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The philosophical knowledge 2

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Modern philosophy was developed during the 17th and 18th centuries

a)

True

b)

False

2.

The particular sciences search for

a)

What is correct in the explanation of phenomena

b)

The relative in the explanation of phenomena

c)

The exactness of the explanation of the phenomena

d)

What is moral

3.

When comparing philosophy and science it can be stated that

a)

Both seek a rational explanation of phenomena.

b)

Philosophical questions do not have a single valid answer.

c)

Science answers eliminate the question.

d)

All are correct

4.

No particular science studies the reality as a whole.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The pre-Socratics search for (a)   from whence everything proceeds.

6.

The (a)   use of reason is responsible for the guidance of human life.

7.

According to Kant, the task of philosophy is to answer the following questions:

a)

What can we hope for?

b)

What can we know?

c)

What should we do?

d)

All are correct

8.

Philosophy and science started out as the same rational activity of explaining phenomena.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

One of the common aspects of philosophy and religion is to propose a way of life.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Philosophy emerged in the centuries (a)  

11.

When philosophy emerged it was replaced (a)   by rational explanation.

12.

Myth is a narrative that

a)

it pretends to explain all phenomen

b)

it is accepted by tradition

c)

it is symbolic and irrational

d)

All are correct

13.

The (a)   is the branch of philosophy that is concerned with reflecting on knowledge, its limits, origin and pretension to reach the truth.

14.

(a)   is the branch of philosophy that studies the form, validity, and correctness of arguments.

15.

(a)   is the branch of philosophy that studies the rightness or wrongness of human behaviour, morality, virtue, duty, happiness and good living.

16.

(a)   is the branch of philosophy that studies how individuals and society should relate to each other

17.

Some important author(s) of the philosophy of Classical Antiquity is/are:

a)

Plato

b)

Descartes

c)

Hume

d)

All are correct

18.

Kant is an enlightened philosopher who makes a synthesis between ______________________ and_______________________.

(a)  

19.

For rational knowledge, explanations of phenomena must be

a)

they are not based on the intervention of divinities

b)

they arebased on a method

c)

oriented to search for causes

d)

All are correct

20.

The birth of philosophy is known as the passage from myth to logos.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Some characteristics of mythical explanation are

a)

Arbitrary

b)

Imaginative

c)

Based on tradition

d)

All are correct

22.

Philosophy is a historical product because it depends on the social and economic conditions of the time.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

Unlike science, the history of philosophy is not the history of the solutions to the problems it analyses, since most of them remain open.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

Doing philosophy involves taking into account what philosophers of the past have done in order to keep in mind the problems that remain open to philosophical enquiry

a)

True

b)

False

25.

An important difference between philosophy and religion is that religion is based on (a)   and philosophy on reasons.