St.

Mary’s College of Catbalogan

(Formerly Sacred Heart College)
Corner Mabini & Del Rosario Streets, Catbalogan City 6700
Telefax: (055) 543-8192 Email: smccshc@gmail.com
Website: www.smcc.edu.ph
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High School Department
THIRD PERIODICAL TEST IN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
SECOND SEMESTER
S.Y. 2019-2020

Name: ___________________________________________ Grade & Section: ________________ Score: _______

Teacher: Ma. Magdalena A, Bianes Date: _____________________

TEST I- MULTIPLE CHOICE. DIRECTION: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on the space
before the item. Write your answer in CAPITAL LETTER .

_____1. What is originally meant “love of wisdom”?

a. Philosophy b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
_____2. What is the branch of philosophy that explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates
human action?
a. Philosophy b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
_____3. Which deals with nature, sources, limitations and validity of knowledge?
a. Metaphysics b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
_____4. What is the science of the beautiful in its various manifestations?
a. Philosophy b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
_____5. What is really only an extension of a fundamental and necessary drive in every human being
to know what is real?
a. Metaphysics b. Ethics c. Epistemology d. Aesthetics
_____6. The method of philosophy in its search for the ultimate explanation of thing
a. empirical method b. rational inquiry c. skepticism d. none
____7. He believed in the rebirth if the soul in other bodies
a. Protagoras b. Pythias c. Socrates d. Pythagoras
____8. Agnosticism is
a. not believing in God b. everything is impossible c. not sure of anything d. none of the above
____9. He expounded the four kinds of causes
a. Plato b. Aristotle c. Socrates d. Aquinas
____10. This rationality presupposes an active rationality; hence, this put forward an advanced activity of one’s
consciousness or mental state
a. Reflexive Rationality b. Reflective Rationality
c. Philosophical Rationality d. Superficial Rationality

TEST II. IDENTIFICATION. Identify what is asked in the following statements. Write your answers
on the space before each number.

__________________1. Philosophical doctrine that questions our cognitive achievements, challenging our
ability
to obtain reliable knowledge.
__________________2. Seeks to understand the origin, evolution, structure, and ultimate fate of the universe at
large, as well as the natural laws that keep it in order.
__________________3. It is a branch of philosophy which often looks to stable reference points in its own
history,
as well as calling on knowledge of the various arts and sensibility to wider philosophical
issues.
__________________4. Traditionally, a branch of metaphysics dealing with features of the world as a whole,
though the term can also be synonymous with speculative philosophy.
__________________5. Existential philosopher who provided us with the popular statement ‘existence precedes
essence.’
__________________6. He presented the idea of mind as a principle philosophical explanation.
__________________7. Seeks to address questions about morality.
__________________ 8. Seeing things in all perspective.
__________________9. Investigation into what types of things there are in the world and what relations these
things bear to one another.
__________________10. Study of concepts such as liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of
a
legal code by authority.

TEST III. ESSAY. Answer the following questions briefly. Each question is worth 10 points. You will be rated
using the following criteria: 5 pts-content, 3 points brevity/conciseness, 2 mechanics.

1. Are we pushing the responsibility for our existence on to society, instead of facing the questions of who we
are? Explain.
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2. “The unexamined life is not worth living….” Explain this quote.

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3. What is your philosophy in life? Explain.

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Good Luck 

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Parent’s Signature Date