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PLS1502 MCQ

Part 1

Which of the following statements does not define communitarianism?


- The human person is an individualist and must always be
independent of others.

The statement that best describes a moderate communitarian is the


following:
- A person is both communal being and an autonomous self-
determining, self-assertive being with a capacity for evaluation and
choice.

The main point of Biakolo’s work, categories of cross-culture cognition


and following:
- The 5 categories don’t give reliable insight into African condition.

The fact that there are 4 or more trends in African philosophy is


indicative of the following:
- The diversity and richness of African philosophy

One of the main points in Bewaji’s work, ethics and morality, in Yoruba
culture is:
- The basis of morality in Africa societies in human welfare and not a
yearning for reward from the divine being.

One of the contributors of post modernism to African philosophy is:


- The idea that there is no one school of philosophy that can capture
the truth once and for all.

According to Imbo, the question “what is African philosophy” is a


complex question because
- We have to consider what counts as philosophy in the strictest
sense
- We have to consider who is making the definition and for what
audience
- We must take into consideration one’s ideological commitments.

Why is African philosophy offered at UNISA?


- So that students embark on the philosophical study arising from
the African experience.
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Which is the worst reason to register for “Introduction to African
Philosophy?
- My experience as an African automatically qualifies me as a
competent philosopher.

The origin term Africa within this module is said to have come from:
- The experience of climatic condition by those who “visited”.

Which term does not best define the AFRICANITY OF AFRICAN


philosopher?
- Meridian-African

Why is it important to understand the ‘discourses’ on Africa and African?


- It assumes the university through the ability of western philosophy
in being able to explain the lived experience.

Why do philosophers differ in the way in which they develop their


philosophies?
- They differ in their fields or interest and academic experience.

Which statement is used to describe Anglophone American philosophy


according to your study guide?
- Early philosophers of this trend were critical of the Eurocentric
thought.

Which statement is used to describe Francophone African philosophy in


the study guide?
- One of its discourses involved the questioning of identity.

Which trend does Kwasi Wiredu identify in his classification?


- Traditional African philosophy

What is Cosmology the study of?


- The universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity’s place in.

The term African philosophy in African term refers to


- The particularity of African philosophy.

Which of the following statements does not define communitarianism?


- The human person is an individualist and must always be
independent of others.
In this module we argue that the controversy of the term “Africa” stems
from the fact that
- The term is not home-grown, but is an imposition from outside.

Who is the author of “the struggle for reason in Africa?”


- Ramose

The struggle for reason in Africa, the author argues others that
- Aristotle’s definition of the human person, seems to exclude
Africans, Australians and the Amerindians.

The origin of the term “Africa” within this module is said to have come
from
- Greek and roman experiences of Northern Africa and its climatic
conditions.

Which term does not best describe the Africanity of African philosophy,
following Osuagwa’s argument?
- Meridian-African

Trends in African philosophy means


- Different classifications and methods of doing African philosophy.

The two classifications of African philosophy according to Wiredu are


- Tradition and contemporary African philosophy

Anglophone African philosophy is promoted by


- Philosophers from previously English colonies

What question is used to describe Francophone African philosophy?


- One of the discourses involved in questioning of identity

Kombe and Smet make the following classification of African philosophy


- Four-folded classification

This module is offered at UNISA


- Semester

In the newspaper article in the Daily Monitor (2009), Mazrui


distinguishes between which 2-type of Africans?
- African of the blood and African of the soil.
Kwast Wiredu argues that African philosophy must be distinguished from
traditional world views, what are his reasons for this?
- To emphasise that it is being produced by contemporary
philosophers and is still in the making.

Serequeberhans conception of African philosophy emphasises which


traits?
- It must be written; it must reflect on the verities of history but can
also be written by non-Africans.

A key point of Ramose in his work,’ the struggle for reason in Africa is
that
- Africans are excluded from humanity.

Why is it important to think philosophically about discourse in African


philosophy?
- The ideas surrounding the discipline must be reviewed for their
biases and provide their valid critique.

African thinkers critique eurocentrism and how it places western


civilization at the centre of knowledge production, and the rest in the
periphery because
- It assumes European understandings of the world are the most
important.

Which statement best describes the key argument in the paper


“categories of cross-cultural cognition and the African condition” by E
Biakolo (2002)?
- To list various descriptions of non-Caucasian races provided by
the western world and determine their usefulness in understanding
the African.

What is the best descriptor of the instar-personal pole of the philosophy?


- A human person is conceived as a composite substance made up
of body and soul.

What is Gyekye’s critique of Menkiti in the paper “person and community


in African though (2002)?
- He argues against a description of community that is all powerful
and individuals run the risk of failing to achieve personhood.
How does Gyeke in the same paper think about individual human rights
in relation to his “moderate communitarianism”?
- The community’s cultural development and success rests on the
realisation of how it is important to allow for the exercise of
individual right.

Part 2

Which academic department at UNISA offers the module PLS1502?


- Philosophy, practical and systematic theology department.

What is the name of the tut letter that contains information about your
assignment?
- Tut letter 101

In the study guide it is stated that the question, ‘can there be an African
philosophy?’ is an ontological, rather than an empirical question. This
implies that
- The questioner doubts if Africans have a rational capacity to do
philosophy.

How many factors does Osuagwu identify for consideration in the


definition of an African philosopher(s)?
- 4

Ali Mazrui distinguishes between African blood of the soil. He then


defines the former group in terms of
- Racial and genealogical terms

The term ‘African’ in this module is deconstructed as it describes the


- Climatic conditions of the continent rather than the people
themselves

The etymology of the term ‘philosophy’ refers to


- Love of wisdom

In the explication of the term ‘African philosophy’, Osuagwu considers


the adjective ‘African’ as
- The localisation or particularising factor of philosophy
According to Imbo, different philosophies, such as western, Chinese and
Indian arise because of
- Different experiences of the world by different people

Post modernism, as argued by Imbo represents


- A voice calling rather for an inclusive approach that allows the
different experiences of humanity to construct complementary
narratives

For Imbo, one of the challenges of post-modernism to mainstream


philosophy is:
- The presupposition that there is one reality that is accessible to
any impartial observer

According to Paulin Hountondji and Tsenay Serequeberthan, the


affirmation of African philosophy requires the existence of:
- Written texts alone

Biakolo’s categories of cross-cultural cognition is about


- How the western world thought about the ‘other’ in general and the
African in particular?

One of the misconceptions uncovered by Biakolo in his analysis of the 5


cross-cultural analysis is that
- For Africa to develop, the path must involve abandoning an oral,
magical, pre-logical past, and gradually assimilating a written,
logical scientific culture of the West.

According to Biakolo, the cross-cultural categories discussed:


- Merely serve to repeat the outdated myth of African as the ‘white
man’s burden’.

In his essay, the struggle for reason in Africa, Ramose expresses among
others,
- The need for African’s to construct an authentic and truly African
discourse about Africa to break the silence imposed on them.

Ramose, in the same essay, equally criticises his fellow Africans for
- Reducing themselves into being passive as well as uncritical
assimilators, coupled with faithful implementation of knowledge
produced from outside Africa.
In “the struggle for reason in Africa”, Ramose is critical of colonisers for
- Claiming to be the sole procedure of all knowledge the only
holders of the truth.

Implied in Aristotle’s statement that ‘man is a rational animal’, lies,


according to Ramose,
- A subtle racism and sexism

How many study units?


- 5

When writing a philosophical essay, you should


- Argue for or against a particular position

How long should essays be?


- 750 words

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