GST 102 2011/2012 PAST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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1. The root meaning of Philosophy is ………

 (A) Wise love (B) Wisdom friendly (C) Wisdom lover (D) Wisdom friendship 

2. What is fatalism? 

(A) The belief that everything has a cause (B) The view that human beings do not have the power to change the course of events (C) The view that nothing happens without a cause (D) The belief that reality is mechanistic 

3. The concept of justice in Platonism consists of ……… (A) Doing the right and commendable thing (B) Goodness and uprightness (C) Promoting general interest or will (D) A situation where people of various classes limit their activities to the function prescribed by the state.

 4. Ethics is defined as the systematic study of the basic principles underlying ……… (A) Corruption (B) Elections (C) Morality (D) None of the above 5. Aristotle says that the respective goals of theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge are ……… (A) Essence and existence (B) A priori and a posterior (C) Truth and action (D) Theory and practice


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