IDENTIFICATION:
According to Confucius, this is "the bitterest way" to acquire wisdom.
Answer:
experience
His "looking out" notion in reflective practice was inspired by the work of Barbara Carper's fundamental
ways of knowing.
-Christopher Johns
Kant used transcendental arguments to show that sensory experiences would not be possible apart from
our contributing to them their spatial and temporal form, as narrated in this book.
-Critique of Pure Reason
The author of "The Reflective Practitioner," a book that introduced the concept of reflection-inaction which explain how professionals meet the challenges of their work with a kind of improvisation.
-Donald Schon
This book by Terry Borton popularized a learning cycle composed of the questions "What" "So what?,"
and "Now what?"
-Reach, Touch and Teach
He referred to wisdom as "the right use of knowledge."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Answer:
The principle introduced by Edmund Husserl which is considered a major philosophical movement in the
twentieth century.
-phenomenology
IDENTIFICATION:
King Solomon's teachings about wisdom was further narrated in this book of Holy Bible.
Answer:
Ecclesiastes
This philosophical movement arose to protest against the general state ?of intellectualism and
spirituality during the late 1820's.
Select one:
a. transcendentalism
b. mysticism
c. stoicism
d. German Idealism
The number of steps involved in Graham Gibbs' full structured debriefing.
-6
Which is not true about opinions?
-They are statements of actuality and experience.
IDENTIFICATION:
A statement that expresses someone's belief, view, or judgment about something/someone.
Answer:
opinion
What doctrine states that a word acquires its meaning only within the context of a proposition or
sentence?
-context principle
Taoists adhere to these as basis for their doctrine of wisdom.
Answer:
Three Treasures
The principle of holism was summarized in "Metaphysics", written by which philosopher?
-Aristotle
IDENTIFICATION:
The god of wisdom in Hinduism
Answer:
Ganesha
IDENTIFICATION:
In this book, wisdom was defined as the understanding of causes.
Answer:
Metaphysics
In W.V.O Quine's name, "O" stands for what?
-Orman
Known as the "father of phenomenology"
Answer:
Edmund Husserl
What is the Greek term for "all" or "total"?
-Holos
His book "Heaven and Hell" gives a detailed description of the afterlife, how people live after
the death of the physical body.
-Emanuel Swedenborg
The other term for "wisdom" in philosophy
-sapience
What is the other term used for epistemological holism?
-confirmation
Which of the following is the South African statesman who introduced the term "holism" in a book he
wrote in 1926?
-Jan Smuts
This book written by Immanuel Kant was used to argue for a deep interconnection between the ability
to have self-consciousness and experience a world of objects.
-Critique of Pure Reason
The word "transcendence" comes from the Latin term "transcendere" which mean what?
-to go beyond
In the context of philosophy of language, this refers to the position that sentences have meaning that
are independent of their relations to other sentences or beliefs.
-Atomism
Chris Argyris and Donald Schön conceptualized the idea of single-loop learning and double-loop learning
in what year?
-1978
Plato opposed the concept of transcendence by means of this principle, thus creating another branch of
philosophy known as:
-ontology
It often refers to an experience with the divine or supreme being, which is conceived as absolute or
infinite.
-Transcendence
It is used in phenomenology to refer to the terminus of an intention as given for consciousness.
-noema
The Christian philosopher who proposed that wisdom is the "father of all virtues."
-Thomas Aquinas
What kind of holism states that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an
empirical test, but only a set of statements?
-confirmation holism
He is the philosopher who formulated the so-called "context principle" in semantic holism.
-Gottlob Frege
He developed the concept of transcendental? Philosophy which he liberated from the convergence of
neo-Kantianism.
-Harald Holz
It refers to the quality or state of being contained within the boundaries of a person, the world, or the
mind.
-immanence
The author of "Being and Nothingness," a book which mostly tackles transcendence
-Jean-Paul Sartre
What is the Greek term for "wisdom?"
-sophia
This refers to the representation of the world or a way the world could possibly be.
-proposition
This refers to a specific manner of consideration when it comes to how one sees something.
