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QUESTION
The following are the Branches of Philosophy, except:
Selected
Answer:
A. Rationality
Answers:
A. Rationality
B. Ethics
C. Metaphysics
D. Epistemology
Question 2
The following are the values of Philosophy by Russell,
except:
Selected
Answer:
A. Philosophy assures salvation of man both body
and soul.
Answers:
A. Philosophy assures salvation of man both body
and soul.
B. Philosophy frees us from being “practical man.”
C. Philosophy aims at knowledge—uniting sciences
and critical about them.
D. Philosophy finds meaning of life in times of
uncertainties.
Response
Feedback:
Letter A -Philosophy assures salvation of man both body and
soul is the answer. The word
except
in the questions
eliminates this idea. Philosophy does not talk about
SALVATION. This is not theology.
Question 3
Who asserted that human being is a “rational animal”?
Selected
Answer:
A. The Greek philosopher, Socrates
Answers:
A. The Greek philosopher, Socrates
B. The contemporary American philosopher,
Bertrand Russell
C. The Greek Pre-Socratic thinkers
D. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle
Question 4
It is the process of understanding of reality, that which
philosophers in the past have tried to understand, their concerns
become our concerns and their questions become our questions,
their answers become our answers.
Selected
Answer:
A. Doing philosophy
Answers:
A. Doing philosophy
B. Foundationalism
C. Constructivism
D. Law of Non-
contradiction
Question 5
Philosophy in etymological definition means:
Selected
Answer:
B. Finding the root words of the term philosophy.
Answers:
A. Finding the historical working definition of
philosophy.
B. Finding the root words of the term philosophy.
C. Finding the Aristotelian meaning of philosophy.
D. Finding the common sense meaning of the word
philosophy.
Response
Feedback:
The word "Etymology" means: finding the root words of the
term, in the case of philosophy, LOVE OF WISDOM is the
etymological meaning from its root words: philia and sophia.
Question 6
The following are something what Human Beings have in common with
animals, except:
Selected
Answer:
A. Capacity of Reason
Answers:
A. Capacity of Reason
B. Capacity for procreation.
C. Capacity of sensations.
D. Appetitive Capacity of
survival.
Response
Feedback:
ONLY REASON MAKES MAN RATIONAL. OTHER THAN THAT WE
SHARE WITH ANIMALS.
Question 7
The following are core teaching of Socrates, except:
Selected
Answer:
C. Do unto others you would want others do unto you.
Answers:
A. The Unexamined life is not worth living.
B. The truth lies within each one of us.
C. Do unto others you would want others do unto you.
D. We should strive for excellence in all areas in life.
Question 8
The “Aporia” that one encounters in philosophizing means:
Selected
Answer:
B. Philosophy encounters the seeming difficulty but the
trying to wonder is more important than the
questioning and answering themselves.
Answers:
A. Philosophy is not for you.
B. Philosophy encounters the seeming difficulty but the
trying to wonder is more important than the
questioning and answering themselves.
C. Philosophy is a dogmatic study of ideas.
D. Philosophy has no value in life and “it does not
bake bread.”
Question 9
Which of the following question below is not philosophical in
nature?
Selected
Answer:
A. What is my next meal would
be?
Answers:
A. What is my next meal would
be?
B. What is the purpose of life?
C. Why death comes to life?
D. Does God really exist?
Response
Feedback:
Fundamental Question in philosophy is a radical and universal. Letter A is a
question of survival, but not everyone asked that question, for some they do
not care what to eat for next meal.
Question 10
Which of the following that describes Socrates as Midwife of ideas?
Selected
Answer:
B. That the method of Socrates by questioning bring out ideas from others,
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