- 1. Who is considered the father of Western philosophy?
A) Descartes
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Aristotle
- 2. Which ancient Greek philosopher was known for his work in metaphysics and ethics?
A) Heraclitus
B) Aristotle
C) Zeno
D) Epicurus
- 3. Which philosopher is known for his theory of forms?
A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Socrates
D) Empedocles
- 4. Who famously declared 'I think, therefore I am'?
A) Descartes
B) Hume
C) Kant
D) Locke
- 5. Which philosopher is known for his work on utilitarianism?
A) Rene Descartes
B) John Stuart Mill
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Plato
- 6. Who is known for his concept of the 'categorical imperative'?
A) Immanuel Kant
B) Sartre
C) Nietzsche
D) Hegel
- 7. Which philosopher is associated with existentialism and wrote 'Being and Nothingness'?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Camus
C) Kierkegaard
D) Nietzsche
- 8. Who founded the philosophical movement of pragmatism?
A) William James
B) John Dewey
C) Charles Sanders Peirce
D) Bertrand Russell
- 9. Which philosopher is known for his works 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' and 'Beyond Good and Evil'?
A) Sartre
B) Kant
C) Friedrich Nietzsche
D) Hegel
- 10. Who is known for the theory of 'Tabula Rasa' or the blank slate?
A) Leibniz
B) John Locke
C) Hobbes
D) Descartes
- 11. Who is known for the concept of 'epoche' in phenomenology?
A) Michel Foucault
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Edmund Husserl
D) Martin Heidegger
- 12. Which philosopher is known for his work on the 'veil of ignorance' in ethics?
A) Thomas Hobbes
B) John Rawls
C) John Locke
D) Jeremy Bentham
- 13. Who is known for his work 'Summa Theologica' which combines Christian theology with Aristotelian philosophy?
A) Boethius
B) Thomas Aquinas
C) Anselm of Canterbury
D) Augustine of Hippo
- 14. Which philosopher is known for his theory of the 'social contract'?
A) Bentham
B) Rousseau
C) Locke
D) Thomas Hobbes
- 15. Who is known for his concept of 'Double Truth' in medieval philosophy?
A) Augustine
B) Anselm
C) Averroes
D) Aquinas
- 16. Who is known for the concept of 'ontological argument' for the existence of God?
A) Averroes
B) Augustine of Hippo
C) Aquinas
D) Anselm of Canterbury
- 17. Which ancient Greek philosopher is known for his contributions to geometry and the Pythagorean theorem?
A) Parmenides
B) Thales
C) Pythagoras
D) Anaximander
- 18. Which philosopher is known for his works 'Ethics' and 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'?
A) Bertrand Russell
B) Heidegger
C) Ludwig Wittgenstein
D) Kant
- 19. Which Enlightenment thinker wrote 'The Social Contract'?
A) Locke
B) Montesquieu
C) Hobbes
D) Rousseau
- 20. Which Greek philosopher is known for his paradoxes?
A) Democritus
B) Thales
C) Epicurus
D) Zeno
- 21. Who is considered the founder of existentialism?
A) Heidegger
B) Sartre
C) Kierkegaard
D) Camus
- 22. Who is known for his work 'Phenomenology of Perception'?
A) Sartre
B) Heidegger
C) Husserl
D) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- 23. Who wrote 'The Communist Manifesto' together with Friedrich Engels?
A) Karl Marx
B) Adam Smith
C) John Stuart Mill
D) Thomas Hobbes
- 24. Who is known for his work 'Being and Time' which explores the concept of 'Dasein'?
A) Husserl
B) Martin Heidegger
C) Merleau-Ponty
D) Sartre
- 25. Who is known for his concept of 'pleasure as the highest good' in ethics?
A) Aristotle
B) Epicurus
C) Seneca
D) Stoicism
- 26. Jean-Paul Sartre is associated with which philosophical movement?
A) Phenomenology
B) Existentialism
C) Empiricism
D) Rationalism
- 27. Which philosopher is known for his work 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'?
A) Locke
B) Kant
C) David Hume
D) Descartes
- 28. Who is known for his work 'Meditations on First Philosophy'?
A) Hume
B) Kant
C) René Descartes
D) Locke
- 29. Who proposed the 'Hedonic Calculus' as a measure of pleasure and pain?
A) Kant
B) Mill
C) Bentham
D) Hume
- 30. Which philosopher is known for his work 'The Prince' on political leadership?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Niccolò Machiavelli
D) Hobbes
- 31. Who is known for his work 'The Phenomenology of Spirit' and the concept of 'dialectics'?
A) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
B) Kant
C) Nietzsche
D) Sartre
- 32. What philosophical movement emphasized the importance of individual experience over tradition and authority?
A) Skepticism
B) Idealism
C) Rationalism
D) Empiricism
- 33. Which ancient Chinese philosopher is known for his teachings on ethics and morality?
A) Confucius
B) Mencius
C) Laozi
D) Sun Tzu
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