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Human freedom & environment

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 31mins

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Class
Date
1.

1. He employed the term "boundless" to convey the further thought that nature is indeterminate – boundless in the sense that no boundaries between the warm and cold or the moist and dry regions were originally present within it.

a)

a. Thales

b)

b. Anaximander

c)

c. Anaximenes

d)

d. Pythagoras

2.

2. There are different views on nature or environment from which debates or researches can be framed and reframed. Based on this particular model, humans are superior and central to the universe.

a)

a. anthropocentric

b)

b. egocentric

c)

c. Ecocentric

d)

d. Exocentric

3.

3. Another ancient philosopher described the universe as living embodiment of nature's order, harmony, and beauty.

a)

a. Thales

b)

b. Anaximander

c)

c. Anaximenes

d)

d. Pythagoras

4.

4. This environmental model puts the ecosystem first and assumes that the natural world has intrinsic value.

a)

a. anthropocentric

b)

b. egocentric

c)

c. Ecocentric

d)

d. Exocentric

5.

5. He sees our relationship with the universe involving “love of other living things” and “love of other living beings”. Perhaps, we could consider him as an ecologist.

a)

a. Thales

b)

b. Anaximander

c)

c. Anaximenes

d)

d. Pythagoras

6.

6. It means “love of other living things.”

a)

a. biophilia

b)

b. anorexia

c)

c. cosmophilia

d)

d. hemopenia

7.

7. It means “love of other living beings.”

a)

a. biophilia

b)

b. anorexia

c)

c. cosmophilia

d)

d. hemopenia

8.

8. This cosmic conception is based on the assumption that all that happens in the universe is a continuous whole like a chain of natural

a)

a. Chinese

b)

b. Greek

c)

c. American

d)

d. European

9.

9. For this environmental model, love, respect, admiration for nature, and high regard for its value is essential.

a)

a. anthropocentric

b)

b. egocentric

c)

c. Ecocentric

d)

d. Exocentric

10.

10. “All events in the universe follow a transitional process due to the primeval pair, the yang and the yin.”

a)

a. Chinese

b)

b. Greek

c)

c. American

d)

d. European

11.

11. This being has been establishing civilization in different conditions and context of environment.

a)

a. Plants

b)

b. Animals

c)

c. Brutes

d)

d. Humans

12.

12. “The universe does not proceed onward but revolves without beginning or end. There is nothing new under the sun; the "new" is a repetition of the old.”

a)

a. Chinese

b)

b. Greek

c)

c. American

d)

d. European

13.

13. He expresses that beauty is ultimately a symbol of morality.

a)

a. Mead

b)

b. Anaximander

c)

c. Kant

d)

d. Karol Wojtyla

14.

14. According to him, the environment enables human being “to exist and act together with others”.

a)

a. Karol Wojtyla

b)

b. Payne

c)

c. Kant

d)

d. Herbert Mead

15.

15. According to him, we must ignore any practical motives or inclinations that we have and instead contemplate the object without being distracted by our desires.

a)

a. Karol Wojtyla

b)

b. Anaximander

c)

c. Kant

d)

d. Pythagoras

16.

16. For this environmental model, the land will be considered not an instrumental mode of production but will be preserved with integrity, stability, and beauty. It is incorrect when it tends otherwise.

a)

a. anthropocentric

b)

b. egocentric

c)

c. Ecocentric

d)

d. Exocentric

17.

17. Who dominated nature based on the anthropocentric model?

a)

a. Plants

b)

b. Animals

c)

c. Brutes

d)

d. Humans

18.

18. Its _____ utilization to the environment resulted to ecological crisis.

a)

a. unjust

b)

b. just

c)

b. just

d)

d. equal

19.

19. Because of this environmental model, humanity claims ownership or authority over land.

a)

a. anthropocentric

b)

b. egocentric

c)

c. Ecocentric

d)

d. Exocentric

20.

20. Current researchers exposed the environmental consequence of international politico-economic specialization for specific countries and global regions.

a)

a. Zeus, Elgin, & Pettman

b)

b. Zimmerman, Elgin, & Pettman

c)

c. Zimmerman, Zeus, & Pettman

d)

d. Zimmerman, Elgin, & Zeus

21.

21. It was a meeting place between the East and West in 600 B.C.E., hence, Greek philosophy may have Oriental as well as Egyptian and Babylonian influences.

a)

b. Ithaca

b)

c. Acheron River

c)

d. Ionia

22.

22. In both East and West, philosophers were asking questions about it and our place in it.

a)

a. the universe

b)

b. the politics

c)

c. the economics

d)

d. the history

23.

23. According to Price (2000), they viewed nature's depths intuitively through the eyes of spiritual sages.

a)

a. Eastern Philosophers

b)

b. Western Philosophers

c)

c. Northern Philosophers

d)

d. Southern Philosophers

24.

24. There are different views on nature or environment from which debates or researches can be framed and reframed. Based on this particular model, the relational integrity of the humans, provides the meaning of our morals and values are superior and central to the universe.

a)

a. anthropocentric

b)

b. egocentric

c)

c. Ecocentric

d)

d. Exocentric

25.

