Preliminary Examination

1. He was a Greek mathematician and also philosopher who coined the word philosophy.

• A. SOCRATES

• B. PLATO

• C. ARISTOTLE

• D. PYTHAGORAS

2. He sees philosophy as the science which investigates the ultimate causes of all things in so far as they are knowable by reason.

• A. SOCRATES

• B. PLATO

• C. ARISTOTLE

• D. PYTHAGORAS

3. For him, philosophy is a process of constant questioning.

• A. SOCRATES

• B. PLATO

• C. ARISTOTLE

• D. PYTHAGORAS

4. Philosophy is by applying reason to observation as a means of understanding the riddles of our world. This point of view is according to ___________________.

• A. SOCRATES

• B. PLATO

• C. ARISTOTLE

• D. PYTHAGORAS

5. For him, philosophy is an academic subject that exercises reason and logic in an attempt to understand reality and answer fundamental questions about knowledge, life, morality, virtue, and human nature.

• A. SOCRATES

• B. PLATO

• C. ARISTOTLE

• D. PYTHAGORAS

6. The word philosophy comes from Greek word “_____________” which means love and wisdom.

• A. Phillosophia

• B. Pilosophia

• C. Philosophia

• D. Philossophia

7. It is a study that uses the human reason to investigate the ultimate causes, reasons, and principles which governs all things.

• A. Philosophy

• B. Metaphysics

• C. Epistemology

• D. Aesthethics

8. It is an activity people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world and to each other.

• A. Philosophy

• B. Metaphysics

• C. Epistemology

• D. Aesthetics

9. The study of value in the arts or the inquiry into feelings, judgments, or standards of beauty and related concepts.

• A. Philosophy

• B. Metaphysics

• C. Epistemology

• D. Aesthetics

10. It is the study of what is really real.

• A. Philosophy

• B. Metaphysics

• C. Epistemology

• D. Aesthetics