Finals philo

Question 1

known for his defense of behaviorism, a view claiming that human behavior is conditioned

Answer 1

Burrhus Frederic Skinner

(B.F Skinner)

Question 2

Man does not exist as an immaterial conscious controller but merely a physical being determined by
the physical laws of nature

Answer 2

TOTAL DETERMINISM

Question 3

the reaction of any organism to stimuli is a result of controlled behavior

Cause and Effect
Relation

Answer 3

STIMULUS-RESPONSE THEORY

Question 4

why is Skinner’s theory problematic?

Answer 4

“man can never be reduced to the automatic reactions to the stimuli as found in his environment”

Question 5

Man is determined by_____________

Answer 5

his historicity

Question 6

___________ , __________ ,
___________ , structures influence my behavior

Answer 6

Genetic, biological, and physical

Question 7

a French Philosopher whose purpose is to understand human existence rather
than the world as such

Answer 7

Jean-Paul Sartre

Question 8

Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself

Answer 8

ABSOLUTE FREEDOM

Question 9

the three types of being

Answer 9

En-soi (in-itself), pour-soi (for-itself), pour-autrui (for-others)

Question 10

a totality of how a person lived his/her
life

Answer 10

Existence

Question 11

the nature or whatness of a human person

Answer 11

Essence

Question 12

Man is _________ because he is always in the process of ________.

Answer 12

undefined, becoming

Question 13

The point of human reality is that integral human existence includes both structures and freedom

Answer 13

STRUCTURED FREEDOM

Question 14

ignores man’s history and structure or tries to wish it out of existence

Answer 14

Absolute Indeterminism

Question 15

According to ___________________ , man can form his own life project, and yet he cannot deny the
importance of the environment in helping these
potentialities become actualized

Answer 15

Abraham Maslow

Question 16

known for his book Ich und Du (I and Thou), which distinguishes between “I-Thou” and “IIt” modes of existence

Answer 16

Martin
Buber

Question 17

An event that happens between two persons. Each one recognizes the other as a person

Answer 17

Interhuman

Question 18

Refers to two human beings in an interhuman relations. The awareness of the other’s capacity to unfold

Answer 18

Intersubjectivity

Question 19

___________ requires acceptance
regardless of differences and not imposing on
others.

Answer 19

Interhuman relation

Question 20

what is an “i-thou” relation?

Answer 20

• The I is unified with the Thou.
• Subjective relationship
• A life fully realizing the meaning of being with
  someone, to make someone complete
• It is the person himself that one gives importance and value, not the attributes and qualities
• Unity of being

Question 21

what is an “i-it” relation?

Answer 21

• Things are of value because of the purpose that we put into them
• Objective relationship
• Functionality
• We perceive each other as consisting of specific, isolated qualities and view ourselves as part of a
  world which consists of things
• Inescapable relation

Question 22

Showing what one really is.

Answer 22

BEING

Question 23

Presenting a projected image of oneself

Answer 23

SEEMING

Question 24

_____________ claimed that he was developing a “first
philosophy” called Ethics

Answer 24

Emmanuel Levinas

Question 25

___________ is the foundation of all beings, the awareness of man’s moral responsibility towards the other

Answer 25

Ethics

Question 26

The source of responsibility

Answer 26

the face

Question 27

Ultimate Mandate of the face

Answer 27

“THOU SHALL NOT KILL”

Question 28

An ethical relationship that knows no boundaries or rules

Answer 28

Infinite Responsibility

Question 29

__________ is the first virtue of institutions

Answer 29

Justice

Question 30

An impulsive reaction to contingent or transitory moments

Answer 30

feeling

Question 31

The transcendence of feeling-state

Answer 31

emotion

Question 32

____________ can only be grounded in one’s honesty

Answer 32

Authentic commitment

Question 33

The act of being for someone is not limited to communication and physical presence, but communion between two beings

Answer 33

Prescence

Question 34

Ultimate act of freedom, unconditional Presence goes beyond physical existence is Eternal, death destroys only the physical state of one’s being

Answer 34

love

Question 35

____________ ’s concern is to describe the condition of a being that faces its own impending death

Answer 35

Martin Heidegger

Question 36

One’s knowledge of death is a result of _________________

Answer 36

our being immersed in a crowd

Question 37

-A life lived in its momentary or lousy states --Linear and purposeless

Answer 37

inauthentic life

Question 38

- Man must face the possibility of death as his own possibility - Anticipation of the possibility of death - Man must realize that death is his own-most possibility

Answer 38

authentic life

Question 39

A person existing in the world, not an abstract concept

Answer 39

Dasein

Question 40

Man as a Not-yet because .....

Answer 40

the existence of man is in the process of completing one’s being

Question 41

Death is....

Answer 41

the fulfillment of the being of man

Question 42

6 characteristics of death

Answer 42

1. one’s ownmost 2. Non-relational 3. Cannot be outstripped 4. Certain 5. Indefinite 6. Non-surpassable

Question 43

what is our greatest fear that makes us anxious of death?

Answer 43

being separated from the ones we love

Question 44

Death when accepted as a possibility is an experience of freedom

Answer 44

MORTALITY AND FREEDOM