WHOLE BRAIN LESSON PLAN

1ST QUARTER

SUBJECT: INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

LEVEL: GRADE 11/12
UNIT TITLE: PHILOSOPHY: THE DISCIPLINE AND ITS METHODS
WEEK: 1-3
LESSON TITLE: PURSUING WISDOM AND FACING CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
NO. OF SESSIONS: 12
I. LEARNING ENDSTATES

1. Learning to THINK: Understands the importance of having a holistic perspective in

coping with 21st century challenges.
2. Learning to DO: Evaluates processes in doing philosophy towards self-understanding.
3. Learning to FEEL: Upholds the importance of philosophy in obtaining holistic
perspective in life.
4. Learning to COMMUNICATE: Expresses the importance of philosophical reflection on
a concrete situation.
5. Learning to INTUIT: Reflects how one can accomplish universal progress and change.
6. Learning to LEAD: Advocates philosophical reflections in developing inner refinement.
7. Learning to Be: Holistic-driven Learner.

MORAL/ETHICAL FORMATION: Expresses the importance of inner reflection in facing

life’s challenges.
SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS: Reflect how one’s actions affect others.
Lesson I
Type of Question : UNDERSTANDING
Question Sample:
1. What is the importance of pursuing wisdom in facing the challenges of the twenty-first
century?
a. To cope up with the educational system of the 21st century
b. To love wisdom above all
c. To deal appropriately with cultural and racial multiplicity and so that one will not
engage in harassment of any form
d. To pattern our thoughts with 21st century skills
Answer : Letter C
WBLS Endstate: Learning to Think

Type of Question : APPLYING

Question Sample
2. According to Socrates, “To be happy, a person has to live a virtuous life”. In addition ,
virtue is not something to be taught or acquired through education. How can you apply
virtue in your life?
a. by networking with others
b. by educating oneself
c. by sympathizing with others
d. by doing good deeds
Answer: Letter D
WBLS Endstate: Learning To Be

Type of Question : ANALYZING

3. What is the best conclusion you can draw from the story of the six blind men and the
elephant?
a. All the six blind men are correct in their perception
b. Holistic perspective is very important in making judgements.
c. We should use partial point of view in judging others
d. All the six bind men are wrong.
Answer: Letter B
WBLS Endstate: Learning to Feel

Type of Question : EVALUATING

4. What is the value of having logical/critical thinking?
a. To find out the truth.
b. To have validity of arguments.
c. To have a holisitic mind.
d. All of the above choices.
Answer: Letter B
WBLS Endstate: Learning To Communicate

Type of Question : CREATING

5. If the following manifestations of philosophy such as sublime, comic, tragic, pathetic and
ugly are being put together, what branch of Philosophy does it refer to?
a. Aesthetics b. Phenomenology c. Logicd.Existentialism
Answer: Letter A
WBLS Endstate: Learning To Do

Remembering Questions:
6. What symbol represents yin yang all about?
a. B. c. d.

Letter B
Learning to Think
7. What principle in philosophy states this statement?
“ Whatever it is and whatever it is not, is not.”

a. Principle of Identity c. Principle of Non-Contradiction

b. Principle of Excluded Middle d. Principle of Sufficient Reason
Letter A
Learning to Think
8. What branch of philosophy accounts unreal things in terms of what one accounts as real.
a. logic b. epistemology c. aesthetics d. metaphysics
letter D
Learning To Think

9. Who is the founder of Phenomenology?

a. Edmund Husserl b. Socrates c. Immanuel Kant d. Aristotle
Letter A
Learning to Think

10. According to _________, ”To be happy, a person has to live a virtuous life.”
a. Plato b. Aristotle c. Socrates d. Archimedes
Letter C
Learning To Think

11. What branch of Philosophy explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human
actions
a. aesthetics b. ethics c. epistemology d. logic
Letter B
Learning To Think

12. Who coined the word logike

a. Zeno b. Plato c. Socrates d. Husserl

Letter A
Learning to Think

13. What is the challenge of the 21st century?

a. deal appropriately with cultural and racial multiplicity
b. love wisdom above all
c. discover new innovations
d. develop logical reasoning

