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Which is not true about opinions?

Select one:
a. Opinions are based on beliefs and feelings.
b. They do not have to be based on logical reasoning.
c. They are statements of actuality and experience.

IDENTIFICATION:
In this book, wisdom was defined as the understanding of causes.

Answer: Metaphysics

He is the philosopher who formulated the so-called "context principle" in semantic


holism.

Select one:
a. GottlobFrege
b. Ludwig Wittgenstein
c. Donald Davidson
d. W.V.O. Quine

This is considered a means towards achieving a certain end, thus determining the
success of bringing about a particular purpose?

Answer:Instrumental Value

Consequentialist ethical theories maintain that whether an action is right or wrong is for
often independent of whether its consequences are good or bad.

Select
one: True
False
It refers to the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason.
Select one:
a. fortitude
b. prudence
c. frugality

What is the other term used for epistemological holism?

Select one:
a. confirmation
b. ontological
c. semantic
d. materialism

The other term for "wisdom" in philosophy

Select one:
a. knowledge
b. discernment
c. sapience

Lynn White sees religion as the basis of environmental

stewardship. Select one:


True
False

The Fallacy of Ad Hominem involves the rejection of some person's position not by
virtue of the argument itself, but by virtue of some unlikeable aspect of the person.?
Select
one: True
False

What doctrine states that a word acquires its meaning only within the context of a
proposition or sentence?

Select one:
a. philosophy of language
b. reductionism
c. context principle
d. complex system

George Sessions articulated the principles of the new Deep Ecology Movement
along with Arne Naess.

Select
one: True
False

Anthropocentric environmentalism is concerned with the conservation of the


environment only for exploitation by and for human purposes.

Select
one: True
False

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.
Select one:
True
False

Solertia is the Latin term for shrewdness, which is an integral part of prudence.

Select one:
True
False

IDENTIFICATION:
He referred to wisdom as "the right use of knowledge."

Answer:Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In W.V.O Quine's name, "O" stands for what?

Select one:
a. Orville
b. Orman
c. Oscar
d. Owen

Deep ecology is the argument for the intrinsic value or inherent worth of the
environment.

Select one:
True
False

IDENTIFICATION:
Aldo Leopold wrote this book in 1949 which emphasized the importance of giving
importance to land as an entity.

Answer:A Sand County Almanac

IDENTIFICATION:
Plato opposed the concept of transcendence by means of this principle, thus creating
another branch of philosophy known as:

Answer:Ontology

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.

Select one:
a. Critique of Pure Reason
b. Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
c. Being and Nothingness
d. Heaven and Hell

Arne Naess refers to this as the fight against pollution and resource depletion, the main
goal of which is the health and affluence of people in the developed countries.

Select one:
a. shallow ecology movement
b. deep ecology movement
c. utilitarianism

The Fallacy of Part and Whole consists in applying one standard for one group or
individual, and another standard for an opposing group or individual.

Select
one: True
False

This refers to the representation of the world or a way the world could possibly be.

Select one:
a. opinion
b. proposition
c. argument

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."

Select one:
True
False

What is the Greek term for "wisdom?"

Select one:
a. sophia
b. philos
c. Athena

Chris Argyris and Donald Schön conceptualized the idea of single-loop learning
and double-loop learning in what year?

Select one:
a. 1978
b. 1990
c. 1982
d. 1988

Peter Vardy argued that humans tend to assess things wrongly in terms of their
usefulness to us.

Select one:
False
True

The philosopher who introduced the term "transcendental" to better explain the
possibility of being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge

Answer: Immanuel Kant

The "Deep Ecology Movement" subscribes to anthropocentric environmentalism.

Select one:
True
False
According to Andrew Brennan, libertarian extension is one of the three general ethical
approaches in valuing our natural resources.

Select
one: True
False

The author of "Being and Nothingness," a book which mostly tackles transcendence

Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre

IDENTIFICATION:
King Solomon's teachings about wisdom was further narrated in this book of Holy Bible.

Answer:Ecclesiastes

This integral part of prudence refers to the understanding of first principles.

Select one:
a. foresight
b. intelligentia
c. memoria

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, prudence begins with an understanding of the first
principles of practical reason, also known as?

Select one:
a. synderesis
b. solertia
c. providentia

Which of these does not belong to Immanuel Kant's transcendental arguments?

Select one:
a. aggressive
b. no correct answer
c. regressive
d. progressive

The principle introduced by Edmund Husserl which is considered a major philosophical


movement in the twentieth century.

Select one:
a. mysticism
b. phenomenology
c. negative theology
d. stoicism

This book by Terry Borton popularized a learning cycle composed of the questions
"What" "So what?," and "Now what?"

Select one:
a. Both of the choices are true
b. Reach, Touch and Teach
c. None of the choices is true
d. The Reflective Practitioner

IDENTIFICATION:
The Christian philosopher who proposed that wisdom is the "father of all virtues."

Answer: Thomas Aquinas

This refers to a specific manner of consideration when it comes to how one sees
something.

Select one:
a. vantage point
b. point of view
c. world view
d. propositional attitude

It refers to the quality or state of being contained within the boundaries of a person, the
world, or the mind.

Select one:
a. stoicism
b. idealism
c. transcendentalism
d. immanence
His "looking out" notion in reflective practice was inspired by the work of Barbara
Carper's fundamental ways of knowing.

Select one:
a. Donald Schon
b. Chris Argyris
c. Christopher Johns
d. none of the choices
Environmental ethics refers to the crucial role of ethics in the study of relation of human
beings and the environment.

Select one:
True
False

IDENTIFICATION:
The god of wisdom in Hinduism

Answer: Ganesha

Ecologic extension focuses only on the worth of the environment in terms of its utility or
usefulness to humans.

Select
one: True
False

Moralism proposes to understand morality and assess the ethical quality of actions.

Select one:
False
True
It often refers to an experience with the divine or supreme being, which is conceived as
absolute or infinite.

Answer: Transcendence

IDENTIFICATION:
Taoists adhere to these as basis for their doctrine of wisdom.

Answer: Daoism

Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical "Laudatosi'" critiques consumerism, environmental


degradation, and global warming.

Select
one: True
False

He developed the concept of transcendental? Philosophy which he liberated from the


convergence of neo-Kantianism.

Select one:
a. David Hume
b. Jean-Paul Sartre
c. HaraldHolz
d. Carl Zimmer

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