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Philosophy test questions

Total questions: 55

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Skepticism?

a)

Cognitive pessimism

b)

cognitive optimism

c)

cognitive disbelief

d)

cognitive doubts

e)

cognitive negation

2.

Which ideas are TRUE according to Descartes «Theory of Ideas»?

a)

Mind ideas

b)

innate ideas

c)

sensory ideas

d)

authorities’ ideas

e)

common sense

3.

Who believed that TRUTH can be proved in the process of socio-historical practice?

a)

Hegel

b)

Marx

c)

Kant

d)

Bacon

e)

Lock

4.

Who believed that we can cognize only Phenomena?

a)

Hegel

b)

Marx

c)

Kant

d)

Bacon

e)

Lock

5.

Type of Cognition based on Conceptual understanding the reality:

a)

ordinary cognition

b)

scientific cognition

c)

practical cognition

d)

artistic cognition

e)

moral cognition

6.

Levels of Cognition:

a)

Ordinary and theoretical

b)

sensual and rational

c)

basic and complex

d)

lower and higher

e)

everyday and scientific

7.

What is Judgment?

a)

Statement reflecting the things and their properties

b)

logical image that reproduces the essential properties of objects

c)

deduction from several interrelated judgments of a new judgment

d)

comprehend the truth by seeing it clear

e)

integral image of an object in the unity reflected through sensations

8.

What is Concept?

a)

Statement reflecting the things and their properties

b)

logical image that reproduces the essential properties of objects

c)

deduction from several interrelated judgments of a new judgment

d)

comprehend the truth by seeing it clear

e)

integral image of an object in the unity reflected through sensations

9.

What is Inference?

a)

Statement reflecting the things and their properties

b)

logical image that reproduces the essential properties of objects

c)

deduction from several interrelated judgments of a new judgment

d)

comprehend the truth by seeing it clear

e)

integral image of an object in the unity reflected through sensations

10.

What is Intuition?

a)

Statement reflecting the things and their properties

b)

logical image that reproduces the essential properties of objects

c)

deduction from several interrelated judgments of a new judgment

d)

comprehend the truth by seeing it clear

e)

integral image of an object in the unity reflected through sensations

11.

What is Truth in Classical sense?

a)

Truth is the correspondence of knowledge to reality

b)

this is what is confirmed by experience

c)

is a kind of agreement - a convention

d)

usefulness of the knowledge gained

e)

effectiveness of its use in practice

12.

What is correct about Fallacy?

a)

Deliberate distortion of truth

b)

is the essential part of the cognitive process (as an unintended error)

c)

Lie

d)

Is the fail of cognitive process

e)

Ideological essence of cognition

13.

Axiology studies:

a)

notions

b)

values

c)

norms

d)

taboos

e)

laws

14.

Absolute values:

a)

truth, beauty, good

b)

justice, injustice

c)

God

d)

Human health

15.

Classification of values by carrier:

a)

material, spiritual

b)

individual, supra individual

c)

economical, political

d)

social, family

e)

absolute, specific

16.

Classification of values by existence:

a)

material, spiritual

b)

individual, supra individual

c)

economical, political

d)

social, family

e)

absolute, specific

17.

What is Ethics?

a)

theory of art

b)

theory of morality

c)

theory of society

d)

theory of religion

e)

theory of nature

18.

What is Morality?

a)

social regulation form through beauty-ugly

b)

social regulation form through good-bad

c)

social regulation form through justice-injustice

d)

social regulation form through useful-useless

e)

social regulation form through faith-denial

19.

Why is Ethics practical science?

a)

It is studied to know what is good

b)

it is studied in order to become virtuous

c)

It is studied to learn what is evil

d)

It is studied to know more

e)

It is studied to get wisdom

20.

Difference between Morality and Mores?

a)

No difference

b)

difference between what is Due and what is Real

c)

norms and ideals

d)

good and bad

e)

week and strong

21.

Main Christian values:

a)

Pride and humility

b)

faith, hope, love

c)

cupidity and generosity

d)

lust and chastity

e)

true and lie

22.

Which one is Stoic principle?

a)

live for pleasure and well-being

b)

focus on what you control

c)

live a complete and fulfilling life

d)

usefulness, practicability, benefit

e)

prudence, courage, justice

23.

Which one is Hedonistic principle?

a)

live for pleasure and well-being

b)

focus on what you control

c)

live a complete and fulfilling life

d)

usefulness, practicability, benefit

e)

prudence, courage, justice

24.

Which one is Pragmatic principle?

a)

live for pleasure and well-being

b)

focus on what you control

c)

live a complete and fulfilling life

d)

usefulness, practicability, benefit

e)

prudence, courage, justice

25.

What is Epicureanism principle?

a)

live for pleasure and well-being (specifically absence of pain)

b)

focus on what you control

c)

live a complete and fulfilling life

d)

usefulness, practicability, benefit

e)

prudence, courage, justice

26.

What is Eudemonism principle?

a)

live for pleasure and well-being

b)

focus on what you control

c)

live a complete and fulfilling life (happiness as flourishing)

d)

usefulness, practicability, benefit

e)

prudence, courage, justice

27.

