DIRECTION: Read each statement or question, select the word or expressions that, of those given, best

completes the statement or answers the question. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.
STRICTLY NO ERASURES! USE CAPITAL LETTERS!

1. According to Aristotle, Happiness is?

a. State of mind c. craft
b. Feeling or sensation d. Activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

2. Aristotle states that if we ask what the highest good of human action is:
a. There is no agreement about the answer c. Nearly everyone agrees that it is happiness
b. Most people agree that is pleasure d. There is no objective answer to this question
3. According to Aristotle, we should begin ethical inquiry by specifying:
a. which things are intrinsically valuable
b. What are our fundamental duties are
c. The aim of human life
d.  What constraints on behavior it would be reasonable to agree to.

4. Eudaimonia implies which of the following?

a. Being fully alive as opposed to merely existing
b. Simply existing, survival, at all costs
c. A life of pleasure
d. That each person defines his or her happiness

5. Which of the following is not a plausible translation of Eudaimonia?

a. Happiness b. Success c. Virtue c. Fulfillment

6. Which of the following is an end to itself?

a. Happiness b. Intelligence c. Virtue d. Honor

7. How should one treat an old friend whom one has long since exceeded in friendship?
a. Remain friend always
b. Remain friend, but not as closely as before
c. Break off the friendship but maintains feeling of goodwill for the old friend
d. Break off all the relations with the old friend

8. When decisions are made by first considering the poor.

a. Preferential option for the poor c. Universal purpose of goods
b. Subsidiarity d. Stewardships of Creation

9. Everyone has the duty to respect and collaborate in personal relationships, and at national and global
levels.
a. Promotion of peace c. Common Good
b. Stewardship of creation d. Participation

10. What does Heidegger say is the purpose of this essay, i.e., what it is meant to prepare?
a. The thinking and questioning about technology is done in order to establish a working
philosophy of technology so it can be better understood.
b. The thinking and questioning about technology is done in order to make technology more useful
to us.
c. The thinking and questioning about technology is done in order to discover our ethical
relationship to technology.
d. The thinking and questioning about technology is done in order to show why technology is not
as vital to life as we think it is.

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11. What is the "anthropological" definition of technology?
a. It is the destructive dangerous power of technology
b. This is one of the terms found in Aristotle's 4-causes that used for "material"
c. A means to an end
d. A human activity

12. What is the "instrumental" definition of technology?

a. It is the destructive dangerous power of technology
b. This is one of the terms found in Aristotle's 4-causes that used for "material"
c. A means to an end
d. Truth as unconcealment or revealing

13. According to Heidegger which of these sentences is correct:

a. There is no relationship between modern technology and science.
b. The developments of modern physics have made possible the developments of modern
technology.
c. Modern science depends on modern technology.
d. Modern technology depends on modern science.

14. Which of these is not one of the three foundational elements of flourishing?
a. The possibility of transformation
b. The innately happy nature of the brain
c. The efficacy of embedded practice
d. The reality of interdependence

15. In our lecture of human flourishing, each person is understood to be…?

a. Totally powerless to change in any way
b. Completely autonomous and independent
c. Deeply embedded in a context formed by society, culture, environment and so on
d. Incapable of flourishing

16. Which of the following statements below takes a” hedonic” approach to flourishing?
a. Flourishing means something more than pleasure, such that one can still flourish in the face of
flourishing
b. Flourishing is impossible
c. Flourishing only comes through fun.
d. Flourishing is all about feeling pleasure.

