GST 112 - LIKELY EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

 READ AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1.       _______ defined philosophy as a process of enwisdomization? (a) Aristotle (b) Socrates (c) Iroegbu (d) Aquinas

2.       Aristotle defined philosophy as _______ cognition of things in the Light of their ultimate justification (a) indestructible (b) indubitable (c) indefatigable (d) indivisible

3.       Philosophy concerns itself with all things (a) True (b) False (c) sometimes (d) disagreeable things

4.       Philosophy enables man to understand his meaning, existence and ultimate origin and destiny (a) false (b) true (c) untrue (d) not specific

5.       Philosophy started when men no longer accepted the mythological cum religious explanation of the world (a) false (b) uncertain (c) true (d) very specific

6.       _________ branded Plato’s idealism as metaphysical extravaganza (a) Socrates (b) Aristotle (c) Zeno (d) Empedocles

7.       _______ was the father of logic, epistemology, ethics and other branches of philosophy (a) Aristotle (b) Zeno (c) Hippias (d) Socrates

8.       _______ defined philosophy as the search into the ultimate reality and that man through natural reason can penetrate the ontos-logos (a) Socrates (b) Plato (c) Aristotle (d) Feyeberand

9.       Emperor Justinia closed the _______ academy at Athens (a) Lyceum (b) Platonic (c) Thales (d) Socrates

10.   _______ period of Ancient Greek Philosophy was not creative (a) Fourth (b) Third (c) Second (d) All of the above

11.   Another name for the medieval period is the ______ (a) age of religion (b) age of faith (c) age of wisdom (d) age of Dialectics

12.   Boethius wrote the book titled _______ (a) consolation of wealth (b) consolation of rigours (c) consolation of philosophy (d) consolation of powers

13.   Medieval Philosohy includes Christian, Islamic and Jewish philosophies (a) True (b0 False (c) Really sure (d) Not very sure

14.   Summa Theological was one of the books written by _______ (a) Thomas pain (b) Thomas Aquinas (c) Thomas Hobbes (d) Thomas Booth

15.   _______ was the period characterized by the realm of religion and the existence of God (a) Renaissance period (b) Medieval period (c) ancient period (d) modern period

16.   Faith and Reason and the Immortality of the soul were discourses that characterized the ______ period (a) Modern (b) Ancient (c) Contemporary (d) Medieval

17.   _______ was the era of diminishing authority of the church? (a) Modern (b) Ancient (c) Contemporary (d) Medieval

18.   ______ period was the apogee of materialism, reason and science? (a) Modern (b) Ancient (c) Contemporary (d) Medieval

19.   Rationalism, Empiricism and Idealism made up the ______ period (a) Medieval (b) Ancient (c) Contemporary (d) Modern

20.   Rene Descartes, Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz are proponents of rationalist tradition (a) True (b) Untrue (c) Realistic (d) Not really

21.   ______ said “the function of ‘philosophy’ should be logical clarification of thoughts” (a) Quine (b) Dubois (c) Wittgenstein (d) Dewey

22.   _______ reduced philosophy to mathematics and logic and discredited the common sense view of reality as nothing but naïve realism (a) Bertrand Russell (b) Rudolf Carnap (c) G. E. Moore (d) Marcel Gabriel

23.   The search for the good to be done and evil to be avoided is the basic goal of which branch of philosophy? (a) Axiology (b) Metaphysics (c) Epistemology (d) Logic

24.   When we study ‘value systems’, we are studying _______ (a) Aesthetics (b) Valuology (c) Ethics (d) all of the above

25.   _______ contributed two principles of contradiction and sufficient reason to modern philosophy (a) Descartes (b) Hume (c) Leibniz (d) Locke

26.   _______ was the last of the classical rationalist thinkers (a) Hume (b) Spinoza (c) Husserl (d) Ayer

27.   The German Idealists fueled the re-emergence of ______ (a) Idealism (b) Pragmatism (c) Realism (d) Essentialism

28.   The “Magna Opus” of _______ is titled ‘Phenomenology of Mind’ (a) Hegel (b) Gottfried (c) Hume (d) Husserl

29.   The statement ‘philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point however is to change it’ is credited to _______ (a) Karl Husserl (b) Hume David (c) Karl Max (d) John Locke

