Republic of the Philippines

QUIRINO STATE UNIVE RSITY

Cabarroguis Campus

MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Science, Technology and Society

Test 1. Choose the correct answer in the box.

“The Question of Technology” virtue Holderlin Poiesis enframing scientism Jason Hickel
Martin Heidegger techne aition 1.8 hectares Aristotle Nicomachean ethics moral virtue
aletheia de-development 1.7 hectares square meter 1.5 hectares eudaimonia intellectual virtue
Einstein “the good” good life happiness global hectares “Why the future does not need us?”

1. This article teaches as that to be able to appreciate the fruits of science and technology, we must
examined not only for their function and instrumentality but also for their greater impact on humanity as a
whole.
2. This term is defined as bringing forth or discloses and reveals the truth.
3. The way of revealing in modern technology. It is as if nature is put in a box or in a frame so that it can be
better understood and controlled according to people’s desires.
4. The ancient Greeks called this concept as “living well and doing well”.
5. This is a wrong-headed belief that modern science supplies the only reliable method of knowledge about
the world and also that scientists should be the ones to dictate public policy and even our moral and religious
beliefs simply on the basis of their scientific expertise.
6. He is an anthropologist at the London School of Economics who challenged people to rethink and reflect
on a different paradigm of “de-development.”
7. He is a German philosopher who tells us that Science and Technology must be taken as part of human
life that merits reflective and meditative thinking.
8. The poet who expressed this quote “But where danger is, grows the saving power also”.
9. This is the standardized unit that measures resource use and waste.
10. How many hectares should each of us consume annually based on the resources available in the planet?
11. It is has been rightly declared as that which all things aim.
12. It is said to be the ultimate end of human action. It is pursued for its own sake.
13. He is the ancient Greek philosopher known for Nicomachean Ethics.
14. It is the constant practice of good no matter how difficult the circumstances may be.
15. This kind of virtue comes about as a result of habit

Test 11. True or False

1. Questioning is the piety of thought according to James Hickel.
2. Calculative thinking is that one orders and put a system to nature so it can be understood better and
controlled.
3. Meditative thinking is that one lets nature reveal itself to him/her than the other.
4. The “essence of technology is nothing technological” according to Heidegger.
5. The poetry that is found in the nature can no longer be easily appreciated when nature is enframed.
6. Human dignity is an ultimate core value of our existence.
7. Science and Religion are the two wings upon which man’s intelligence can soar into the heights with
which the human soul can progress
8. The UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) explicates the fundamental human rights in 25
articles.
9. Article 3 of the UDHR states that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
10. Article 4 of the UDHR states that no one shall be held in slavery or servitude.
11. Article 5 of the UDHR states that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment.
12. Article 6 of the UDHR states that everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before
the law.
13. Article 7 of the UDHR states that all are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination
to equal protection of the law.
14. The first article of the UDHR states the essential principle of being human in a just, free and rational
society.
15. Unemployment is only one of the many ethical considerations in the widespread of the Artificial
Intelligence (AI)

Test III. Read and ponder on the passage below and answer the questions that follows. (10 points)

“ Material civilization is like a lamp-glass. Divine civilization is the lamp itself and the glass without the
light is dark. Material civilization is like the body. No matter how infinitely graceful, elegant and beautiful it
may be, it is dead. Divine civilization is like the spirit, and the body gets its life from the spirit, otherwise it
becomes a corpse. It has been made evident that the world of mankind is in need of the breaths of the holy
spirit. Without the spirit, the world of mankind is lifeless, and without this light the world of mankind is in
utter darkness.” - Shoghi Effendi

1. To which thing you can compare the material civilization? How about the divine civilization?
2. What do you think will happen if science or the material civilization left to itself?
3. What does the world of mankind need?
4. Why material and divine civilization should go hand in hand?
5. What is the message of the passage?

Test IV. Essay (10 points)

Do you believe that Google makes people stupid? Cite atleast 3 examples to support your assertion.

Prepared by:

Leslie A. Gomez
Instructor

Noted by:

STEPHEN R. DUMAGA
Program Chair, College of Criminology

Approved by:

MAGDALENA L. GUINUMTAD
Campus Director for Instruction