Division of City Schools

MASBATE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

MIDTERMS
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF
THE HUMAN PERSON
2nd Semester, 2019-2020

Name: ___________________________ Date: __________ Score: ________

Year & Section: __________________ Mr. Randy Sarmiento

TEST I – MULTIPLE CHOICE. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

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 Filipino attitude as part of life which literally means to leave everything to God which is Bathala?
a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

7. Which is the philosophy of “living in harmony with nature”?

a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

8. Which Filipino value is helping others in times of need?

a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

9. Which is reciprocating debts of gratitude between coordinates and subordinates holds the whole group together?
a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Utang na loob

10. A term that show sharing of one’s self to others?

a. Bahala na b. Bayanihan c. Pakikisama d. Kalooban

11. "Agreement of thought with reality." This is the definition of:

a. Truth b. Belief c. Opinion d. Subjectivism e. Concensus Reality

12. Who determines truth?

a. No one determines truth b. Philosophers
c. Anyone who wants to d. Society collectively determines truth
e. Wise people, like politicians, teachers, and other leaders determine truth

13. An idea is _____________ when they are private, not public.

a. Absolute b. Free form c. Innate d. Objective e. Subjective
14. An act that asserts something to be true or false.
a. Asking a question b. Making judgments c. Doing research d. Subjectivism

15. Acts of the mind that can be objectively true or false.

a. Opinion b. Knowledge c. A lie d. A necessarily true belief

16. That which conveys principles that are true, but are not true in fact is called:
a. Conversational truth b. Poetic truth c. Science d. Philosophy

17. _________________ describes that which never, ever changes.

a. Objective b. Immutable c. Incapable d. Prevenient

18. She said, “People can tell you to keep your mouth shut but that doesn’t stop you from having your own
opinion.”
a. Anne of Arendelle b. Anne Frank c. Anne Nicole d. Anne Curtis

TEST II – TRUTH OR OPINION. Write TRUTH if the statement is true, if otherwise, write OPINION.
___________ 1. Because people were treated differently when the Declaration of Independence was written, we
know that the claim, "All men are created equal" must be relative.
___________ 2. Imagination, as such, is neither true nor false.
___________ 3. "False knowledge" properly describes the situation where what was once believed to be true
turns out to be false, as in, "People used to believe the earth was the center of the universe, so
that was false knowledge."
___________ 4. The term "blind faith" is redundant, because all faith by definition is blind.
___________ 5. There is more than one reality.
___________ 6. "False knowledge" is a contradiction in terms.
___________ 7. There are two aspects to history; Facts and Interpretation.
___________ 8. The words, "In my opinion" show that the claim is subjective.
___________ 9. In class we proved that no claims can be truly objective, because everybody is different.
___________ 10. If you truly believe anything, then it is "true for you".
___________ 11. Truth is discovered, not created.
___________ 12. One opinion is just as good as any other.

TEST III – IDENTIFICATION. Write the correct answer on the space provided.
___________ 1. The type of thinking used when you observe detail by detail and only focuses on small and
specific aspects.
___________ 2. The philosopher who formulated the primary and secondary reflection which can help us
differentiate holistic thinking from partial thinking.
___________ 3. It is something that you look not as a whole, but only a part of it.
___________ 4. The terminology for our five senses.
___________ 5. The type of thinking that is used in philosophizing.
___________ 6. These are used for us not to be deceived by our senses. It is also only limited because not all of
us have it.
___________ 7. The study of ultimate reality, causes, or principles underlying being acquired through the use of
human reason alone.
___________ 8. The idea being conveyed by the combination of the meanings of the two Greek words
___________ 9. The philosopher who invented Philosophy.
___________ 10. It is another point of philosophizing.

TEST IV – ESSAY. State your philosophy in life and explain. (10 points)