25. According to Price (2000), they viewed nature through cognitive and scientific eyes.

a)

a. Eastern Philosophers

b)

b. Western Philosophers

c)

c. Northern Philosophers

d)

d. Southern Philosophers

26.

26. The study established that the damage in our environment is not inevitable but a consequence of our ____.

a)

a. choices

b)

b. skills

c)

c. rejection

d)

d. indifference

27.

26. Someone needs to develop an "ecological conscience" based on individual responsibility to preserve the environment.

a)

a. Animal

b)

b. Plant

c)

c. Man

d)

d. Brute

28.

28. He believes that human action “ought to be helpful in the cognitive actualization of the potentiality” of human being.

a)

a. Herbert Mead

b)

b. Payne

c)

c. Kant

d)

d. Karol Wojtyla

29.

29. According to him, classrooms cannot set aside the importance of aesthetics as well as the environment that suggests valuing that include: aesthetic appreciation; enjoyment, relaxation, satisfaction, calm, peace, social interaction, growth toward holism, and self-understanding.

a)

a. Mead

b)

b. Anaximander

c)

c. Payne

d)

d. Karol Wojtyla

30.

30. They regarded nature as spatially without boundaries, that is, as infinite or indefinite in extent.

a)

a. Eastern Philosophers

b)

b. Western Philosophers

c)

c. Northern Philosophers

d)

d. Southern Philosophers

31.

31. There is goodness in human nature to do good which is rooted in the goodness of God; the God who created everything according to His Divine Plan.

a)

a. instrumental approach

b)

b. natural law ethics

c)

c. anthropological approach

d)

d. utilitarianism

32.

32. This approach to environment focuses on the consequence of human action, whether it is wrong or right. Our action is ethically right when it produces greatest happiness for the greater number of people, otherwise, the action is ethically wrong.

a)

a. instrumental approach

b)

b. axiological approach

c)

c. anthropological approach

d)

d. utilitarianism

33.

33. This kind of relationship between the _____ and the environment has led the emergence and development of the various approaches to nature such as instrumental approach, axiological approach, anthropological approach, utilitarianism, natural law ethics, virtue ethics, and Buberian approaches.

a)

a. humans

b)

b. Animals

c)

c. Plants

d)

d. Brutes

34.

34. This theory argues that ecological crisis is a consequence of male dominance.

a)

a. deep ecology

b)

b. social ecology

c)

c. ecofeminism

d)

d. Eco masculinism

35.

35. For this theory, destroying nature is a reflection wherein few people overpower others while exploiting the environment for profit or self-interest.

a)

a. deep ecology

b)

b. social ecology

c)

c. ecofeminism

d)

d. Eco masculinism

36.

36. A German humanistic philosopher who believes that it is about time that humanity ought to recognize not only itself but also the world around it.

a)

a. St. Augustine

b)

b. Herbert Mead

c)

c. Herbert Marcuse

d)

d. Erich Fromm

37.

37. This being sees and considers the environment as an erratic and disorderly thing that needs to be analyzed, reformed, and reshaped through the cultural tools of science and technology in the service of the human self.

a)

a. Plant

b)

b. Human

c)

c. Animal

d)

d. Brute

38.

38. For this theory, ecological crisis results from authoritarian social structures.

a)

a. deep ecology

b)

b. social ecology

c)

c. ecofeminism

d)

d. Eco masculinism

39.

39. For this ecological theory, the controlling attitude of humankind is extended to nature, when in fact, humanity is part of nature.

a)

a. deep ecology

b)

b. social ecology

c)

c. ecofeminism

d)

d. Eco masculinism

40.

40. Which statement is not the function of Fromm's envisioned society:

a)

a. The willingness to give up all forms of having, in order to fully be.

b)

b. Trying to reduce greed, hate, and illusions as much as one is capable.

c)

c. Not deceiving others, but also not being deceived by others; one may be called innocent, but not naïve

d)

d. Not shedding one's narcissism and not accepting that tragic limitations inherent in human existence.

41.

41. This ecological theory is an outcome of anthropocentrism.

a)

a. deep ecology

b)

b. social ecology

c)

c. ecofeminism

d)

d. Realist

42.

42. They view humanity as merely one element, no more and no less important than all the other elements of the natural world.

a)

a. Taoist

b)

b. Essentialist

c)

c. Existentialist

d)

d. Realist

43.

43. He proposed a new society that should encourage the emergence of a new human being that will foster prudence and moderation or frugality toward the environment.

a)

a. St. Augustine

b)

b. Herbert Mead

c)

c. Herbert Marcuse

d)

d. Erich Fromm

44.

44. They encourage humanity to shift away from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism.

a)

a. deep ecology

b)

b. social ecology

c)

c. ecofeminism

d)

d. Eco masculinism

45.

