Camarines Norte College Senior High School

Intro to Philosophy of the Human Person

Midterm Examination 2017-2018
Name:_____________________________ Strand:____________
Date:____________ Score:__________
I. Identification
Choose the right answer from the box to complete each of the following statements below.

experimental science Immanuel Kant Amor sapiential

Nature religious perspective Soul
failures modern thinkers George Herbert Mead
forgive Hinduism Moral Agents
Apeiron Steward Cosmogony
Cosmophilia The Aum(om) Boundless/indefinite
Buddha spiritual and immortal Biophilia
Brain Pope Francis Cosmophilia
Microcosm Moksha Beauty
Cosmos Centric Approach Metempsychosis Herbert Marcuse
Theocentric Approach Anthropocentric approach Pythagoras
Universe Suffering

______________1. At the heart of this religion lies the idea of human being’s quest for absolute truth, so that one’s soul and the
Brahman or Atman (Absolute one) might become one.
______________2. As the most sacred sound, it is the root of the universe and everything that exists and it continues to hold
everything together.
______________3. According to Hinduism, human beings have a dual nature: one is _____essence (soul); the other is empirical
life and character.
______________4. In Hinduism, it is the humanity’s basic goal in life. It is the liberation of the spirit.
______________5. _____ is a doctrine that adheres to the belief that a person’s soul passes into some other creature, human, or
animal.
______________6. According to the first noble truth, “life is full of _____.”
______________7. _____ means we shall ask whether or not the existence of God provides the best explanation of the existence
of the world, as we know it.
______________8. For St. Augustine, philosophy is _____, the love of wisdom; its aim is to produce happiness.
______________9. Augustine favors “man is a rational substance constituted of _____ and body.”
______________10. Human being are __________ according to St. Thomas Aquinas.
______________11. Anaximander is notable because of his __________, which means genesis of the world.
______________12. Apeiron means ___________.
______________13. _____ means love of other living things.
______________14. According to a Immanuel Kant, “_________is the ultimately a symbol of morality.”
______________15. According to _____, humanity had dominated nature. There can only be change if we will change our attitude
towards our perception of the environment.
______________16. According to _____, as human beings we do not have only rights but duties. We are not only citizens of the
community but how we react to this community and in out reaction to it, change it.
______________17. In the early civilizations, human beings understood themselves in harmony with _____.
______________18. This means that the universe is reflected in us; we are a small version of the universe.
______________19. This approach refers to an understanding coming from a religious interpretation.
______________20. To _________ is to manage or to put something under your care.
______________21. According to the Encyclical Laudato Si of ________, “The human environment and the natural environment
deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and
social degradation.”
______________22. This approach is like the theocentric approach that puts the human person in dominion over the earth,
deemphasizes the role of God.
______________23. The development of ________ has made the human being aware that he can detach himself from the ongoing
cycle of nature and thereby control it.
______________24. Our ______ force us to confront our weaknesses and limitations.
______________25. When we ______, we are freed from our anger and bitterness because of the actions and/or words of another.
______________26. _________ means boundless.
______________27. _________ is a living embodiment of nature’s order, harmony and beauty.
______________28. According to _______, the beautiful encourage us to believe that nature and humanity are part of an even
bigger design.
______________29. Ultimately, Kant believes that the orderliness of nature of the harmony of nature guide us toward a deeper
________.
______________30. If Anaximander and Pythagoras are ancient thinkers, Immanuel Kant, George Herbert Mead and Herbert
Marcuse are ______.
II. Enumeration
Cite at least five examples of experiences of limitations and possibilities for transcendence.

III. True or False

Write true if the statement is correct and false if it is not.
_________1. In Hinduism, the existence of the body is a reality and a means to the realization of one’s real self.
_________2. According to the second noble truth, suffering is caused by passionate desires, lusts and cravings.
_________3. For St. Thomas Aquinas, Christianity as presenting the full revelation of the true God, is the only full and
true philosophy.
_________4. For St. Augustine, truth is attainable by reason though senses yield no certainty.
_________5. According to Kant, we must consider our practical motives or inclination instead of contemplating the
object.
_________6. The apeiron as arche means that it is the only the reality that underlies everything.
_________7. Our relation to the universe involves only cosmophilia(Love of other things).
_________8. Personal efforts are enough to fight for the environment because it is our consumeristic attitude that
damaged our environment.
_________9. Our desire for change and development sufficiently justifies our consumerism attitude towards
environment’s resources.
_________10. For Kant, the vision of the world is limited to knowledge and freedom or even to faith, in the ordinary
sense of the term.
IV. Essay
“Our embodied existence implies the paradox about the body. While the body limits us, the very same limitations
create opportunities for us.” Explain. (5 points)

Good luck!
Sir Raymond A. Maigue
 Key to Correction
I. Identification
1. Hinduism
2. The Aum(om)
3. spiritual and immortal
4. Moksha
5. Metempsychosis
6. Suffering
7. Theistic Hypothesis
8. Amor sapiential
9. Soul
10. Moral Agents
11. Cosmogony
12. Boundless/indefinite
13. Biophilia
14. Beauty
15. Herbert Marcuse
16. George Herbert Mead
17. Nature
18. Microcosm
19. Theocentric Approach
20. Steward
21. Pope Francis
22. Anthropocentric approach
23. experimental science
24. failures
25. forgive
26. Apeiron
27. Universe
28. Immanuel Kant
29. religious perspective
30. modern thinkers
II. Enumeration
1. Forgiveness
2. Beauty of Nature
3. Vulnerability
4. Loneliness
5. Love
Failure
III. True or false
1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE
6. FALSE
7. FALSE
8. TRUE
9. FALSE
10. FAlSE
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