Prelim MOD 1 : Lesson 1

Question 1

He is credited for his many contributions to western philosophy

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

Socrates was high regarded by ______

Answer 2

Plato

Question 3

An ancient Greek aphorism which means Know Thyself by Socrates

Answer 3

Gnothi Seauton

Question 4

What are Socrates techniques in asking questions?

Answer 4

Who am I?
What is the purpose of my life?
What am I doing here?
What is justice?

Question 5

It means knowing one’s degree of understanding about the world and knowing one’s capabilities and potentials

Answer 5

Self Knowledge

Question 6

_____ is achieved and something to work on

Answer 6

Self

Question 7

Possesion of knowledge is ____ and ignorance is ____

Answer 7

virtue , vice

Question 8

Socrates is a ______

Answer 8

Dualist

Question 9

Socrates believed that man has ______ which is divine,immoral,intelligible,uniform,indissoluble, and ever self-consistent and invariable.

Answer 9

Soul

Question 10

For the ____, according to Socrates, is human,mortal,multiform,unintelligible,dissoluble and inconsistent.

Answer 10

Body

Question 11

_____ is the release of the soul from the body

Answer 11

Death

Question 12

The soul controls these emotions and actions through _____ and ____

Answer 12

Proper Judgement , Reason

Question 13

An ancient Greek Philosopher, student of Socrates

Answer 13

Plato

Question 14

Plato was the teacher of?

Answer 14

Aristotle

Question 15

Give the 2 idealism of Plato

Answer 15

Empirical Reality
Ultimate Reality

Question 16

In this reality we experience the experiental world is fundamentally unreal and is only a shadow or mere appearance

Answer 16

Empirical Reality

Question 17

This reality is real as it is eternal and constitutes abstract universal essences of things

Answer 17

Ultimate Reality

Question 18

Plato added that ___ are ___ of the intellect known by reason alone and are ______ that exits in a world of their own.

Answer 18

Ideas, Objects, Objective Realities

Question 19

Plato was one of the first philosophers who believed in an ______ that is represented by the soul

Answer 19

Enduring Self

Question 20

The existence of past and future for St.Augustine is only possible through ____ and ____

Answer 20

Memory , Expectations

Question 21

TRUE or FALSE

As long as the consciousness can be extended backward to any past action or forward to actions to come, it determines the personality of the person

Answer 21

False, Identity

Question 21

A french philosopher and mathematician who allegedly never left bed before 11 am, an inventor of analytic geometry and Cartesian Coordinate System

Answer 21

Rene Descartes

Question 22

It became one of the important idea in psychology which pertains to the inquiry of the soul then of the mind,consciousness and thought

Answer 22

Introspection

Question 22

TRUE or FALSE

Humans have self-consciousness because of the superiority of humans over other organisms

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Rene Descartes was the tutor of ______ of ______

Answer 23

Queen Christina of Sweden

Question 24

Aphorism of Rene Descartes

Answer 24

Cogito,Ergo Sum ( I think, therefore I am)

Question 25

For Rene Descartes, he believed that the self is?

Answer 25

"A thinking thing or a substance whose whole essence or nature is merely thinking"

Question 26

TRUE or FALSE Western Philosophy is largely influenced by Descartes

Answer 26

True

Question 27

For Descartes, the self is nothing else but a mind-body _____

Answer 27

Dichotomy

Question 28

_____(mind) always precedes _______ (body)

Answer 28

Thought, Action

Question 29

They are Canadian-American philosophers whose work has focused on integrating the disciplines of philosophy of mind and neuroscience in a new approach that has been called Neurophilosophy

Answer 29

Paul and Patricia Churchland

Question 30

"A radical claim that ordinary,common sense understanding of the mind is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental states posited by common sense do not actually exist"

Answer 30

Eliminative Materialism

Question 31

Common Sense is something that is TRUE

Answer 31

False

Question 32

Most people think that we have a stream of consciousness that contains images and conceptions of things about which we have beliefs and attitudes

Answer 32

Folk Psychology

Question 33

For the Churchland's self is nothing else but the ____, or simply, the self is contained entirely within the physical brain.

Answer 33

Brain

Question 34

In Patricia Churchland's book she mentioned that to understand the self one must study the ____,not just the ___

Answer 34

Brain, Mind

Question 35

A french phenomenological philosopher, born on March 14, 1908

Answer 35

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Question 36

Maurice Merleau-Ponty distinguished the body into 2 types which are?

Answer 36

Subjective Body Objective Body

Question 37

Aphorism of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Answer 37

"I am my body"

Question 38

TRUE or FALSE Consciousness is both perceiving and engaging

Answer 38

True

Question 39

TRUE or FALSE Mind and Body are not correlated

Answer 39

False, they are essentially correlated