30.   One of the following is not an existentialist (a) J. P. Sartre (b) Martin Buber (c) Albert Camus (d) David Hume

31.   Value falls under a branch of philosophy called ______ (a) Axiology (b) Philosophy of Beauty (c) Aesthetics (d) Epistemology

32.   The central focus of Epistemology is ______ (a) Knowledge (b) Argument (c) Statements (d) All of the above

33.   The doctrine of economic determinism is attributed to ______ (a) Karl Marx (b) Karl Jasper (c) Karl Bertrand (d) Karl Hegel

34.   Knowledge could be sourced from all EXCEPT _____ (a) authority (b) deduction (c) revelation (d) experience

35.   One of these is a moral philosopher (a) Socrates (b) Thales (c) Anaximenes (d) Heraclitus

36.   Cheating in the exam is an _______ problem (a) Epistemological (b) Aesthetical (c) Ethical (d) Philosophical

37.   Peter Bodurin, Kwasi Wiredu, Paulin Hountondji are members of the ______ school of African philosophy (a) Eurocentric (b) Afrocentric (c) Ethnocentric (d) all of the above

38.   Examination malpractice is _______ issue (a) logical (b) metaphysical (c) axiological (d) epistemological

39.   ______ provides moral principles that x-rays the good and bad actions (a) Descriptive ethics (b) Normative ethics (c) Teleological Ethics (d) Meta Ethics

40.   The primary concern of normative ethics is _________

41.   _______ guides us when we aim at achieving coherent mental picture (a) Value (b) Aesthetics (c) Art (d) Aetiology

42.   The area of axiology that deals with art and beauty is _______ (a) Aesthetics (b) Ethics (c) Geodetics (d) Aerology

43.   Philosophy is both a first order discipline and a _______ order discipline (a) Thought (b) Second (c) Fourth (d) Final

44.   The major branches of philosophy are ______ (a) axiology, ethics, epistemology, logic (b) Epistemology, Metaphysics, Axiology, Logic (c) Aesthetics, Ethics, Logic, Geology (d) None of the above

45.   Normative Ethics is sub-divided into ______ and _______ (a) Teleological and Deontological (b) Geological and Deontological (c) Biological and Axiological (d) All of the above



46.   ‘…Esse est precipi’ was theory propounded by ______ (a) George Berkeley (b) Bertrand Russell (c) Benedict Spinoza (d) John Locke

47.   Descartes and Leibniz are ________ philosophers (a) rationalist (b) Empiricist (c) Continentalist (d) European

48.   “Existence precedes Essence” is a statement attributed to ______ (a) J. P. Sartre (b) J. P. Moore (c) G. E. Moore (d) J. P. Morgan

49.   Appearance and Reality, Change and Permanence are examples of ______ (a) Metaphysical problems (b) Epistemological problems (c) Axiological problems (d) Religious problems

50.   _________ said that ‘human knowledge is impossible’ (a) Skeptics (b) Analysts (c) Doubters (d) Pessimists

51.   The statement ‘man know thyself’ was made by _______ (a) Aristotle (b) Socrates (c) Heraclitus (d) Thracymacus

52.   Philosophy as a second discipline is to _______ evaluate the principles, concepts and methods of other discipline (a) Critically (b) Persuasively (c) Hierarchically (d) Arguably

53.   Philosophy has the capacity to play a _______ order role to almost any discipline (a) First (b) Second (c) Third (d) Fourth

54.   Science emanates from the Latin word _______ (a) Sapiential (b) Scientia (c) Scietia (d) Scotia

55.   One of the following is not a characteristic of science (a) Specific (b) Impersonal (c) Public (d) Subjective

56.   ______ wrote the book titled ‘Structure of Scientific Revolution’ (a) Thomas Paine (b) Thomas Bane (c) Thomas Hobbes (d) Thomas Kuhn

57.   _______ classified science into normal, abnormal and revolutionary science (a) Thomas Paine (b) Thomas Kuhn (c) Thomas Hobbes (d) Thomas Bane

58.   Those who are against law are regarded as _______ (a) Deviants (b) Truants (c) Criminals (d) Jobbers

59.   ________ wrote the book titled ‘Theoretic Basis of Law’ (a) Lord Fuller (b) Hans Kelsen (c) F. Kessler (d) John Austin

