Introduction of Philosophy of the Human Person

1. Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person
SECOND QUARTER EXAMINATION
Test I-Multiple Choice
Directions: Read the statement carefully and write your answer on your answer sheet. Do not write anything on
this test paper.
1. Ms. Arzaga gave her class an essay test. One item asks: “Explain your position on the death penalty issues.”
As a student, what should be your response?
a. Knowledge and opinion about life and values
b. unconscious motives about the value of life
c. Their actions pertaining to the value of life
d. Motives and plans about the issue
2. When does “Kanya kanya syndrome become positive”?
a. When one can discern what he likes in life
b. When the benefit of others is viewed as one’s loss
c. When one protects individual interests
d. When one becomes self-reliant manifested in self-confidence
3. Which can best demonstrate civic consciousness?
a. Proud to be Pinoy c.Technology transfer
B. Paying Taxes d. Waste disposal awareness
4. Which is the value that regards others with dignity and respect?
a. Sensitivity c. pakikipagkapwa
b. faith and religiosity d. Flexibility and adaptability
5. Which of the following best shows the weakness of familism?
a. Family centeredness c. Loyalty to the family
b. Patronage and political dynasties d. Concern for family
6. Which of the following individuals does not exhibit vulnerability to corruption?
a. corporate leader who bribes in public bidding
b. a political leader who resorts to vote buying
c. A waiter who reports a lost item to authority
d. A public employee who neglects his duty
7. Filipinos have the ability to survive. Which does not show this trait?
a. basic optimism and flexibility c. Deep faith in God
b.tolerance for violation of human rights d. Endure despite difficult times
8. The supreme and overarching value that characterizes a human person is
a. Global spirituality c. Truth and Goodness
b. Human dignity d. Love and tolerance
9. Economic efficiency as a value is least encouraged by:
a. a deep sense of work ethic
b. an accelerated productivity through vocational efficiency
c. The use of capital for family enterprises
d. A self-reliant and independent national economy
10. The philosophy of the human person is of incalculable value. This means that:
a. Every person has limitless potentials and that he/she is born to actualize himself/herself
b. The human person has a spirit that never dies
c, The human person’s mind can infinitely think of anything beyond imagination
d. There is no price that commensurate a person’s life and dignity.
11. Societal change requires continually deep-seated questions about good living. Which of these did Socrates
recognize as the greatest of the human virtues?.
a. Moral Wisdom c. Courage
b. Fair Justice d. Piety
12. In what era wherein the medieval period occured?
a. 500-1500 c. 1500-1800

2. b. 150-500 d. 500-1800
13. It refers to a companionship or friendly association with others, an alliance, a community or a union.
a. Friendship c. social life
b. Society d. community
14. This society uses machinery in producing goods and services.
a. Agrarian society c. industrial society
b. Feudal society d. hunting society
15. The earliest and simplest form of society.
a. Virtual society c. industrial society
b. Feudal society d. hunting and gathering society
16. These are actions or things that are considered important by society.
a. Values c. lovers
b. Normes d. cares
17. In the middle age the way of life is called feudalism, which comes from the Latin medieval feudum means;
a. Property or posesion c. priority or possetion
b. Property or possession d. priority or position
18. “I do not seek insight of reason in order to believe. I believe in order to gain insight. Indeed, I also believe
this; that I should never be able to attain insight if I did not believe.” This quote said by;
a. St. Augustine c. St. Anselm
b. St. Thomas Aquinas d. St. Bonaventure
19. He is a philosopher who posted 95 theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg and initiated the
reformation.
a. John Locke c. Christopher Columbus
b. Leonardo Da Vinci d. Martin Luther
20. It is the inner structure of the human spirit that merely express itself in the visible nature about us.
a. Critical idealism c. empiricism
b. naturalism d. thinking
21. Change as a Condition of Modern life are the following, except;
a. On friendship & new knowledge c. economic sphere & social realm
b. Globalization & modernization d. technology & policy making
22. This complex and interrelated series of changes in humanity’s way of life is generally known as;
a. Process c. Modernization
b. Continuation d. Inventions
23. For him:_“Knowing and accepting ourselves are important ingredients in establishing boundaries”. The
author believes that whatever path we will tread, our choices should ultimately be based on our genuine
freedom. Who is this philosopher?
a. Joaquin b. Chalita c. Miller d. Carol
24. Who is the philosopher who believes in actuality and potentiality that constitute change in life?
a.Aristotle b.Socrates c.Plato d.Gabriel Marcel
25.One of the structure of care that humanity flees from the disclosure of anxiety to lose oneself in the
absorption with the instrumental world.
a.fallenness b.facticity c.possibility d.none of the above

