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WorksheetsPhilosophy 1 Diagnostic Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Philosophy came from two (2) Greek words which are _________ & __________.
philo, sophein
philos, sophos
philein, sophia
philein, sophos
Which philosopher claimed that everything came from water?
Heraclitus
Thrasymachus
Thales
Zeno
Philosophy literally means __________.
study of wisdom
love of knowledge
study of knowledge
love of wisdom
Which of the following is not a branch of Philosophy?
Language
Aesthetics
Logics
Ethics
Which philosopher is considered as the gadfly of Athens?
Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Protagoras
Which branch of Philosophy is concerned about the study of knowledge?
Metaphysics
Ethics
Logic
Epistemology
What is the metaphor used by Plato to illustrate one's journey in the pursuit of knowledge?
Allegory of the Prisoner
Allegory of the Cave
Metaphor of the Flame
Metaphor of Enlightenment
According to Aristotle, it is the greatest good in which everything is aimed at.
telos
elenchus
eudaimonia
arete
What do you call the method used by Socrates in furthering one's knowledge?
Symposium
Dialogue
Forum
Self-reflection
Who is the philosopher who mainly influenced Saint Augustine’s thought and faith?
Plato
Protagoras
Aristotle
Socrates
Who is the philosopher who mainly influenced Saint Thomas Aquinas' thought and faith?
Plato
Protagoras
Aristotle
Socrates
According to Thomas Hobbes, human nature is originally ________.
good
evil
satisfying
NOTA
Who is the political philosopher who thought that it is better to be feared than loved?
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Rene Descartes
Bertrand Russell
Niccolo Machiavelli
According to Anaximander, what is the primary substance from which everything came from?
fire
air
infinite
water
He said that goodness depends on the happiness of the greatest number of people.
Jeremy Bentham
Immanuel Kant
Friedrich Nietzsche
Karl Marx
The term used by Nietzsche to refer to a value-creating individual and a master of morality.
Ubermensch
Philosopher-king
Daimon
Logos
Cogito ergo sum means __________________.
God is with us.
Liberty is freedom.
I am what I think.
I think therefore I am.
Which of these is a deontologist and is famous for the formulation of categorical imperatives?
Immanuel Kant
David Hume
Soren Kierkegaard
NOTA
She is a feminist philosopher who based inequality among sexes to education.She is a feminist philosopher who based inequality among sexes to education.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Nel Noddings
Virgina Woolf
Hannah Arendt
The philosopher who said that we no longer need a divine being and thus God is dead.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Soren Kierkegaard
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Jean Paul Sartre