17. Which of the following statements below would be suitable to an” eudaimonic approach to
Flourishing
a. Flourishing is all about money and power
b. Flourishing is all about feeling of pleasure
c. Flourishing means that one can still be leading a meaningful life even in the face of suffering.
d. Flourishing is impossible

18. How does Heidegger define “enframing”?

a. Standing reserve c. A means to an end
b. A human activity d. controlling everything
19. How does Heidegger say happens to humanity when it becomes Enframed by the essence of
Technology?
a. Humanity can do anything
b. Humanity is trapped
c. Humanity has reached its end
d. Humanity becomes only the ordered of resources

20. There is no demonry of technology, but rather there is the mystery of its essence. The essence of
technology, as a destination of revealing, is the danger”. Pick up the sentence that best describes why
technology is dangerous.
a. Technological stuff is the essence of technology and therefore all technology should be avoided
so that it does not take over our human way of understanding.
b. I should get rid of my cell phone and stop using computers because they are destroying my
human essence

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 c. The essence of technology is dangerous because it is impossible to understand and that is why
we must keep questioning about it.
d. Because of the essence of technology we are only able to see the world and things in one way,
as resources.

21.Based on close reading of the text what seems to be the solution or antidote- what Heidegger calls “
the saving power”- to modern technology that is knowing its essence reveals?
a. More technology and insights c. Art and patience
b. Religion and faith d. Science and Conviction

22. If we allow ourselves to get by modern technology, we lose the essence of who we are being in this
world.
a. saving power c. virtue
b. swallowed d. disciplined

23.A group of scholars who believed that only those which can be observed should be regarded as
meaningful and reject the meaningless.
a. Eudaimonia c. Vienna Circle
b. Science reputation d. Chinese Confucian System

24. Type of wisdom relevant to practical action, implying both good judgment and excellence of
character
and habits, or practical virtue.
a. Phronesis b. Eudaimonia c. Poiesis d. Aletheia

25. They are more focused on individual

a. Eastern Civilization c. Human Flourishing
b. Western Civilization d. Eudaimonia

26. In general, Western attitudes to “emotion” can be based in a contradiction. Choose the two sides of
this contradiction.
1. Without emotions, we would be like cyborgs- biological machine that are not truly
human
2. Emotions motivate us to act
3. Emotions are part of our “lower” aspects that make us more like animals and less like
humans
4. Emotions are inherently expressive

a. A&C b. C & D c. A & D d. B & C

27. It is concealed in enframing as nature is viewed as an orderable and calculable system of

information.
a. Phronesis b Poiesis c. Eudaimonia d. Human
flourishing

28. Disclosure of destiny and of human ___________ are one and the same.
a. essence b. Freedom c. truth d. Poiesi

29. He said that technology is Poiesis that discloses/ reveals the truth
a. Joseph Hickel b. Martin Heidegger c. Aristotle d. Plato

29. What is the difference between technology and modern technology?

a. Technology is a bringing forth while modern technology is a challenging forth
b. Technology is a challenging forth while modern technology is bringing forth
c. Technology is helpful while modern technology is destructive
d. Technology is a never ending cycle of revealing while modern technology is destructive

Test II: MULTIPLE CHOICE: Match column A with column B. Write the letter of your choice on the space
provided before the number. USE CAPITAL LETTERS! STRICTLY NO ERASURES.

Column A Column B

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 1. Man of the World A. literally ‘good spirited’

2. Competition B. more focused on individual

3. Coordination C. View whole as greater than their components

4. Greek Aristotelian view D. Primary instrument in enabling to pursue the

goal

5. Technology E. Four components of to achieve human

flourishing

6. Joseph Hickel F. Economist believed that it is the primary

indicator of development

7. Aletheia G. the way of revealing in modern technology

8. Techne H. coined the term eudaimonia

9. Western Civilization I. Greek word meaning “skill, art or craft”

10. Chinese Confucian system/ Japanese Bushido J. unhiddenness/ disclosure

11. Eastern Civilization K. Greater notion

12. Heidegger L. Humans today are expected to become

13. Growth M. More community centric

14. Phronesis, friendship, wealth and power N. aims for eudaimonia as the ultimate good

15. Calculative thinking O. Developed countries should not push forth more
growth

16. Enframing P. Means of survival has become passé’

17. Flourishing borders R. one orders and puts a system of nature so that it
can be understood better and controlled

18. Good S. He said that technology is a poeisis that

discloses/
reveals the truth

19. Eudaimonia T. Allowed full access to culture

20. Aristotle U. New trend

Corrected by

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