First Quarter Exam

Introduction to Philosophy of the Human Person

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Environmental ethics is a branch of applied philosophy that studies the conceptual foundations of
environmental values

Select one:

True

In the context of philosophy of language, this refers to the position that sentences have meaning that
are independent of their relations to other sentences or beliefs.

Select one:
a. Context principle
b. Atomism
c. Epistemological reductionism

d. Semantic holism

The "Deep Ecology Movement" subscribes to anthropocentric environmentalism.

Select one:
True

False

What is the other term used for epistemological holism?

Select one:
a. materialism
b. confirmation
c. semantic

d. ontological
The number of steps involved in Graham Gibbs' full structured debriefing.

Select one:
a. 7
b. 8
c. 5

d. 6
Sheila Collins emphasized the importance of feminism to the environmental movement and various
other liberation movements, arguing that the domination of women by men is historically the original
form of domination in human society.

Select one:
True

False
IDENTIFICATION:
He referred to wisdom as "the right use of knowledge."

Answer: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

IDENTIFICATION:
According to Confucius, this is "the bitterest way" to acquire wisdom.

Answer: EXPERIENCE
Lynn White sees religion as the basis of environmental stewardship.

Select one:
True

False
What is the Greek term for "wisdom?"

Select one:
a. philos
b. Athena

c. sophia
This is where the circumstances must be weighed to determine the correct action.

Select one:
a. prudential judgment
b. circumspection

c. caution
IDENTIFICATION:
The personification of wisdom among ancient Romans

Answer: MINERVA
This integral part of prudence refers to the understanding of first principles.

Select one:
a. intelligentia
b. foresight

c. memoria
Which of these is not a proposition under the deep ecology principle?

Select one:
a. simple living
b. human population control

c. no correct answer
IDENTIFICATION:
Aldo Leopold wrote this book in 1949 which emphasized the importance of giving importance to land
as an entity.

Answer: A Sand County Almanac

He is the philosopher who formulated the so-called "context principle" in semantic holism.

Select one:
a. W.V.O. Quine
b. Gottlob Frege
c. Ludwig Wittgenstein

d. Donald Davidson
Environmentalism is the position that humans are the most important or critical element in any given
situation; that the human race must always be its own primary concern.

Select one:
True

False
His "looking out" notion in reflective practice was inspired by the work of Barbara Carper's
fundamental ways of knowing.

Select one:
a. Donald Schon
b. Chris Argyris
c. Christopher Johns

d. none of the choices

In this book, Aristotle maintains that nature has made all things specifically for the sake of man and
that the value of non-human things in nature is merely instrumental.

Select one:
a. Metaphysics
b. Politics

c. Sophist
IDENTIFICATION:
A statement that expresses someone's belief, view, or judgment about something/someone.

Answer: Opinion
Moralism proposes to understand morality and assess the ethical quality of actions.

Select one:
True

False
In W.V.O Quine's name, "O" stands for what?

Select one:
a. Orman
b. Orville
c. Owen

d. Oscar
What is the Greek term for "all" or "total"?

Select one:
a. Holos
b. Integrum
c. Acheveé

d. Completare
Consequentialist ethical theories maintain that whether an action is right or wrong is for often
independent of whether its consequences are good or bad.

Select one:
 True

False
According to Peter Vardy, weak anthropocentrism argues that humans are at the center of reality and
it is right for them to be so.

Select one:
True

False
Environmental ethics refers to the crucial role of ethics in the study of relation of human beings and
the environment.

Select one:
False

True
James Lovelock's "Gaia Hypothesis" states that "the planet earth alters its geo-physiological
structure over time in order to ensure the continuation of an equilibrium of evolving organic and
inorganic matter."

Select one:
False

True
Anthropocentric environmentalism is concerned with the conservation of the environment only for
exploitation by and for human purposes.

Select one:
True

False
Tom Regan introduced the so-called "non-identity problem," which states that we do not have
obligations to future people because there is no definitive group of individuals to whom such
obligations are owed.

Select one:
True

False
According to Arne Naess and George Sessions, humans have the ultimate right to reduce the
richness of other life forms to satisfy the vital needs of the former.

Select one:
False

True
He posits the uniqueness of all animals and broadens the scope of the moral obligation of care to
include all individual beings

Select one:
a. Marti Kheel
b. Rita Manning

c. Josephine Donovan
He developed the concept of transcendental? Philosophy which he liberated from the convergence
of neo-Kantianism.

Select one:
a. Carl Zimmer
b. David Hume
c. Harald Holz

d. Jean-Paul Sartre
The principle of holism was summarized in "Metaphysics", written by which philosopher?

Select one:
a. Friedrich Nietzsche
b. Socrates
c. Aristotle

d. Plato
Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical "Laudato si'" critiques consumerism, environmental degradation, and
global warming.

Select one:
True

False
Known as the "father of phenomenology"

Answer: Edmund Husserl

In Cartesian philosophy, the integral parts of prudence are the elements that must be present for any
complete or perfect act of the virtue.

Select one:
True

False
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, prudence begins with an understanding of the first principles of
practical reason, also known as?

Select one:
a. synderesis
b. solertia

c. providentia
IDENTIFICATION:
In this book, wisdom was defined as the understanding of causes.

Answer: Metaphysics
Solertia is the Latin term for shrewdness, which is an integral part of prudence.

Select one:
True

False
Which of these is not an integral part of prudence?

Select one:
a. wisdom
b. shrewdness

c. docilitas
His book "Heaven and Hell" gives a detailed description of the afterlife, how people live after
the death of the physical body.

Select one:
a. Jean-Paul Sartre
b. Emanuel Swedenborg
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson

d. George Putnam
This philosophical movement arose to protest against the general state ?of intellectualism and
spirituality during the late 1820's.

Select one:
a. German Idealism
b. transcendentalism
c. stoicism

d. mysticism
It is used in phenomenology to refer to the terminus of an intention as given for consciousness.

Select one:
a. transcendence
b. intentionality
c. stoicism

d. noema
What kind of holism states that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an
empirical test, but only a set of statements?

Select one:
a. total holism
b. semantic holism
c. confirmation holism

d. philosophy of language
The philosopher who introduced the term "transcendental" to better explain the possibility of being
beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge

Answer;anaxemander
Ecologic extension focuses only on the worth of the environment in terms of its utility or usefulness
to humans.

Select one:
True

False
The word "transcendence" comes from the Latin term "transcendere" which mean what?

Select one:
a. to go beyond
b. mystic
c. ultimate

d. eternal
This book written by Immanuel Kant was used to argue for a deep interconnection between the
ability to have self-consciousness and experience a world of objects.

Select one:
a. Critique of Pure Reason
b. no correct answer
c. Being and Nothingness

d. Transcendental Deduction of the Categories

Which is not true about opinions?

Select one:
a. They do not have to be based on logical reasoning.
b. Opinions are based on beliefs and feelings.

c. They are statements of actuality and experience.

Good judgment is an integral part of prudence.

Select one:
True

False