The knowledge students should acquire after passing course

-student must know about philosophical and religious notions of human life’s essence and prescriptions.

- about truth and error, rational and irrational correlations.

- about personality forming conditions, about basic scientific schools, conceptions, doctrines, and source of humanitarian knowledge.

Test questions.

1. When did philosophy begin?

a) 6th Century B.C.

b) 17th Century B.C.

c) 4th Century B.C.

d) 19th Century B.C.

e) 9th Century B.C.

2. Where did philosophy begin?

a) in Ancient Egypt

b) in Ancient England

c) in Ancient Spain

d) in Ancient Greece

e) in Middle East

3. The first "scientists" in Ancient Greece were called…

a) thinkers

b) clever men

c) natural philosophers

d) ideal philosophers

e) speakers

4. Complete the sentence. Philosophy is …

a) mathematical science .

b)the form of human spiritual activity

c) the way of the death

d) the form of the art

e) the form of the exercises

5. What does philosophy involve?

a) reflection about computer programmer

b) reflection about pronunciation skills

c) funny stories

d) detectives

e) reflection about aims, meaning, sense and essence of personality taken as subject of culture.

6. The main peculiarity of philosophy is:

a) study relationship between personality and society or objective reality.

b) study animal’s life

c) study the nature

d) study television programmers

e) study student activity

7. What schools the fundamental question of philosophy connected with?

a) pragmatism and naturalism

b) deconstruction and hermeneutics

c) materialism and idealism

d) rationalism and theocentrism

e) cosmocentrism and scientism

8. Why does philosophy differ from mythology very much.

a) because mythology involves the belief to the God, explanation of our reality’s by the God’s will.

b) because mythology uses rational thinking

c) because mythology involves oral explanations

d) because mythology involves new scientific methods

e) because mythology tries to explain the origin of the objective reality through human consciousness

9. Choose the right sentence.

a) mythology helped humanity to investigate the atom.

b) mythology relied upon scientific methods

c) mythology is new form of thinking

d) mythology is a part of theoretical philosophy.

e) mythology consist of notions of an all – powerful God is in control of everything.

10. What philosophical school claims that origins of our world is an idea (God, God’s mind, universal intelligence, universal reason or absolute spirit ).

a) materialistic

b) empiricist

c) rationalistic

d) idealistic

e) scientistic

11. What discipline tries to explain that moral principles have an objective foundation.

a) philosophy

b) biology

c) mathematics

d) theosophy

e) history

12. The main function of philosophy is:

a) to bring a happiness to humanity

b) to preserve spiritual values and to form scientific worldview (philosophy).

c) to discover religious doctrines

d) to make the world beautiful

e) to solve mathematical tasks

13. Complete the sentence. Philosophy is humanitarian discipline, it learns students to…

a) develop their physical ability

b) improve their pronunciation

c) develop their technical skills

d) strengthen their passion

e) develop their thinking and speech.

14. What does philosophy usually use?

a) scientific methods of cognition.

b) religious dogmas

c) human intuition

d) will of power

e) power of love

15 Complete the sentence. By the materialism - our reality is made of …

a) Divine ideas

b) water

c) cosmo energy

d) material staff

e) human energy

16. The fundamental question of the human is:

a) essence of his life

b) how much does my life cost ?

c) how much will I have children?

d) have I will of love

e) essence of his passion

17. Call the scientific methods of cognition.

a) analysis, synthesis, intuition

b) theory, analogy, analysis, power of the will

c) experiment, theory, analogy, analysis, synthesis.

d) power of the passion, analysis, synthesis

e) analysis, synthesis, discussion

18. Culture is:

a) form of religion

b) division of psychology

c) spiritual and material values of the humanity

d) form of science

e) spiritual matter of humanity

19. Function of philosophy is:

a) generalize all theological form of thinking and makes up common notion (representation) of the world

b) summarize all scientific achievements of different sciences and makes up common notion (representation) of the world

c) generalize all physical abilities of the human and makes up common notion (representation) of the humanity

d) discover the essence of absolute in the universe

e) discover the relations between human and animals

20. Experiment is:

a) theory of values

b) scientific instrument of thinking

c) scientific way of living

d) scientific method of cognition.

e) form of behavior

21.Call the oldest major world religion.

a) Islam

b) theosophy

c) anthroposophy

d) dianetica

e) Hinduism

22.What culture has Hinduism its origin at least as far back as 3000 BC in?

a) in ancient Vedic culture

b) in ancient chinese culture

c) in ancient greek culture

d) in ancient japanese culture

e) in ancient Buddhist culture

23. What does moksha mean?

a) power

b) liberation

c) reincarnation

d) karma

e) passion

24. Where do many streams of hinduistic thought flow from?

a) Vedic/Hindu schools, Buddhist schools

b) Vedic/Hindu schools, taoist schools.

c) Tantra Agamic schools, Shacty sects and Mantra Agamic schools

d) Dharma schools, Shiva sects.

e) Vedic/Hindu schools, Bhakti sects and Tantra Agamic schools

25. What does ahimsa mean?

a) not to think

b) non-violence

c) non-activity

d) liberation

e) reincarnation

26. What things are common to all Hindus?

a) belief in Tao, reincarnation, and moksha

b) belief in shamanism, God’s power and moksha

c) belief in Trama, reincarnation, sathya and moksha

d) belief in Dharma, reincarnation, karma, and moksha

e) belief in Vedic culture, narthy and love

27. Call fundamental principles of hinduism.

a) ahimsa (non-violence), the primacy of the Guru, the Divine Word of Aum and the power of mantras, love of Truth

b) ahimsa (non-violence), the primacy of theBuddha, the Divine Word of Brakhma and the power of will.

e) spark of the Divine (Atman/Brahman), belief in shudra, love to the kshatry

d) the primacy of the individual soul, the power of Guru and liberation

f) ahimsa (non-violence), the primacy of theBuddha, belief in Shiva

28. What classical text is Confucianism based on?

a) Taoist

b) Buddhist

c) chinese

d) Moist

e) indian

29. What was the mainstream ideology in China?

a) Confucianism

b) Tao Te Ching

c) Zen-Buddhism

d) Brahmanism

e) jingoism

30 Call Taoism's central books?

a) Vedas books

b) Tao Te Ching,

c) book of Taoism

d) book of divine Tao

e) Tao centrism