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Ancient and Modern Philosophical View of Self

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

They are the core elements needed for a thing to be what it is.

a)

Essential Properties

b)

Accidental Properties

c)

Fungibility

d)

Personal Identity

2.

They are traits that could be taken away from an object without making it a different thing.

a)

Fungibility

b)

Essential Properties

c)

Accidental Properties

d)

Body Theory

3.

It is the property of being interchangeable with other objects of the same kind.

a)

Body Theory

b)

Dualism

c)

Fungibility

d)

Interactionism

4.

It is defined as the love of wisdom

a)

Psychology

b)

Philanthropy

c)

Sociology

d)

Philosophy

5.

The academic study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.

a)

Philosophy

b)

Existentialism

c)

Essentialism

d)

Realism

6.

According to _______________, every man is dualistic.

a)

Plato

b)

Aristotle

c)

Socrates

d)

St. Augustine of Hippo

7.

According to the Concept of Dualism, a person’s self is comprised of two parts, what are these?

a)

Body and Mind

b)

Mind and Soul

c)

Body and Soul

d)

Body and Brain

8.

________, the student of Socrates, added to his teacher’s theory that the SOUL has 3 more underlying components.

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Heraclitus

9.

This soul governs reason and intellect,

a)

Thinking Soul

b)

Spirited Soul

c)

Appetitive Soul

d)

Rational Soul

10.

This soul stores our base desires such as food, drinks, sleep, sex, etc.

a)

Appetitive Soul

b)

Rational Soul

c)

Hungry Soul

d)

Spirited Soul

11.

This soul manages the person’s emotions.

a)

Emotional Soul

b)

Spirited Soul

c)

Spiritual Soul

d)

Christian Soul

12.

According to Plato, when the three components of the soul are balanced a human person’s soul becomes _______ and ________.

a)

Just and Virtuous

b)

Happy and Contented

c)

Calm and Composed

d)

Satisfied and Fair

13.

St. Augustine of Hippo also follows the views of Plato but added ________.

a)

Protestantism

b)

Islam

c)

Catholicism

d)

Christianity

14.

TRUE or FALSE. Our BODY is simply a vessel for our SOUL which contains our consciousness.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

15.

The rise of _________ in the 17th Century, the period of Modern Philosophy, was founded by Rene Descartes.

a)

Memory Theory

b)

Existentialism

c)

Empiricism

d)

Skepticism

16.

A _______ is a person who questions whether anything can be known with certainty.

a)

Confused

b)

Skeptic

c)

Distracted

d)

Clueless

17.

Along with the rise of skepticism, the rise of Empiricism also burst forth in the same period led by __________.

a)

David Hume

b)

Immanuel Kant

c)

Rene Descartes

d)

John Locke

18.

According to Hume, the self is nothing but a bundle of ______ and ______.

a)

First and Last Impressions

b)

Impression and Ideas

c)

Body and Mind

d)

Body and Soul

19.

"Dubito ergo cogito, cogito ergo sum."

a)

I am therefore I think, therefore I doubt.

b)

I think therefore I doubt, therefore I am.

c)

I doubt therefore I think, therefore I am.

d)

I doubt therefore I think, therefore I exist.

20.

For him, the thing that makes you “you” is the non-physical stuff which is your mind or consciousness.

a)

John Locke

b)

John Lucas

c)

John Major

d)

John McDowell

21.

He believed that personal identity persists over time because you retain memories of yourself at different points and each of those memories is connected to the one before it.

a)

Mind Theory

b)

Concept of Memory

c)

Mind over matter

d)

Memory Theory