Letter A
Learning To Think

Evaluating
14. Select from given choices the importance of epistemology
a. Deals with nature, sources, limitations and validity of knowledge
b. Treatise on matters pertaining to the human thought
c. Concerned with the truth and the validity of our arguments regarding such objects
d. It is the Science of the beautiful in its various manifestations.
 Letter A
Learning to Communicate

Lesson 2

Understanding
15. What is the importance of phenomenology as a method of philosophizing
a. it is the method for finding and guaranteeing the truth
b. it is the method for judging others
c. it is the method of gathering facts
d. it is the method of reasoning

Letter A
Learning to Communicate

Remembering
16. What is phenomenology?
a. The scientific study of structures of consciousness
b. The study of the world of experience
c. Brackets all questions of truth and reality
d. Eliminates the empirical contents of consciousness.

Letter a
Learning to Do

Applying
17. How do you apply the things learned in phenomenology?
a. by practicing logical thinking
b. by doing good deeds
c. by focusing on the subjective experience of individuals or groups
d. by describing contents of consciousness

Letter c
Learning to Communicate

Applying
18. What can you say about this line from Edmund Husserl? “Consciousness is intentional.”
a. A person is considered unconscious if he does something unintentionally.
b. Every act of consciousness is directed at some object or individual.
c. Consciousness is feeling positive about oneself.
d. Every act one does is intentionally done.

Letter B
Learning to LEAD

Understanding
19. “Some intuitions are eidetic.”
What does the eidetic mean?
a. they reveal the necessary truths, not just the contingencies of the natural world.
b. Eliminates the merely empirical contents of consciousness.
c. Focuses on the essential features, the meanings of consciousness.
d. Brackets all questions of truth and reality.

Letter B
Learning To Be

Remembering
20. One’s search for truth might be based on one’s attitude or outlook.
What is this method of philosophizing?
a. Analytic philosophy b. existentialism c.postmodenism d. logic

Letter b
Learning To Lead

Remembering
21. Postmodernism refers to:
a. Fashionable term to describe contemporary culture
b. The fashion in arts only
c. The fashion in mode of dressing
d. Refers to old fashion

Letter A
Learning To Think

Remembering
22. Which of the following is not a basis for one’s search for truth:
a.The human condition or the relation of individual to the world;
b.The human response to that condition
c. the difference between the being of person and the being of other kinds of things;
d. freewill and choice

Letter D
Learning To Be

Remembering
23. Which of the following methods of philosophizing is hard to define?
a. postmodernism b.existentialism c.phenomenology d.culture
Letter A
Learning to Think

Analyzing
24. If we put our ideas together,
a. we achieve more c. we debate on whose idea will be correct
b. we contradict each other d. we learn from what is wrong

Letter A
Learning To Do

Analyzing
25. Can language objectively describe truth?”
a. Yes, it can describe truth. c. It does not mean the truth
b. No, language cannot objectively describe truth. d. It is not appropriate to describe it

Letter B
Learning to Communicate

Remembering
26. ________refers to a method
a. hypothesis b.analysis c.experiment d. reason

Letter B
Learning To do

Understanding
27. What can you say about logic and critical thinking
a. concerned with the analysis and construction of arguments
b. serves as a path to freedom from half-truths and deceptions
c. distinguishes facts and opinions or personal feelings.
d. takes into consideration cultural systems, values and beliefs

Letter B
Learning to Lead

Remembering
28. It is concerned with the analysis and construction of arguments
a. Logic c. philosohy
b. Critical thinking d. phenomenology

Letter A
Learning to Feel

Lesson 3

Remembering
29. The existence that is present beyond normal or physical level.
a. Holism B.Good deeds C. Transcendence d. virtue

Answer C
Learning To Intuit

Remembering

30.The lowest need of men according to Maslow”s Hierarchy of needs is:

a. Belongingness and love c. physiological
b. self esteem d. safety

Letter C
Learning To Think

Remembering
31. The highest need of men
a. self esteem b. self- transcendence c. love d. safety