Essence of Art in classical sense: Select the correct statement.

a)

Art is representation of reality

b)

Art is beauty, truth, good

c)

Art is expression of spiritual world of artist

d)

Art is only fine art

e)

Art is skill and mastery (Greek 'Techne')

28.

Essence of Art in Renaissance sense: Select the correct statement.

a)

Art is representation of reality

b)

Art is beauty, truth, good

c)

Art is expression of spiritual world of artist

d)

Art is only fine art

e)

Art is skill and mastery

29.

Essence of Art in 17-18 centuries: Select the correct statement.

a)

Art is representation of reality

b)

Art is beauty, truth, good

c)

Art is expression of spiritual world of artist

d)

Art is only fine art

e)

Art is skill and mastery

30.

Essence of Art in contemporary sense: Select the correct statement.

a)

Art is representation of reality

b)

Art is beauty, truth, good

c)

Art is expression of spiritual world of artist

d)

Art is only fine art

e)

Art is skill and mastery

31.

Essence of Art in traditional sense: Select the correct statement.

a)

Art is representation of reality

b)

Art is beauty, truth, good

c)

Art is expression of spiritual world of artist

d)

Art is only fine art

e)

Art is skill and mastery

32.

Aesthetic categories of Nietzsche: Select the item that belongs.

a)

sublimation

b)

Apollonian and Dionysian

c)

absurd

d)

mimesis

e)

catharsis

33.

Aesthetic categories of Freud: Select the item that belongs.

a)

sublimation

b)

Apollonian and Dionysian

c)

absurd

d)

mimesis

e)

catharsis

34.

Aesthetic categories of Existentialism: Select the item that belongs.

a)

sublimation

b)

Apollonian and Dionysian

c)

absurd

d)

mimesis

e)

catharsis

35.

Aesthetic categories of Plato: Select the item that belongs.

a)

sublimation

b)

Apollonian and Dionysian

c)

absurd

d)

mimesis

e)

catharsis

36.

Aesthetic categories of Aristotle: Select the item that belongs.

a)

sublimation

b)

Apollonian and Dionysian

c)

absurd

d)

mimesis

e)

catharsis

37.

Whose statement is this? - People are born free or slaves.

a)

Erasmus

b)

Aristotle

c)

Spinoza

d)

Rousseau

e)

Fromm

38.

Whose statement is this? - Freedom is human illusion.

a)

Erasmus

b)

Aristotle

c)

Spinoza (necessity misunderstood)

d)

Rousseau

e)

Fromm

39.

Whose statement is this? - Freedom is realized necessity.

a)

Erasmus

b)

Aristotle

c)

Spinoza

d)

Rousseau

e)

Fromm

40.

Whose statement is this? - Freedom is democracy and equality.

a)

Erasmus

b)

Aristotle

c)

Spinoza

d)

Rousseau

e)

Fromm

41.

Whose statement is this? - There is freedom from and freedom for.

a)

Erasmus

b)

Aristotle

c)

Spinoza

d)

Rousseau

e)

Fromm

42.

Which one describes inevitable course of things which are unavoidable:

a)

liberalism

b)

fatalism

c)

determinism

d)

voluntarism

e)

providentialism

43.

Which one describes individual, civil rights, free enterprise:

a)

liberalism

b)

fatalism

c)

determinism

d)

voluntarism

44.

Which one describes that everything happens due to the objective laws:

a)

liberalism

b)

fatalism

c)

determinism

d)

voluntarism

e)

providentialism

45.

Which one describes that everything happens due to somebody’s will:

a)

liberalism

b)

fatalism

c)

determinism

d)

voluntarism

e)

providentialism

46.

Which one describes the everything happens due to God’s will:

a)

liberalism

b)

fatalism

c)

determinism

d)

voluntarism

e)

providentialism

47.

Tick the criteria of society:

a)

territory

b)

all of them

c)

self-regulation

d)

self-control

e)

integrity

48.

What is society?

a)

Aggregate of individuals

b)

Social system

c)

community

49.

Which definition of society is of Social Darwinism?

a)

Society is social relations

b)

society is organism

c)

Society is geographic adaptation

d)

Society is ideal place

e)

Society is summation of individuals

50.

Which definition of society is of Marxism?

a)

Society is social relations

b)

society is organism

c)

Society is geographic adaptation

d)

Society is ideal place

e)

Society is summation of individuals

51.

Which definition of society is of Naturalism?

a)

Society is social relations

b)

society is organism

c)

Society is geographic adaptation

d)

Society is ideal place

e)

Society is summation of individuals

52.

Which definition of society is of Utopian?

a)

Society is social relations

b)

society is organism

c)

Society is geographic adaptation

d)

Society is ideal place

e)

Society is summation of individuals

53.

Which definition of society is of Atomism?

a)

Society is social relations

b)

society is organism

c)

Society is geographic adaptation

d)

Society is ideal place

e)

Society is summation of individuals

54.

Which one is concise definition of Culture?

a)

Scope of arts

b)

is material and spiritual environment created by man

c)

life style

d)

fine manners

e)

customs and traditions

55.

What are the main characteristics of a Mass Man according to Ortega y Gasset?

a)

responsibility

b)

consumerism

c)

education

d)

high standards

e)

hard work