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Test your knowledge of major philosophers and their ideas, from Plato to Nietzsche and more.

  • Who wrote 'Beyond Good and Evil'?

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Who believed in the idea of the 'categorical imperative'?

    Immanuel Kant

  • Who believed in the concept of 'critical race theory'?

    Kimberle Crenshaw

  • Which philosopher is known for his 'Chinese room' thought experiment?

    John Searle

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the invisible hand and the self-regulating market?

    Adam Smith

  • Who is known for his belief in natural law and his defense of the right to revolution?

    John Locke

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the dialectic and the historical progression of society?

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of empiricism and his rejection of innate ideas?

    John Locke

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the noble savage and the state of nature?

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Who wrote 'The Social Contract'?

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Who is known for his theory of forms and his allegory of the cave?

    Plato

  • Who believed in the concept of 'deconstruction'?

    Jacques Derrida

  • Who is the philosopher that believed in the importance of individualism and self-reliance?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Who is the author of 'Naming and Necessity'?

    Saul Kripke

  • Who believed in the idea of 'intersubjectivity'?

    Emmanuel Levinas

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of reason and his advocacy for democracy?

    Baron de Montesquieu

  • Who believed in the idea of 'post-structuralism'?

    Jacques Derrida

  • Who is the author of 'Anarchy, State, and Utopia'?

    Robert Nozick

  • Who believed in the concept of 'tabula rasa' or blank slate?

    John Locke

  • Who believed in the idea of 'dialectical materialism'?

    Karl Marx

  • Which philosopher proposed the 'principle of sufficient reason'?

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

  • Which philosopher is known for his theory of 'Forms' or 'Ideas'?

    Plato

  • Who believed that knowledge comes from experience and observation?

    John Locke

  • Which philosopher is known for his 'hierarchy of needs'?

    Abraham Maslow

  • Who believed in the idea of 'intersectionality'?

    Kimberle Crenshaw

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of skepticism and his method of radical doubt?

    René Descartes

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the absurd and the importance of authenticity?

    Albert Camus

  • Who believed in the concept of 'feminist theory'?

    Simone de Beauvoir

  • Who believed in the idea of 'natural law'?

    Thomas Aquinas

  • Who believed in the separation of powers and checks and balances?

    Montesquieu

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of reason and his advocacy for human rights?

    Thomas Paine

  • Which philosopher believed in the separation of powers and checks and balances as a means of preventing tyranny?

    Montesquieu

  • Who is known for his belief in utilitarianism and the greatest happiness principle?

    Jeremy Bentham

  • Who believed in the concept of 'phenomenology'?

    Edmund Husserl

  • Who believed in the concept of 'empiricism'?

    David Hume

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the dialectic and the importance of historical materialism?

    Karl Marx

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the social contract and the consent of the governed?

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of rationalism and his method of deduction?

    René Descartes

  • Who is known as the founder of existentialism?

    Søren Kierkegaard

  • Who believed in the concept of 'existentialism'?

    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the eternal recurrence and the will to power?

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the categorical imperative and the importance of moral duty?

    Immanuel Kant

  • Which philosopher developed the concept of 'tabula rasa'?

    John Locke

  • Who wrote the book 'Being and Time'?

    Martin Heidegger

  • Which philosopher is known for his 'problem of induction'?

    David Hume

  • Who is the author of 'Mind and Cosmos'?

    Thomas Nagel

  • Who is known for his belief in the power of reason and his method of doubt?

    René Descartes

  • Which philosopher is known for his 'master-slave dialectic'?

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of reason and his defense of freedom of speech?

    Voltaire

  • Who is the author of 'Critique of Pure Reason'?

    Immanuel Kant

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of skepticism and his method of doubt?

    David Hume

  • Which philosopher famously said, 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains'?

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Who is the author of 'The World as Will and Representation'?

    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the will to power and the importance of the individual?

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Which philosopher is known for his 'principle of utility'?

    Jeremy Bentham

  • Which philosopher is known for his 'veil of ignorance' thought experiment?

    John Rawls

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the will to power and the eternal recurrence?

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Who wrote the book 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'?

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Which philosopher argued that 'God is dead'?

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Which philosopher introduced the idea of the 'social contract'?

    Thomas Hobbes

  • Who wrote 'Critique of Pure Reason'?

    Immanuel Kant

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of liberty and his advocacy for limited government?

    John Stuart Mill

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the categorical imperative and the importance of universal morality?

    Immanuel Kant

  • Which philosopher believed in the idea of the social contract and the importance of civil liberties?

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Who is known for his contributions to existentialism and his belief in the absurdity of life?

    Albert Camus

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of virtue and his doctrine of the mean?

    Aristotle

  • Which philosopher is associated with the phrase 'I think, therefore I am'?

    René Descartes

  • Which philosopher is known for his 'panopticon' prison design?

    Jeremy Bentham

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of skepticism and his method of radical doubt?

    René Descartes

  • Who believed in the concept of 'dualism' between mind and body?

    Rene Descartes

  • Who is known for his belief in the importance of skepticism and his method of empirical inquiry?

    David Hume

  • Who wrote 'Meditations on First Philosophy'?

    Rene Descartes

  • Who wrote the influential political treatise 'Leviathan'?

    Thomas Hobbes

  • Who is the author of 'The Second Sex'?

    Simone de Beauvoir

  • Who wrote 'The Republic'?

    Plato

  • Who wrote the philosophical work 'Meditations on First Philosophy'?

    René Descartes

  • Who believed in the idea of 'panopticon'?

    Jeremy Bentham

  • Who believed in the idea of 'queer theory'?

    Judith Butler

  • Who is the author of 'The Human Condition'?

    Hannah Arendt

  • What was Immanuel Kant's famous ethical principle called?

    Categorical Imperative

  • Which philosopher believed in the concept of tabula rasa, or blank slate?

    John Locke

  • Who believed in the concept of 'postcolonial theory'?

    Edward Said

  • Who believed in the idea of 'the will to power'?

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Who was a German philosopher who wrote 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'?

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Who believed in the concept of the 'invisible hand' and laissez-faire economics?

    Adam Smith

  • Who believed in the concept of 'utilitarianism'?

    Jeremy Bentham

  • Who believed in the idea of 'ontology'?

    Martin Heidegger

  • Who believed in the concept of 'structuralism'?

    Claude Levi-Strauss

  • Who believed in the concept of 'postmodernism'?

    Jean-Francois Lyotard

  • Who is the author of 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'?

    Thomas Kuhn

  • Who believed in the idea of 'power-knowledge'?

    Michel Foucault

  • Who believed in the concept of 'hermeneutics'?

    Hans-Georg Gadamer

  • Who is the author of 'Fear and Trembling'?

    Søren Kierkegaard

  • Who is the author of 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'?

    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • Which philosopher is known for his allegory of the cave?

    Plato

  • Which philosopher is known for his 'linguistic turn'?

    Ludwig Wittgenstein
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