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What philosopher recorded the dialogues of Socrates?
Arippenes
Sappho
Sophocles
Plato
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What famous Italian friar shook the world of Christianity by applying Aristotle's style of logic to the teachings of the Bible?
Thomas Aquinas
Augustus Blume
John Bosco
Richard de Fontville
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One of Thomas Aquinas's most revered contributions to philosophy are his "Five Points" meant to prove what?
Language is beyond structure
God is real
Mankind can always grasp the whole truth
Man is innately good
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What philosopher conceptualized an abstract "Realm of the Forms" in which perfect versions of everything on Earth exist?
Plato
Immanuel Kant
Soren Kierkegaard
William Fowler
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The famous quote "I think, therefore, I am," was the mantra of what philosopher?
Aristotle
Soren Kierkegaard
Rene Descartes
Friedrich Engels
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What philosopher wrote the influential book of political philosophy called The Social Contract?
Karl Marx
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
Confucius
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What is the name of Blaise Pascal's famous philosophical concept which declared it would be better to worship a non-existent god than to not worship an existent one?
Pascal's Gambit
Pascal's Razor
Pascal's Balance
Pascal's Sandhill
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What great philosopher also tutored Alexander the Great?
Diogenes
Aristotle
Sappho
Renault
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the founding members of what American-based philosophical movement?
Nihilism
Lamaiism
Mollyism
Transcendentalism
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Which of the following is a tenant of Emerson's Transcendentalism?
The belief that divinity pervaded all physical matter
The belief that mankind needed to embrace industry
The belief that there were no mystic forces in the world
The belief that humans would ascend to godhood by casting down all other gods
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Henry David Thoreau wrote what book about living by a pond to describe Transcendentalist ideals?
Scalden
Balden
Walden
Alden
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What philosopher coined the concept of the Hyperbolic Doubt in which he claimed that anything one couldn't be certain of shouldn't be considered true?
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
Immanuel Kant
Rene Descartes
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Soren Kierkegaard coined what term to describe the ways in which institutions remove individuality from people?
Belittling
Leveling
Coddling
Shearing
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What nation was the great philosopher Confucius from?
China
Japan
India
Thailand
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What is the name of the concept which Confucius staunchly supported that stated a leader inherently had divine favor?
Wu-Wei
The Mangrove Consideration
The Koi's Permission
The Mandate of Heaven
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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is most commonly associated what what school of philosophy?
Christian Rationalism
Confucianism
Nihilism
Transcendentalism
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In one of Nietzsche's most famous works, he described humanity's ignorant self-centered-ness as being reminiscent of what animal?
A mosquito
An elephant
A guppy
A dodo
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What philosopher wrote the 1781 masterwork A Critique of Pure Reason?
Immanuel Kant
Soren Kierkegaard
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
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What is the name of the ground-breaking 1963 Feminist philosophy text by Betty Friedan?
And God Made Man
The Feminine Mystique
The Balance of Power
A Prison with an Icebox
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What philosopher made the bold statement that, in philosophical discussion, one should proceed as if "God is dead"?
Thomas Aquinas
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Laozi, the Chinese philosopher, was known in the est by what Romanized name until recently?
Lousy
Lou Si-Sa
Leo-Si
Lao-Tzu
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Laozi's philosophies helped to establish many philosophical tenants of what religion in which he is now revered as a deity?
Shintoism
Buddhism
Daoism
Hinduism
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What philosopher wrote the 1651 book of political thought called The Leviathan?
Immanuel Kant
Voltaire
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
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Which of the following phrases best describes Hobbes' political philosophy?
Rulers have no right to tax individuals.
Citizens must lose some of their rights as a price of living in a civilization.
Theocracy is the only legitimate from of government.
God supported kings, so one could not disobey their decree.
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What Existentialist philosopher won the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature even though he tried to refuse it?
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Paul Sartre
John Locke
Alexander Pope
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What is the name of the second author of the Communist Manifesto aside from Marx?
Thomas Hobbes
Fredrich Engels
John Locke
Henry David Thoreau
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What man wrote The Prince to discuss the nature of political power?
Voltaire
Friedrich Engels
Niccolo Machiavelli
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Second Sex is a text on Feminist philosophy which what thinker wrote?
Simone de Beauvoir
Bell Hooks
Betty Friedan
Sally Worth
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What philosopher wrote Das Kapita on what he viewed as the exploitative nature of Capitalism?
Thomas Hobbes
Aristotle
Karl Marx
Soren Kierkegaard
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The philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under what pen name?
Hibbert
Voltaire
Airstipenes
Count Webb
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John Locke believed which of the following about newborn humans?
They were born after their souls fell from heaven.
They spoke a unique language with one another.
They were born with no innate knowledge.
They were born with all the knowledge of their parents if they worked to understand it.
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