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