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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