STELLA MARIS COLEGE

HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

Oroquieta City

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

SUMMATIVE TEST
October ___, 2019

Name: _______________________________________________________________ Score: ________

STRAND: ____________________________________________________ P. Score: 40
I. A. ENUMERATION: Give what is asked.
 2 Faculties of the mind
1. Pure Reason 2. Pure Intuition of Space and Time
 Give at least 4 Common Mistakes in Reasoning
3. Hasty Generalization 5. Genetic Fallacy
4. Rationalization 6. Faulty Causal Reasoning
 Give at least 4 Environmental Problems
7. Global Warming 9. Climate Change
8. Pollution 10. El Niño/ La Niña
B. IDENTIFICATION. Identify what is being referred to in each item. Write the letter of your answer on the
space provided before the number.

A. Practical choice F. Instinct K. Conduct P. Ecocentrism

B. Deontological Ethics G. Values L. Hasty Generalization Q. Anthropocentrism

C. Deliberation H. Ethnocentrism M. Moral Decision R. Environmental Ethics

D. Moral Judgments I. Biocentrism N. Utilitarianism S. Genetic Fallacy

E. Intellectual choice J. Panthocentrism O. Moral Reasoning T. Morality

C 1. An act that requires reflection and an exercise of one’s rational capacity in order to make a
decision
F 2. A natural or intuitive way of acting or thinking
D 3.They are used to evaluate situations, courses of action, persons and behavior.
E 4. It is the process of giving normative answers as rational moral beings
G 5. They are priorities with respect to some aspect of human experience.
H 6. The view of things in which one’s group is the center of everything and all others are scales and
rated with reference to it. We impose our notion of what is right to others.
K 7. This refers to deliberate human action.
A 8. The kind of choice that we make when faced with the question “what would I be inclined to do
given this actual situation?”
E 9. The kind of when confronted with the question “what do I ought to do?” where one tends to give
normative answers as a result of his moral reflection
L 10. It is an attempt to make a universal statement using “all” based only on a few cases observed.
R 11. The discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationships of human beings to,
and also the value and moral status of the environment and its non-human contents
Q 12. A human-based ethic arguing that humans possess complete authority over decisions about the
environment

J 13. It refers to the non-humans or the higher forms of animals.

P 14. A view that not only humans and animals, but also plants should be morally considerable
I 15. The ecosystem-centered ethic that regards ecosystems as holistic entities that should be given
moral considerations
O 16. It is a process of examining moral arguments.
N 17. It is the maximization of pleasure and the avoidance of pain in order to promote happiness.
M 18. This is an important class of moral judgments because it has reference to the judge’s own
future action.

II. TRUE OR FALSE. On the space provided, write the word YES if the statement is true
and NO if it is false.

NO 19. The dictum, “ the end justify the means” is used in Deontological Ethics
NO 20. Teleological Ethics is based on duty.
YES 21. Freedom is assumed when one is making his choices and is the agent that is taking full
responsibility in planning his life.
YES 22. Ethics is a branch of philosophy that deals with the systematic questioning and critical
examination of the underlying principles of morality.
YES 23. Genetic fallacy usually happens when one is trying to dismiss the view of another based
solely on the basis of its origin.
YES 24. Pure reason provides the a priori (or prior to experience) source of knowledge which
contains the structure of our mind as human beings.
NO 25. The most popular form of teleological reasoning is based on duty and the categorical
imperative.
NO 26. Teleological ethics presumes that “actions are thought to have no intrinsic value in their own
right.
NO 27. Rationalization is not a form of self-deception and inconsistency.
YES 28. A value becomes a moral value when they become unlimited priorities in its scope of
relevance in our life.

III. EXPLANATION. Answer the questions briefly and concisely.

What are some of your personal action point regarding the problems that our environment faces
nowadays?