3. 26. Marcel’s Phenomenological Method looks at the world or at any object as a problem, detached from the self
and fragment.
a.Primary Reflection b.Secondary Reflection
c.possibility d.facticity
27. For him, contemplation of the mind means that mind is in communion with the universal and external ideas.
a.Aristotle b.Plato c.Socrates d.Karl Jasper
28. The dualism of Sartre that signifies the permeable and dense, silent, and dead.
a.POUR-SOI(for itself) c.EN-SOI/POUR-SOI
b.EN-SOI(in itself d.None of the above)
29. Who among the philosophers resolutely opposed Nazism?He is one of the very fear Christians intellectuals
in Germany(1883-1968)?
a.Martin Heidegger c.Karl Jaspers
b.Arthur Schopenhauer d.Jean Paul Sartre
30. What is Marcel’s method that looks at the world with openness?
a.Secondary Reflection c.Primary Reflection
b.Possibility d.Facticity
31.Who among the philosophers who believes Philosophy has the tension(the essense of drama) and the
harmony(that is the essense of music.)
a.Gabriel Marcel c.Karl Jaspers
b.Jean Paul Sartre d.Aristotle
32.In his analysis,human existence is exhibited in care.
a.Martin Heidegger c.Arthur Schopenhauer
b.Friedrich Nietzsche d.Plato
33.For Him,the WILL is neither peculiar to human agents,nor does each agent have his or her own will.
a.Plato c.Arthur Schopenhauer
b.Friedrich Nietzsche d.Aristotle
34.Sartre’s dualism that the world only has a meaning according to what the person gives to it?
a.facticity c.POUR-SOI(for itself)
b.EN-SOI(in-itself) d.Possibility
35. Who among the Philosophers discussed considers WILL as being grounded in our life and has no purpose?
a.Arthur Schopenhauer c.Friedrich Nietzsche
b.Martin Heidegger d.Jean Paul Sartre
Test III-Identification
Directions: Write T if the statement is correct and F if it is wrong.
T 36. Man has the natural tendency to establish relationships with other people.
F 37. We are primarily aware of people as objects and not as persons.
F 38. The views and ideas of other people, as well as social context, do not influence our behaviour as
individuals.
T 39. Intersubjectivity refers to shared awareness and understanding among people.
F 40. “Seeming” refers to the capacity of individuals to engage in genuine interaction with others.
T 41. An authentic relationship is possible only if individuals acknowledge each other’s presence as persons.
T 42. Availability refers to the willingness of a person to make himself or herself available for another.

4. F 43. All humans find it difficult to have meaningful relationships with others.
T 44. Emphathy requires an individual to accept the other as a thinking, feeling person.
F 45. Ethics of care believes that persons help one another because of their selfish interests.
Test IV-Scrambled Terms
Directions: Rearrange the scrambled term which signify the definition given underlined statements.
Dialogue 46. A deep and genuine relationship between persons is called odegialu.
Alienation 47. oliaiaten refers to a state when a person ceases to view the other as a distinct and authentic
person. Rather, the person considers others as merely objects or means to satisfy personal interests or
desires.
Death 48. atdeh is the end of bodily functions which signals the end of a person’s life. It also refers to the
separation of the body and soul.
Suffering 49. ingffersu takes place when we patiently endure unpleasantness, discomfort and pain. It can be
experienced physically or mentally.
Moral freedom 50. aomrl omdeefr refers to using freedom in a manner that upholds human dignity and
goodness.
“An unexamined life is not worth living”-Socrates
-Godspeed-