Letter b
Learning to Think

Remembering
32. The belief in karma and reincarnation.
a. Judaism b. Christianity c. Hinduism d. Taoism

Letter c
Learning to Think

Understanding
33. What is the importance of Aum to the Hindus.
a. The most sacred sound to which the universe arose from c. makes things valid
b. the belief in karma and reincarnation d. the religion of the Hindus

Letter A
Learning to Feel

Applying
34. What can you do to attain supreme wisdom?
a. through Nirvana c. by reincarnation
b. by understanding the divine truth of life d. by holism

Letter b
Learning to Intuit

Remembering
35. Buddhism is:
a. enlightenment b. karma c. polytheism d. monotheism

Letter a
Learning to Think

Remembering
36. Buddhism in Indian is
a. Bodhi b. Bathala c. Nirvana d. Four Noble Truths

Letter A
Learning to Think

Analyzing
37. Brahman is selfhood. What can you say about this?
a. The human person ought to be holy c. The idea for human person’s absolute quest for truth
b. The human person needs to attain nirvana d. God created the universe first

Letter c
Learning to

Creating
38. If you put the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path together, what would it be.
a. Perfect character of Buddha c. Perfect character of Arhatship
b. The Truth and the Life d. The fulfillment of transcendence

Letter C
Learning to

Analyzing
39. What conclusion can you draw from this. “Life is full of sufferings”.
a. life is full of sufferings because we have many desires
b. our desires are unending
c. To be free from sufferings we must eliminate them
d. Life can be ended in Nirvana

Letter A
Learning To

Applying
40. How can we forgive?
a. letting go of resentment and thoughts of revenge c. by forgetting others mistake
b. forgiving but not forgetting d. by facing the person who hurt you

Letter A
Learning to

Remembering
41. What do we offer when human nature touches us deeply?
a. thanksgiving b. sympathy c. awe d. praise

Letter D

Remembering
42. What can you do to help minimize the problem on climate?
a. plant trees to make the surrndings a better place to stay
b. dump garbage in the rivers
c. burn trees and plastics
d. donate finances to charities

Letter A
Learning to Do

Remembering
43. A living being that contains a real and existing power to direct its own development toward
fulfillment through perfect, unconditional, infinite truth, love, goodness, beauty, and unity.
a. human spirit b. human person c. humanity d. divine power

Letter B
Learning To Communicate

Understanding
44. What is the importance of studying environmental philosophy?
a. It studies the nature and elements of the environment
b. It studies climate change
c. It studies the moral relationship of human beings with the environment and its non-human contents
d. It studies diversity of human beings

Letter C
Learnin g to Intuit

Applying
45. How do you apply the things learned in anthropocentric model?
a. by caring of yourself
b. by caring for the animals
c. by being the overseer and caretaker of all living organisms
d. by symphatizing with others.

Letter C
Learning to Intuit

Evaluating

46. Give the importance of taking care of the environment.

a. we will be able to cope up with the 21st century skills of learning.
b. we will be able to overcome calamities,
c. we will be able to preserve a good environment and that we will benefit from it and will be our
shelter during calamities
d. We will be able to surpass all obstacles.

Letter C
Learning To Lead

Creating
47. If you put models of Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism together, this will refer to:
a. ecocentric model c. environmental awareness
b. anthropocentric model d. human resources

Letter A
Learning To Be

Analyzing
48. What conclusion can you draw from this picture?

a. Humans are superior and central to the universe, thus it is human

centered.
b. Ethical treatment of animals.
c. Humans are not the only significant species on the planet.
d. Humans adopt an exploitive attitude whenever nature is merely
considered as an instrument for one’s profit or gain
Letter A
Learning To Intuit

Remembering
49. Comes from the idea that women and nature have significant connection since woman most often
have a close association with nature in many societies due to the nature of their traditional roles.
a. Ecology b. ethnocentrism c. ecocentrism d. ecofeminism

Letter D
Learning To Lead

Remembering
50. Claims that the environmental crisis is a result of the hierarchical organization of power and the
authoritarian mentality rooted in the structures of our society.
a. Social ecology b. Biodiversity c. Ecocentric model d. anthropocentric model

Letter a
Learning To Do