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Philosophy Multiple Choice
How much do you know about philosophy and philosophers?
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1. According to Heraclitus, what is something you can't do twice?
Truly fall in love
Listen to a story the same way
Step into the same river
2. Three of these French philosophers were friends. Who did not belong to them?
Michel de Montaigne
Simone de Beauvoir
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
3. What, among other things, was Socrates found to be guilty of by the Athenian people's court?
Advocating democracy
Spying for the rival city of Sparta
Writing profane literature
Corrupting the youth
4. Continuing question 3, how did Socrates react to the verdict?
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.
He instigated a rebellion and seized control over the city.
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 tried to roll a boulder over a hill in eternity.
He continually failed to reach the food and drink that surrounded him.
He listened to the temptatious song of Circe while safely tied to a mast.
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
Roman emperor
Poet
8. Who is "dead", according to Friedrich Nietzsche?
the Western world
the author
Patriarchy
God
9. Laozi is associated with which Chinese religious and philosophical tradition?
Buddhism
Taoism
Jainism
Confucianism
10. What does "cogito, ergo sum" mean?
"I think, therefore I am."
"I know that I know nothing."
"Divide and rule."
"To see is to believe."
11. Which philsopher was the tutor of Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
Seneca
Avicenna
12. Which view is most closely associated with Niccolò Machiavelli?
The ends justify the means.
The journey is the goal.
Everyone is born good; society makes people bad.
13. What is Enlightenment, according to Immanuel Kant?
A useful tool to maintain power
The way out of self-imposed immaturity
The way that Jesus works in the heart of man
14. Where is Diogenes said to have lived?
A tree
On top of Mount Olympus
A barrel
15. Which statement most closely reflects Positivism?
Only that is true which can be scientifically proven.
People should be judged by their economic output.
One should ignore the bad and focus on the good things in life.
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Great quiz, btw.