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