Philosophers

Question 1

Ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Lyceum

Answer 1

Aristotle

Question 2

Chinese philosopher known as “Old Man” or “Old Master” known for belief in wuwei – non-action

Answer 2

Lao-Tzu

Question 3

Dutch philosopher famous for Ethics

Answer 3

Baruch Spinoza

Question 4

He was a German philosopher influenced by Indian philosophy. Who wrote The World as Will and Representation?

Answer 4

Arthur Schopenhauer

Question 5

He probably got excommunicated for writing Tractatus Theologica-Politicus (Theological Political Treatise)

Answer 5

Baruch Spinoza

Question 6

Ancient Greek philosopher who taught Alexander the Great and thought of God as the “unmoved mover”

Answer 6

Aristotle

Question 7

One of this Italian philosopher’s famous works is City of God, a treatise saying that Christianity was not responsible for the decline of the Roman empire.

Answer 7

Thomas Aquinas

Question 8

Ancient Greek philosopher famous for Metaphysics and Poetics

Answer 8

Aristotle

Question 9

His On the Will in Nature featured the concepts of animal magnetism, magic, and his interest in Chinese philosophy.

Answer 9

Arthur Schopenhauer

Question 10

He wrote Summa Theologica

Answer 10

Thomas Aquinas

Question 11

He founded existentialism

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Soren Kierkegaard

Question 12

He posited that existence is our own free choice and wrote Either/Or

Answer 12

Soren Kierkegaard

Question 13

He wrote a defense of Catholicism against Judaism and Islam called Summa Contra Gentiles

Answer 13

Thomas Aquinas

Question 14

He wrote The Sickness Unto Death

Answer 14

Soren Kierkegaard

Question 15

He was the founder of Stoicism

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Zeno of Citium

Question 16

This Chinese philosopher wrote Analects

Answer 16

Confucius

Question 17

This German idealist philosopher focused on how consciousness evolves in Phenomenology of Spirit

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Georg Hegel

Question 18

This Enlightenment philosopher wrote Candide

Answer 18

Voltaire

Question 19

His Four Books included The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, Analects, and The Works of Mencius

Answer 19

Confucius

Question 20

This Chinese philosopher claimed he would teach anyone for dried meat and taught Mencius

Answer 20

Confucius

Question 21

He said that “Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.” His friends published Political Treatise after his death.

Answer 21

Baruch Spinoza

Question 22

His work called Politics argued that government should be in the hands of a few and talked about monarchy, tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, polity, and democracy.

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Aristotle

Question 23

Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard hated him

Answer 23

Georg Hegel

Question 24

Danish philosopher who examines faith through the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac in Fear and Trembling

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Soren KIerkegaard

Question 25

Baruch Spinoza was most closely associated with what philosophy?

Answer 25

Rationalism

Question 26

Soren Kierkegaard was most closely associated with what philosophy?

Answer 26

Existentialism

Question 27

Who posited that Christianity created "slave morality" and wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra and The Gay Science?

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Friedrich Nietzche

Question 28

He was a student of Socrates who founded transcendental idealism and wrote Republic and Allegory of the Cave.

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Plato

Question 29

He was an empiricist who argued that the mind is a blank slate (tabula rasa).

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John Locke

Question 30

He was a Humanist who wrote Utopia.

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Thomas More

Question 31

He called for a return to virtues of freedom, innocence, and nature and wrote The Social Contract.

Answer 31

Jean-Jacques Rousseau