Philosophical Anthro Quiz Ch 1

What is the main focus of Philosophical anthropology?

• Study of animals

• Study of metaphysics and phenomenology of the human person

• Study of outer space

• Study of plants

According to the text, what is the human person considered in Indian philosophy?

• A machine

• A deha in dehin

• A robot

• A computer

What is the approach used to understand the mystery of the human person in the text?

• Astrology

• Phenomenology and Critical Hermeneutic

• Scientific method

• Guesswork

Who among the ancient Greek philosophers was concerned about the human being?

• Socrates

• Plotinus

• Aristotle

• Plato

What did Plato argue for regarding the soul of the human being?

• It is not worth examining

• It is corruptible

• It is mortal

• It is imprisoned in the body

What is the new understanding of the human being with the modern philosophers?

• cosmocentrism

• Anthropocentrism

• Theo-centrism

• Materialism

Who speculated on sin, evil, liberty, the person, self-transcendence, etc. in the text?

• Aristotle

• St Augustine

• St Thomas

• Plato

What did St Thomas believe about the soul of the human being?

• It is corruptible

• It is imprisoned in the body

• It is mortal

• It is immortal

What is the role of the soul according to Aristotle in the text?

• It is mortal

• It carries out the role of the form

• It is corruptible

• It is imprisoned in the body

What is the method used in understanding the mystery of the human according to the text?

• Astrology

• Guesswork

• Phenomenological and Critical Hermeneutic

• Laboratory techniques