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