45. In this view, whatever is "superior" is entitled to whatever is "inferior."

a)

a. deep ecology

b)

b. social ecology

c)

c. ecofeminism

d)

d. Eco masculinism

46.

46. For him, as human beings, our biological urge for survival turns into selfishness and laziness.

a)

a. St. Augustine

b)

b. Herbert Mead

c)

c. Herbert Marcuse

d)

d. Erich Fromm

47.

47. The environment shall always have an inherent relation with the _____. This shows that the environment “would have a real relation with Him because were it not the creative work of God”, the environment would not have existed at all.

a)

a. Creator

b)

b. Creature

c)

c. Man

d)

d. Animal

48.

48. Aristotle’s “Intellectual Freedom” consists of the following except _____.

a)

A. Reason

b)

B. Will

c)

C. Action

d)

D. Friendship

49.

49. The line, “Our spirituality separates humans from animals”, was attributed to___.

a)

A. Aristotle

b)

B. Jean Paul Sartre

c)

C. St. Thomas Aquinas

d)

D. Viktor Frankl

50.

50. Human freedom has two elements. Which of the following pair of ordered words is correct?

a)

A. Will : Apathy

b)

B. Voluntariness : Responsibility

c)

C. Intellect : Irresponsibility

d)

D. Volition : Enslavement

51.

51. Which of the following is consistent with the concept of physical freedom?

a)

A. The person is free to perform actions that he or she considers right and wise.

b)

B. The person has the freedom of mobility to go where he or she wants to go.

c)

C. Using freedom in a manner that upholds human dignity and goodness.

d)

D. A person must use freedom for him to grow as a person as one has a natural inclination for what is true and good.

52.

52. The line, “if a human being perseveringly lives a righteous and virtuous life, he transcends his mortal state of life and soars to an immortal state of life?” is true to which of the following?

a)

A. Jean Paul Sartre: Individual Freedom

b)

B. St. Thomas Aquinas : Love is Freedom

c)

C. Aristotle: Intellectual Freedom

d)

D. Karl Marx : Historical Materialism

53.

53. Power of volition that belongs to humans has something to do with the following, EXCEPT _____.

a)

A. actions bear no consequences.

b)

B. an act of making a choice or decision.

c)

C. the power of choosing or determining a course of action.

d)

D. that if there were no intellect, there would be no will.

54.

54. The principle of “existence precedes essence” is illustrated in the following, EXCEPT _____.

a)

A. Persons must first exist or be born and define themselves afterward.

b)

B. The will of humans to do things is according to the dictates of his intellect.

c)

C. To provide oxygen, shades, or fruits, the seedlings need to grow bigger to become trees.

d)

D. The essence of a person expressed in meaning or purpose can be known only after he has learned lessons in life through experiences.

55.

55. St. Thomas Aquinas’ “Freedom is Love” spoke of our spirituality that separates us from animals and this spirituality delineates moral dimension of our fulfillment in an action. Which statement below makes Aquinas’ pronouncement erroneous?

a)

A. Through our spirituality, we have a conscience.

b)

B. Whatever we choose to be “good” or “evil” becomes our responsibility.

c)

C. The essence can only be made known after existence, like a tree has to grow big first in size from a seedling.

d)

D. A human being has a supernatural and transcendental destiny to go beyond limitations to rise above his or her ordinary being or self to a highest being or self.

56.

56. Which of the following statements explains that “Freedom is an intrinsic and essential property of the person?”

a)

A. A person becomes freer when he or she exercises control over himself or herself.

b)

B. Many of the characteristics that define our personality are often the products of our choices.

c)

C. This means that the human person by nature is a free being and that it is his or her nature to seek freedom.

d)

D. Our preferences and views are other aspects of our personality that we freely adopt.

57.

57. Moral acts, which are always particular acts, are in our power and we are responsible for them. Which of the following statements best negates this statement?

a)

A. A student should not be repentant of cutting class, as he or she is not responsible for the consequences of his or her actions.

b)

B. For not exerting efforts, students must be held responsible for failure in grades that will befall on him/her.

c)

C. The student should not regret on his/her failures, as these are experiences that make him/her a better person.

d)

D. Cutting classes is voluntary, and likely, results into students’ failing grade. That choice is his but he has to bear responsibility.

58.

58. Which of the following statements is inconsistent with freedom?

a)

A. Freedom is an intrinsic and essential property of the person.

b)

B. Freedom is rooted in the human person’s self-determination and the exercise of intellect and will.

c)

C. Freedom is also understood as the power to be what you want to be and the ability to decide and create for yourself.

d)

D. Freedom makes a person free when he or she is no longer control of himself or herself as he or she is controlled by other forces.

59.

59. When will be the time that we can no longer use Physical freedom?

a)

When we can freely move but has limitations

b)

When a person is in a wheelchair

c)

When a person is in Jail because of violating the law of freedom

d)

All of the above

60.

60. Because freedom is relational, all is true, EXCEPT

a)

It is not doing about what we want

b)

It is centered on oneself

c)

it is doing what is good

d)

it is respecting the dignity of each other