-point of view
It is a statement that is objective in nature and well-supported by evidence.
-fact
Which of these does not belong to Immanuel Kant's transcendental arguments?
-aggressive
The philosopher who introduced the term "transcendental" to better explain the possibility of being
beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge
-Immanuel Kant
The philosopher who stated that opinion is intermediary between knowledge and ignorance
-Plato
The principle introduced by Edmund Husserl which is considered a major philosophical movement in the
twentieth century.
-phenomenology
Week 7
Materialism refers to the monistic theory that the world consists purely of matter.
-True
George Sessions articulated the principles of the new Deep Ecology Movement along with Arne Naess.
-True
The "Deep Ecology Movement" subscribes to anthropocentric environmentalism.
-False
Environmentalism is the position that humans are the most important or critical element in any given
situation; that the human race must always be its own primary concern.
-False
Ecologic extension focuses only on the worth of the environment in terms of its utility or usefulness to
humans.
-False
Deep ecology is the argument for the intrinsic value or inherent worth of the environment.
-True
He claimed that humanity and all other beings are aspects of a single unfolding reality.
-Warwick Fox
Tom Regan introduced the so-called "non-identity problem," which states that we do not have
obligations to future people because there is no definitive group of individuals to whom such obligations
are owed.
-False
James Lovelock's "Gaia Hypothesis" states that "the planet earth alters its geo-physiological structure
over time in order to ensure the continuation of an equilibrium of evolving organic and inorganic
matter."
-True
This is considered a means towards achieving a certain end, thus determining the success of bringing
about a particular purpose?
-instrumental value
Sheila Collins emphasized the importance of feminism to the environmental movement and various
other liberation movements, arguing that the domination of women by men is historically the original
form of domination in human society.
-False
Prudential Anthropocentrism
Enlightened or
recognizes that duties towards the environment emanate
from our duties to its human inhabitants?
Environmental ethics is a branch of applied philosophy that studies the conceptual foundations of
environmental values
-True
Anthropocentric environmentalism is concerned with the conservation of the environment only for
exploitation by and for human purposes.
-True
He posits the uniqueness of all animals and broadens the scope of the moral obligation of care to
include all individual beings
-Marti Kheel
Which of these is not a proposition under the deep ecology principle?
-no correct answer
Environmental ethics refers to the crucial role of ethics in the study of relation of human beings and the
environment.
-True
Moralism proposes to understand morality and assess the ethical quality of actions.
-False
It is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to the environment
and its non-human contents.
-Environmental Ethics
Lynn White sees religion as the basis of environmental stewardship.
-True
Week 9
James Lovelock's "Gaia Hypothesis" states that "the planet earth alters its geo-physiological structure
over time in order to ensure the continuation of an equilibrium of evolving organic and inorganic
matter."
-True
In Cartesian philosophy, the integral parts of prudence are the elements that must be present for any
complete or perfect act of the virtue.
-False
Aldo Leopold wrote this book in 1949 which emphasized the importance of giving importance to land as
an entity.
-A Sand County Almanac
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, prudence begins with an understanding of the first principles of
practical reason, also known as?
-synderesis
The ability to discern and apply higher laws to matters that fall outside the scope of the more common
or lower rules that typically guide human action is called synesis.
-False
This is where the circumstances must be weighed to determine the correct action.
-prudential judgment
Solertia is the Latin term for shrewdness, which is an integral part of prudence.
-True
Foresight is the ability to take all relevant circumstances into account.
-False
Which of these is not an integral part of prudence?
-wisdom
According to Andrew Brennan, libertarian extension is one of the three general ethical approaches in
valuing our natural resources.
-False
This integral part of prudence refers to the understanding of first principles.
-intelligentia
It is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to the environment
and its non-human contents.
-Environmental Ethics
In this book, Aristotle maintains that nature has made all things specifically for the sake of man and that
the value of non-human things in nature is merely instrumental.
-Politics
Ecologic extension focuses only on the worth of the environment in terms of its utility or usefulness to
humans.
-False