Republic of the Philippines
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Sta. Maria, Bulacan Campus
UNDERSTANDING THE SELF – QUIZ NO. 1
NAME: SECTION:
I. INSTRUCTION: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is incorrect.
1. TRUE Empirical self-consciousness is the term Kant used to describe the
inner self.
2. TRUE Plato believed the soul exists before birth and after death.
3. FALSE Personal identity is in the brain and consciousness.
4. FALSE Philosophy is the study of acquiring knowledge through irrational
thinking and inquiries that involves in answering questions
regarding the nature and existence of man and the world we live
in.
5. TRUE Id is what Freud called as the pleasure principle.
6. TRUE Hume stated that the determinants of behavior are passions.
7. FALSE According to Merleu-Ponty, there is a duality of substances but
only the dialectic of living being in its biological milieu.
8. FALSE Gilbert Ryle stated that mental state is the same as the brain
state.
9. TRUE Tabula Rasa is a belief that you are born with your mind as a blank
slate and you learn all your behavior from the environment you
live in.
10. FALSE According to Plato, ultimate wisdom comes from knowing oneself.
II. INSTRUCTION: Write the name of the proponents of the following philosophical statements.
1. Socrates “An unexamined life is not worth living”
2. Paul Churchland The concepts and theoretical vocabulary we use to think about
ourselves actually misrepresent the reality of minds and selves.
3. Maurice Merleau-Ponty “I live in my body.”
4. Sigmund Freud Human beings are sexual beings.
5. St. Augustine From the sensible to the intelligible we will finally be able to
transcend ourselves and get in touch with the supreme being.
6. Plato There is both immaterial mind and material body, and it is the soul
that knows the forms.
7. Rene Descartes “Cogito ergo sum”
8. Gilbert Ryle “Only I am able to perceive and experience the states and
processes of my own mind”
9. Maurice Merleau-Ponty Any attempts to divide them into separate entities are artificial and
nonsensical.
10. Socrates “Know thyself”
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Sta. Maria, Bulacan Campus
UNDERSTANDING THE SELF – QUIZ NO. 1
NAME: SECTION:
I. INSTRUCTION: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is incorrect.
1. TRUE Empirical self-consciousness is the term Kant used to describe the
inner self.
2. TRUE Plato believed the soul exists before birth and after death.
3. FALSE Personal identity is in the brain and consciousness.
4. FALSE Philosophy is the study of acquiring knowledge through irrational
thinking and inquiries that involves in answering questions
regarding the nature and existence of man and the world we live
in.
5. TRUE Id is what Freud called as the pleasure principle.
6. TRUE Hume stated that the determinants of behavior are passions.
7. FALSE According to Merleu-Ponty, there is a duality of substances but
only the dialectic of living being in its biological milieu.
8. FALSE Gilbert Ryle stated that mental state is the same as the brain
state.
9. TRUE Tabula Rasa is a belief that you are born with your mind as a blank
slate and you learn all your behavior from the environment you
live in.
10. FALSE According to Plato, ultimate wisdom comes from knowing oneself.
II. INSTRUCTION: Write the name of the proponents of the following philosophical statements.
1. Socrates “An unexamined life is not worth living”
2. Paul Churchland The concepts and theoretical vocabulary we use to think about
ourselves actually misrepresent the reality of minds and selves.
3. Maurice Merleau-Ponty “I live in my body.”
4. Sigmund Freud Human beings are sexual beings.
5. St. Augustine From the sensible to the intelligible we will finally be able to
transcend ourselves and get in touch with the supreme being.
6. Plato There is both immaterial mind and material body, and it is the soul
that knows the forms.
7. Rene Descartes “Cogito ergo sum”
8. Gilbert Ryle “Only I am able to perceive and experience the states and
processes of my own mind”
9. Maurice Merleau-Ponty Any attempts to divide them into separate entities are artificial and
nonsensical.
10. Socrates “Know thyself”
