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