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Philosophy Multiple Choice
How much do you know about philosophy and philosophers?
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Last updated: November 28, 2020
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1. According to Heraclitus, what is something you can't do twice?
Step into the same river
Truly fall in love
Listen to a story the same way
2. Three of these French philosophers were friends. Who did not belong to them?
Albert Camus
Michel de Montaigne
Simone de Beauvoir
Jean-Paul Sartre
3. What, among other things, was Socrates found to be guilty of by the Athenian people's court?
Writing profane literature
Corrupting the youth
Spying for the rival city of Sparta
Advocating democracy
4. Continuing question 3, how did Socrates react to the verdict?
He instigated a rebellion and seized control over the city.
He fled Athens and settled in modern-day Italy.
He held a powerful speech and won over the jurors' hearts.
He executed the death sentence himself by drinking hemlock.
5. Which philosopher was famous for being a recluse with a poodle as his dearest companion?
Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Martin Heidegger
6. Albert Camus compared human existence to the fate of Greek hero Sisyphus. What did Sisyphus do?
He listened to the temptatious song of Circe while safely tied to a mast.
He tried to roll a boulder over a hill in eternity.
He continually failed to reach the food and drink that surrounded him.
He crafted wings to fly with, but fell when he rose too close to the sun.
7. Marcus Aurelius was one of the great stoic philosophers. What was his other profession?
Mathematician
Christian missionary
Poet
Roman emperor
8. Who is "dead", according to Friedrich Nietzsche?
God
the author
Patriarchy
the Western world
9. Laozi is associated with which Chinese religious and philosophical tradition?
Jainism
Taoism
Buddhism
Confucianism
10. What does "cogito, ergo sum" mean?
"Divide and rule."
"I think, therefore I am."
"I know that I know nothing."
"To see is to believe."
11. Which philsopher was the tutor of Alexander the Great?
Seneca
Avicenna
Aristotle
12. Which view is most closely associated with Niccolò Machiavelli?
The journey is the goal.
Everyone is born good; society makes people bad.
The ends justify the means.
13. What is Enlightenment, according to Immanuel Kant?
The way that Jesus works in the heart of man
A useful tool to maintain power
The way out of self-imposed immaturity
14. Where is Diogenes said to have lived?
On top of Mount Olympus
A tree
A barrel
15. Which statement most closely reflects Positivism?
Only that is true which can be scientifically proven.
One should ignore the bad and focus on the good things in life.
People should be judged by their economic output.
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3 Comments
camus
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Level 80
Feb 9, 2019
Wow, I didn't even realize that my username is so predominant in the quiz before hitting the live button.
cpgatbyu
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Level 88
Nov 28, 2020
Sure Socrates drank the hemlock, but: https://youtu.be/RVc8jwYexjE
Alexquiz17
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Level 95
May 14, 2024
Sisyphus pushed a boulder UP a hill FOR eternity. Nice quiz
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