Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education

FINAL EXAMINATION IN
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN PERSON

Name: ______________________________ Date:____________________________

Grade/ Section: _______________________ Score: ___________________________

PART I. MULTIPLE CHOICE

Directions: Identify the terms that being described. Write the letter of the best answer in the space
provided.

______1. It refers to the absence of any physical restraint. The person has the freedom of mobility to go
where he or she wants to go.
a. Physical Freedom c. Moral Freedom
b.Psychological Freedom d. Intellectual Freedom

______2. It is also called the Freedom of choice. A person is free to perform actions that he or she
considers right and wise.
a. Psychological Freedom c. Moral Freedom
b.Physical Freedom d. Intellectual Freedom

______3. It refers to using freedom in a manner that upholds dignity and goodness.
a. Moral Freedom
b.Psychological Freedom
c. Intellectual Freedom
d.Physical Freedom

______4. It is the ability of a person to act out of his or her own free will and self-determination.
a. Freedom
b.Experiences
c. Voluntariness
d.Choices

______5. It refers to the person being accountable for his or her actions and their consequences.
a. Choices c. Freedom
b.Responsibility d. Moral choices

______6. This is how philosophers define interpersonal relations

a. recognizing the self in the other
b. unique relationship between distinct objects
c. seeming and dealing
d. self in the other

______7. When does dialogue occur?

a. When you imagine of something that you wanted.
b.When you see yourself achieving something.
c. When two persons “open up” to each other and give and receive one another in an encounter.
d. When a person likes your status in facebook.

______8. How genuine dialogue happens?

a. When persons are willing to share themselves with one another.
b. When persons are ready for comments and praises.
c. When persons are always chatting.
d. When persons are welcoming new friends
______9. It is an agreement where individuals sacrifice an amount of their freedom and submit to a
higher authority.
a. State Contract c. consent of the governed
b. Social Contract d. none of the above
______10. What is the concept of Aristotle’s realization that “all actions have consequences”?
a. Love is freedom c. The power of Volition
b. Spiritual Freedom d. Individual Freedom

______11.Who does not belong to the group?

a. Thomas Hobbes c. Jacques Rousseau
b.John Locke d. Aristotle

______12. “No knowledge of one’s own characteristics such as gender, race or social status”. What does
it mean?
a. Humans would naturally seek a just and fair society in an effort to look out for their own
interest.
b. Humans can live by their own.
c. Humans have their own identity.
d. Humans are rational individuals.

______13. It refers to the social conditions which enable persons and groups to fulfil their goals and
achieve well-being.
a. Common good c. Collective effort
b.Goals of survival d. General will

______14. This is recognized as the earliest and simplest form of society. It is generally characterized by
its small size and is composed mainly of families.
a. Hunting and gathering society c. Horticultural society
b.Pastoral society d. Agrarian

______15. We can identify “Pastoral society” as:

a. Engages in the small scale cultivation of plants, fruits, and vegetables and the domestication of
animals.
b. Domestication of animals for food for a more stable and predictable food supply.
c. The evolution of the pastoral and horticultural societies.
d.None of these.

______16. Horticultural societies are semi-nomadic, what does it mean?

a. They are the owner of the land.
b.The division of labor is not highly defined.
c. They produce surplus food and resources.
d. They travel to another place when they have already depleted the resources in one area.

______17. What form of society is increasingly complex social organization and growing importance of
territory often result in conflicts among neighboring societies over resources and land?
a. Feudal Society c. Agrarian society
b.Industrial society d. Hunting society

______18. What is the result of technological advances in Industrial Society?

a. Improved trade and commerce and better life conditions for many people.
b. Organization of society.
c. More face – to face interaction with other people.
d. Social media sites are life.

______19. Despite of so many changes and advancement, what remains the heart of society?
a. Internet c. Human person
b. Social media d. Saints

______20. This form of society is based on the ownership of land where rulers grant their followers or
vassals the right to manage the parcels of the land.
a. Feudal society c. Post – industrial society
b. Horticultural society d. Industrial society
______21. Imagine that when you are told to greet or give respect to your elders, you refuse to do so.
What do you think will be the reaction of the people around you?
a. Your actions will be considered as disrespectful and you will be considered as disrespectful
person.
 b. They will be glad to what you did.
c. They will ask you to do it next time.
d. The people around you will consider you as a good role model.

______22. Which is TRUE about how society influence our development as human persons?
a. There is no relationship between the society and the human persons.
b. The person and the society have a very dynamic relationship in which one cannot exist
without the other.
c. Society is formed by the evil deeds of human beings. .
d. None of these is true.

