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Test Your Knowledge On Philosophers!

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1 Question
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Which philosopher was the founder of mutualist philosophy?


Jean-Paul Sartre

Pierre-Jospeh Proudhon

Voltaire

2 Question
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Which philosopher is considered to be the classic presenter of the Diamond-water paradox?


Adam Smith

Confucius

René Descartes

3 Question
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_________ was an ancient Greek philosopher, known as the "Father of Western Philosophy".


John Locke

David Hume

Aristotle

4 Question
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Which philosopher founded a school named Academy?


Thomas Hobbes

Plato

Baruch Spinoza

5 Question
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To which philosopher, the phrase "The only thing I know is that I know nothing" attributed?


Socrates

Thales of Miletus

Thomas Aquinas

6 Question
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He was a German philosopher, known as the most influential thinker of the Enlightenment era.


Hannah Arendt

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Immanuel Kant

7 Question
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Which German philosopher was known for the concept of "Super-man"?


Lao Tzu

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pythagoras

8 Question
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Which Greek philosopher was the author of an ethical philosophy of simple pleasure, friendship, and retirement?


Epicurus

Marcus Aurelius

William James

9 Question
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This philosopher is famous for his most famous work "The Communist Manifesto".


John Dewey

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Karl Marx

10 Question
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Who saw formal logic and science as the principal tools of the philosopher?


Democritus

Russell

Albert Camus

11 Question
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Which English philosopher was regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism?


Jeremy Bentham

Lucius Smith

Mary Adams

12 Question
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Who is known as the "Father of Modern Linguistics"?


Martin 

William James

Noam Chomsky

13 Question
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__________ was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe.


Michel Foucault

Democritus

Carneades

14 Question
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_________ was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis.


Sigmund Freud

Baruch Spinoza

Thomas Aquinas

15 Question
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Which philosopher was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors?


Ludwig Wittgenstein

Epicurus

Marcus Aurelius

16 Question
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Who has been considered the founder of ontology and has influenced the whole history of Western philosophy?


Thomas Hobbes

Parmenides

Niccolo Machiavelli

17 Question
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________ was a Greek philosopher who is remembered for his cosmology.


Heraclitus

Diogenes

Georg Williams

18 Question
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________ was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.


Soren Wilhelm

Thales of Miletus

Auguste Comte

19 Question
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This philosopher is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favor of empirical falsification.


Thomas

Popper

Freud

20 Question
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This philosopher was also a poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Simone de Beauvoir

Francis Bacon