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