experience, how do people of today relate with the
environment?
5. Do you think the people have a natural right to revolt against an oppressive
government?

Dr. DOMINGO M. ESTOLA, JR.

Professor
Answer key:
1. A
2. D
3. C
4. B
5. E
6. B
7. E
8. D
9. A
10. C

II - True or False:
1. MT
2. NT
3. MT
4. NT
5. MT
6. NT
7. MT
8. NT
9. NT
10. MT
11. MT
12. NT
13. NT
14. MT
15. NT
16. NT
17. MT
18. NT
19. MT
20. MT
21. MT
22. NT
23. MT
24. NT
25. NT
B - I DO NOT AGREE OR I AGREE
26. I D N A
27. I A
28. I D N A
29. I D N A
30. I A

III – A. Matching Type:

1A
2. D
3. G
4. F
5. B

B.
 6. Recognizing environment’s own consciousness
7. Cultivate a sense of stewardship
8. Human’s claim of absolute authority
9. Profit
10. The environment is a commodity

V. Essay. (10points each) 50 items