Module 2

Question 1

Focuses on the kinds of substances or materials and capacities that uniquely make up a human person

Answer 1

Metaphysical approach

Question 2

Focused on the kind of life, or mode of existence, that is unique to a human person. It examines the essential components of a human person and the essential features of the human way of life

Answer 2

Existential approach

Question 3

He describes the metaphysical approach as dealing with the what of a human person and the existential approach as dealing with the who of a human person

Answer 3

Martin Heidegger

Question 4

It connotes two meanings: as bridge and as wall

Answer 4

Intermediary

Question 5

Emphasizes its life-giving function

Answer 5

Soul

Question 6

Emphasizes its consciousness

Answer 6

Mind

Question 7

Emphasizes its nonbodily, nonbiological, or nonphysical nature

Answer 7

Spirit

Question 8

THREE POSSIBLE ANSWERS

Answer 8

• Unspirited body view
• Disembodied spirit view
• Embodied spirit view

Question 9

A human person is essentially just his/her body and nothing more. This position naturally results from the belief that humans do not have a spiritual component

Answer 9

Unspirited body view

Question 10

A human person is essentially just his/her spirit. This view maintains that the human person has both body and spirit but claims that it is the spirit that essentially defined the human person

Answer 10

Disembodied spirit view

Question 11

A human person is essentially the unity of his/her body and spirit. This view also maintains the human person has both body and spirit but claims that the human person is essentially the unity of these two components

Answer 11

Embodied spirit view

Question 12

Claims that what we call the “mind” is nothing but the brain, and what we call “mental states” are nothings but the neural states of the brain

Answer 12

Mind-brain identity theory

Question 13

Claims that what we call “mental states” simply refer to one’s inclinations or tendencies to show certain behaviors

Answer 13

Behaviorism

Question 14

The spirit and the body are two different kinds of entities or substances in that the body is physical while the spirit is nonphysical

Answer 14

Substance dualism

Question 15

Plato believes in this which means that the soul travels from one body to another

Answer 15

Reincarnation

Question 16

Recollection/remembering

Answer 16

Anamnesis

Question 17

He views reality as composed of two different types of substances, namely, mind (the nonphysical kind) and matter (the physical kind)

Answer 17

Rene Descartes

Question 18

Descartes’ famous remarks that means “I think, therefore I am.”

Answer 18

Cogito Ergo Sum

Question 19

It is extended in space but not conscious. Being physical, it is determined by the laws of nature and thus is not free or has no free will. It includes plants, animals, human bodies, and the rest of nature

Answer 19

Matter

Question 20

It is conscious but not extended in space. Being nonphysical, is not determined by such laws and thus us free or has free will. It include the imperfect minds of humans and the perfect mind of God

Answer 20

Mind

Question 21

In this doctrine, Aristotle stated that the body and soul are in state of unity

Answer 21

Hylomorphic doctrine

Question 22

He explains to us the four orders of beings in this world which are properly called hylomorphic namely, nonliving bodies, plants, animals, and men

Answer 22

Aristotle

Question 23

A set of system of capacities or abilities that gives life to something

Answer 23

Soul

Question 24

He cognize things sensitively and intellectually. He is called animal because he is no different from any other animals

Answer 24

Man as a rational animal

Question 25

An intellectual process where a man undergo to give the meaning of the things he can see as it is

Answer 25

Ideogenesis

Question 26

He was regarded of Christianizing the philosophy of Aristotle.

Answer 26

St. Thomas Aquinas