60.   One of the following is not a proponent of natural law (a) Aristotle (b) Cicero (c) Thomas Aquinas (d) Hans Kelsen

61.   All EXCEPT ONE belongs to the positivist school (a) John Austin (b) Jeremy Bentham (c) Aristotle (d) H.A.L. Hart

62.   The specificity of science means that it is verifiable and ______ (a) Knowable (b) Observable (c) Receivable (d) Exemptible

63.   According to J. Aigbodion “that science is impersonal means it does not involve in idiosyncratic belief” (a) True (b) False (c) Carefully (d) All of the above

64.   All EXCEPT ONE was authored by Niccolo Machiavelli (a) The Art of War (b) The Prince (c) The Florentine Histories (d) The Beast of Burden

65.   ______ said ‘the Death of God was the discovery of man’s creativity’? (a) Hobbes (b) Nietzsche (c) Descartes (d) Locke

66.   One of the following is not a metaphysical problem (a) God (b) Heaven (c) Hell (d) Stone

67.   The Material World is purely a material substance is a statement attributed to _____ (a) Russell (b) Plato (c) Bentham (d) all of the above

68.   _______ said ‘that the material world is a copy of the World of idea or Form’? (a) Plato (b) Heraclitus (c) Husserl (d) Hudson

69.   Skepticism is a problem of ______ (a) Metaphysics (b) Ethics (c) Logic (d) Epistemology

70.   _______ is a problem of Logic (a) Deduction (b) Reduction (c) Deducing (d) all of the above

71.   The view that science is dispassionate and unprejudiced is a fulfilment of the ______ characteristic of science (a) Public (b) Impersonal (c) Dependable (d) None of the above

72.   According to Karl Popper, science should come up with ‘conjectures’ that are ______ (a) verifiable (b) falsifiable (c) reliable (d) regrettable

73.   As for Karl Popper, there is no _______ in science (a) Falsehood (b) Objectivity (c) Truth (d) A and B

74.   The Natural Law is the application of law based on _______ reason (a) Unitary (b) Universal (c) Unifying (d) Unified

75.   According to the Lakatosian Idea of Science, the hard core of science is the ______ aspect (a) Unquestionable (b) Questionable (c) Questionnaire (d) Calculation

76.   St. Augustine wrote ‘Confession’ and ‘The City of God’ (a) False (b) True (c) Not really (d) Suggestively

77.   Machiavelli explored the ______ of man in the area of governance (a) Philosophy (b) Physiotherapy (c) Psychology (d) All of the above

78.   Machiavelli’s political philosophy questions the _______ and dependability of human character (a) Loyalty (b) Attribute (c) Generosity (d) Hospitability

79.   _______ believe that human beings are pure material beings (a) Substance Monist (b) Substance Dualist (c) Monist (d) Mentalist

80.   One of these is not a common feature ascribed to human person (a) Remembrance (b) Emotions (c) Intelligence (d) Demonic

81.   John Locke is an example of _______ (a) dualist (b) substance dualist (c) monist (d) None of the above

82.   ______ wrote the work titled ‘An Essay Concerning Human Understanding’ (a) Bertrand Russell (b) Thomas Hobbes (c) John Locke (d) David Hume

83.   Consciousness is the foundation for knowledge (a) True (b) False (c) Real (d) Perfect

84.   For John Locke, _______ consists human consciousness that endures through time in all human activities (a) Personal character (b) Personal Identity (c) Personal attribute (d) Personal Influence

85.   Fundamental Issues in Philosophy is as a result of _______ answer to issues of life (a) univocal (b) different (c) critical (d) possible

86.   All that glitters is not gold is an example of which problem of philosophy? (a) Mind and Body (b) Substance and Accident (c) Essence and Existence (d) Appearance and Reality

87.   Philosophy as a human reflection on the fundamental issues of life is only found among ______ (a) Africans (b) Greeks (c) Germans (d) All rational beings

88.   The concept of ‘evil’ simply means ________ (a) ignorance (b) wickedness (c) Deprivation of good (d) Exemplary wickedness

89.   Which of the following is NOT a political philosopher (a) Hobbes (b) Marx (c) Locke (d) Kant

90.   One of the following is NOT an Ethical Theory (a) Hedonism (b) Situationism (c) Egoism (d) Scientism

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