WorksheetsMidterm Philosophy
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 17mins
Philosophy is from a greek word "philo" which means _____ and "sophia" which means _____.
positive / thinking
love / wisdom
beginning / reasoning
beauty / logical
This is the correct application of knowledge.
Intelligence
Divergence
Wisdom
Reasoning
This is ancient symbol of harmony.
The Cave
The Thinker
Pieta
Yin Yang
Where philosophy started?
Japan
China
Greece
India
Who is considered the first proper philosopher?
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
Thales
This is one of the branches of philosophy that study things that cannot be experienced.
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Ethics
Aesthetics
This branch of philosophy studies reasoning and giving strong arguments.
Logic
Ethics
Social Philosophy
Epistemology
This branch of philosophy studies and evaluates human conduct.
Aesthetics
Logic
Ethics
Metaphysics
This branch of philosophy studies nature and scope of knowledge.
Epistemology
Logic
Metaphysics
Aesthetics
Who was considered as the father of western philosophy?
Plato
Alexander the Great
Socrates
Aristotle
Numbers and time are examples of conceptual object.
True
False
Empirical objects are things that your senses cannot confirm.
True
False
This is a belief that human has the power or capacity to choose among alternatives or to act in certain situations independently of natural, social, or divine restraints.
(a)
Personal identity persists over time because you remain in the same body from birth to death.
(a)
A belief that all of reality is reducible to two substances.
(a)
It deals with the nature of moral judgement.
Ethics
Metaphysics
Meta-ethics
Normative Ethics
Which is not true about supernaturalism?
the only source of moral rules is God
something is good because God says it is
goodness or badness can be detected by adults
the way to lead a good life is to do what God wants
Which is true about consequentialism?
the principle of the thing
some moral rules that are always true
goodness doesn't need justifying or proving
the greatest good for the greatest number of people
This is concerned with the actions themselves and not with the consequences.
Supernaturalism Ethics
Deontological Ethics
Consequentialism Ethics
Moral Absolutism Ethics
Robin Hood justifies his stealing by helping many poor people. What kind of ethics he believed in?
Supernaturalism
Virtue Ethics
Consequentialism
Situation Ethics
What is not true about absolutism?
There are universal rules that apply to everyone
may use for drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights
doesn't fit with respect for diversity and tradition
things that a particular group of people approve of
A belief that the future can't be changed.
(a)
According to him, everything is water.
Thales
Immanuel Kant
Alexander the Great
Plato
Who compared universe as a bottomless abyss?
Thales
Immanuel Kant
Alexander the Great
Plato
Aristotle
Which is true about Law of Identity?
Everything that exists has a specific nature.
between being and not-being, there is no middle ground possible.
nothing exists without sufficient reason for its being and existence
it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
None of these options
It is concerns about moral principles regarding the problems of freedom, equality, justice and the state.
Applied Ethics
Social Philosophy
Virtue Ethics
Normative
The following are descriptions of virtue ethics except:
virtue ethics teaches that an action is right if and only if it is an action that a virtuous person would do in the same circumstances
is particularly concerned with the way individuals live their lives
the position that to live a moral life, one should be concerned in cultivating a virtuous character rather than just following rules of action
there are some moral rules that are always true, that these rules can be discovered and that these rules apply to everyone.
Which of the following is not a disadvantage of moral relativism.
Many of us think we can be good without conforming to all the rules of society
the consequences of an act or the circumstances surrounding it are relevant to whether that act is good or bad
has a problem with arguing against the majority view
many of us feel that moral rules have more to them than the general agreement of a group of people
There are no moral rules or rights - each case is unique and deserves a unique solution. This is what situation ethics is.
True
False
Applied ethics looks at controversial topics like war, animal rights and capital punishment
True
False
