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