COMPILATION OF 100 PHL 101 QUESTIONS

BY: LAWAL SHERIF AND ADEWUNMI KOREDE

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

NOTE:These questions are not your exam questions for PHL 101. They are just meant to guide
you in your reading. Also to test you on whichever part you are missing from the slide. If you still
seem not to understand any part of the slides or if any of these questions seem tricky, you can
check the slides on this course or better still contact Hon. SHERIF on 09088770669 (WhatsApp)
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1. During the time of Socrates, philosophy is defined as

_________________________________.
2. For Socrates, wisdom means __________________________.
3. St. Thomas Aquinas in his work ________________ gave five philosophical arguments
for the existence of God.
4. Those five arguments popularly know as the five ways can be classified into two,
__________ and __________________ arguments for the existence of God.
5. What does identity theory hold? _________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________.
6. Is it possible for anything to exist without a cause? YES/NO.
7. The search for the cause of causes of things will lead to ______________.
8. “A first efficient” means _________________________________ according to St.
Aquinas.
9. According to St. Aquinas in his argument from design claims that God exists as
______________.
10.Biology, chemistry, physics etc were under ______________ sciences which was in turn
under philosophy before separation.
11.According to St. Aquinas in his first cause argument claims that God exists as
______________.
12.____________________ argued against St. Aquinas’ argument for the existence of God.
13.According to __________________, morality is necessary for humans to exist peacefully.
14.______________ is a religious position that God exists and can be known.
15.Defining philosophy be examples, then philosophy is definable as
___________________.
16.______________ is the view that only one God exists for the purpose of worship.
17.One objection to the theory of occasionalism is that _____________________________
___________________________________________________________________.
18.______________ is the position that several gods exist.
19.The theory of occasionalism was championed by ____________________________.
20.______________ is the position that God is nature.
21.______________ is a position that God does not exist.
22.According to Bentham and Mill, consequences ought to be evaluated according to the
principles of _______________________ and _______________.
23.Ethical utilitarianism is a forward-looking theory because it focuses on ___________ of
actions to determine its rightness or wrongness.
24.Ethical utilitarianism, egoism and altruism is under ________________ ethical theory.
25.What are the two variants of ethical utilitarianism? ______________________ and
____________________.
26.____________________ ethical theory doesn’t recognize the interest of the minority.
27.Among the problems of ethical egoism is that ethical egoism promotes ____________.
28.Kantian ethics and divine command theory is under ______________ ethical theory.
29.Kantian ethics is a theory related to ________________.
30.Immanueul Kant lived between ________ and __________.
31.What are the two principles Kant emphasized on? _______________________ and
_________________________________________________________________.
32.Descartes was a/an _____________ and ______________ because he belived that the
mind and body had a causal link.
33.Other followers of Descartes’ tradition later suggested that the causal link between mind
and body was ________________.
34.The etymology of the word “philosophy” is from a _____________ word which means
_____________________
35.What is categorical imperative? ________________________________________
36.What does Kant mean as “Autonomy of the will or authority of the conscience”
__________________________________________________________________
37._______________ holds that an unexamined life is not worth living.
38.______________ is a position that there is no sufficient evidence that God exists, neither
is there sufficient evidence that God does not exist.
39.______________ is a position that God exists and he created nature and everything in it.
40.The teleological arguments are the argument from _________________ and ___________
41._______________ is the position that God is nature.
42.According to St. Aquinas in his argument from motion claims that God exists as
______________.
43._______________ is the position that nature is in God.
44.Parallelism can also be called _________________________.
45.According to Bertrand Russell, the primary aim of philosophy is
___________________________.
46.Another solution to the body-mind problem was presented by a German philosopher
called ____________________ under the _____________________ theory.
47.Leibniz lived for _____ years which is between _________ and ________.
48.Identify two problems to the theory of pre-established Harmony:-
________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________.
49.Epiphenomenalism theory states that
_____________________________________Interactionism argues that
______________________________________________.
50.Identity theory is associated with three philosophers which are _________________,
__________________ and _____________________.
51.Occassionalism is a theory that argues ________________________________________.
_______________________________________________________________________
52.________________ theory is a form of dualism which denies any interaction between
mind and body.
53.Behaviourism holds that _______________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________.
54.What does central state materialism hold?
________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________.
55.Philosophy is an activity which aims at pursuing the truth through?
________________________.
56.Before the medieval period, ___________________ was used to prove the existence of
God.
57.The cosmological arguments are the arguments from _________,
____________________ and the argument from ______________.
58.The theory of central state materialism can be traced to ________________________ and
was developed by _________________, ________________ and _______________.
59.Metaphysics is from latin word _______________ which means
_______________________.
60.The origin of metaphysics can be traced to ________ B.C.
61.The focus of metaphysics could be divided into two which are _________________
__________________________________ and ______________________________.
62.What is the double aspect theory saying in one sentence? _______________________
___________________________________________________________________.
63.The idea of body-mind problem was made popular by _________________________.
64._________________ defined philosophy as the unity of theory and practice in his book
____________________.
65.Before Descartes, a philosopher known as ______________ identified mind and body as
two distinct entities in his book known as ___________________.
66.Aristotle defined the mind as the active reason or the intellect, that is separate or
independent of the body in his work ________________.
67.Descartes supported his claim that the mind and the body are two dinstinct substances
with three arguments which are _____________________, ____________________ and
___________________________.
68.Cogito ergo sum is from a _____________ (Greek/Latin) word which means
________________________.
69.What are the two forms of behaviourism? ________________ & ________________.
70.According to Russell, philosophy aims at the kind which gives
____________________________ and the kind of knowledge which results from
_________________________________________.
71.The mind-body problem is summarized in the words of _________________ which is
________________________________________________________________________
72.“What exactly are the relations between the mental and the physical, and in particular how
can there be causal relations between
them?___________________________________________________________________
_____
73._________________ and ____________ are the two types of dualism which means
__________________________________________________________________ and
___________________________________________________ respectively.
74.State Russell’s counter argument to St. Aquinas’ argument for the existence of God
___________________________________________________________________.
75._________________ and ____________ are the two types of monism.
76.The utilitarian principle was formulated by __________________ and ______________.
77.The Principle of utility states that _________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________.
78._________________________________ and __________________________________
are the two basic claims incorporated by the divine command theory.
79.Socrates defines philosophy as ____________________________________________.
 80.Bertrand Russell defines philosophy as ___________________________________.
81.Karl Marx defines philosophy as ________________________________________.
82.__________________ defined philosophy as contemplation.
83.______________ is the position that everything is in God.
84.__________________, ____________________ and __________________ are the three
sub-divisions of ethics.
85.The debate about the existence of God falls under
________________________________.
86.__________________________________, _______________________________,
_________________________________, __________________________________, and
_______________________________ are part of the fundamental questions normative
ethics raises.
87.According to St. Aquinas in his argument from gradation claims that God exists as
____________________________.
88.________________________is another name for normative ethics.
89.________________________ is another name for applied ethics.
90._______________ is concerned with Ontology.
91.Ontology is the study of ________________________________________________.
92.What is ethics? ________________________________________________________.
93.What are the branches of philosophy? _____________________________________
___________________________________________________________________.
94.What is metaphysics? __________________________________________________.
95.What is utilitarianism? __________________________________________________.
96.What is normative ethics? ________________________________________________.
97.What is ethical deontology? ______________________________________________.
98.What is the principle of universality? _______________________________________.
99.Define what the two branches of normative ethics mean? ________________________.
100. Who and who compiled this questions? (_______S__________________________
and _______________________) and they are from what department? _____________.

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