______23. It is an organized or patterned set of relationships among individuals and groups that compose
a society.
a. Norms
b. Standards
c. Social system
d. Social values

______24. The title “Modern Philosophy” is an attack on and a rejection of the Middle Ages that
occupied the preceding thousand years. What does it mean?
a. It is an attack on the church that ruled those ages and dictated its ideas.

b. It is an attack on the technological changes.

c. It is an attack on the human beings.
d. No possible answer.

______25. It refers to the concept that all human beings have the unique power to change themselves and
the things around them for the better, St. Thomas Aquinas is the proponent of this kind of
freedom.
a. The power of volition c. Love is freedom
b. Spiritual Freedom d. Individual Freedom

______26. Which is not included in the group?

a. Anthropocentrism
b. Biocentrism
c. Homophilia
d. Ecocentrism

______27. In the view of Socratic Method, Socrates wanted to imply two things and these can be
interpreted as:
a. (1) To assess the needs of the students and (2) to set him problems.
b. (1) To assess the level of economic aspect and (2) to set him problems.
c. (1) To assess by questions the character of the student and (2) to set him problems.
d. None of these.

______28. It focuses on the significant role of humankind in the world and considers nature as the means
by which humans are able to meet their needs and survive.
a. Anthropocentrism
b. Ecocentrism
c. Biocentrism
d. Environmental Aesthetics

______29. According to Aristotle, Natural world is divided into two main categories. What are those?
a. Biodegradable and non – biodegradable
b. Living and non – living things
c. Black and white
d. Space and universe

______30. Why do we suffer?

a. Suffering takes place when we patiently endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and pain.
b. Suffering takes place when we have lots of money.
 c. Suffering takes place when we experience different things in life.
d. No possible answer.

______31. As a human person, how do you best describe happiness?

a. If you have everything in life.
b. If you make other persons happy.
c. If you see other persons suffer.
d. If you got the highest position in your career.

______32. According to Anaximander, it is when the evolution of the world begins with the generation of
opposites in a certain region of nature.
a. Creation and Destruction c. Fallenness
b. Facticity d. Yin and Yang

______33. It believes that humans are not the only significant species on the planet, that all organisms
have inherent value and should be protected.
a. Biocentrism c. Anthropocentrism
b. Environmental Aesthetics d. Ecocentrism

______34. How do you see the persons with disabilities?

a. Normal person
b. Curse
d. Totally disabled
c. Useless individuals

______ 35. What situation shows how the human persons exercising their freedom in wrong way?
a. Instead if spending her excess allowance on a new pair of shoes, Reyna decides to open a
bank account and start saving up for her future.
b. Despite the threats made on his life, the witness decided to come forward and divulge
important information regarding the crime he witnessed.
c. A woman used the internet to humiliate her ex – boyfriend by spreading lewd photos of him
on social media.
d. A businessman did not accept a high – paying position in an overseas firm and instead
decided to start his own business and spend more time with his family.

______36. How do you best describe “life”?

a. Living it to the fullest.
b. Doing good deeds to yourself and to other people.
c. Live, eat and be merry.
d. No possible answer.

______37. What is your interpretation in this sentence?

“Choices have consequences.”
a. In everything you do, you will be certain for the results and consequences come because you
are a bright person.
b. Choices and consequences are predictable, those two are already specified by the human
persons.
c. . In every choice that we make, there are things which are going to happen, whatever it is, all
we need is to accept the consequences and make it better the next time once it failed, and
maintain its goodness once it succeed.
d. No possible answer.

______38. He is an Australian evangelist and motivational speaker who was born with phocomelia, a
condition in which a person is born with no arms and legs?
a. Nicholas James Vujicic
b. Hellen Keller
c. Aristotle
d. Rene Descartes
______39.She is the first visually – impaired Filipino to graduate summa cum laude from Ateneo de
Manila University.
a. Dr. Fe del Mundo
b. Hellen Keller
 c. Jennifer Lopez
d. Roselle Ambubuyog

______40. It is an action where the individual presents himself or herself in a certain way when dealing
with others.
a. Seeming
b. open mindedness
c. self-awareness
d. self-satisfaction

PART II. TRUE or FALSE

Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE if it is incorrect. If FALSE,
underline the word/s that make/s the statement wrong and write its correct term on the space provided.

_______41. Man has the natural tendency to establish relationships with other people. ______________
_______42. We are primarily aware of people as objects and not as persons. _______________________
_______43. The views and ideas of other people, as well as social context, do not influence our behavior
as individuals._________________
_______44. An authentic relationship is possible only if individuals acknowledge each other’s presence
as person._________________
_______45. Ethics of care believes that persons help one another because of their selfish interests.______

PART III. Essay (5 points)

-What is the meaning of life for you? Give your self-reflection.

You are unique. You can do great things on your own. You can do it! 