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20 QUESTIONS ON PHILOSOPHIES & PHILOSOPERS

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  • Q1
    Who is known for the concept of 'cogito, ergo sum'?
    John Locke
    Immanuel Kant
    René Descartes
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    30s
  • Q2
    Who is the founder of utilitarianism?
    Socrates
    Jeremy Bentham
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    30s
  • Q3
    Who is considered the father of Western philosophy?
    Socrates
    Aristotle
    Confucius
    Plato
    30s
  • Q4
    Who is known for the philosophical concept of 'the categorical imperative'?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    John Locke
    Thomas Hobbes
    Immanuel Kant
    30s
  • Q5
    Who is the founder of psychoanalysis?
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    Sigmund Freud
    Carl Jung
    Albert Einstein
    30s
  • Q6
    Who is known for the philosophical concept of 'the social contract'?
    John Locke
    Immanuel Kant
    Thomas Hobbes
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    30s
  • Q7
    Who is known for the philosophical concept of 'tabula rasa'?
    David Hume
    Immanuel Kant
    John Locke
    Thomas Hobbes
    30s
  • Q8
    Which philosopher is known for his theory of existentialism?
    John Locke
    Immanuel Kant
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    David Hume
    30s
  • Q9
    Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the 'invisible hand' and the concept of laissez-faire?
    Adam Smith
    John Locke
    Karl Marx
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    30s
  • Q10
    Which philosopher is known for his concept of the 'will to power' and the idea of the 'superman'?
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    Immanuel Kant
    John Stuart Mill
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    30s
  • Q11
    Which Greek philosopher is known for his theory of Forms or Ideas?
    Plato
    Aristotle
    Socrates
    Descartes
    30s
  • Q12
    Which philosopher is known for his concept of the 'veil of ignorance' and the idea of justice as fairness?
    John Rawls
    Thomas Hobbes
    John Locke
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    30s
  • Q13
    Who coined the concept of 'The Allegory of the Cave'?
    Plato
    Socrates
    Aristotle
    Descartes
    30s
  • Q14
    Which philosopher is famous for his theory of deontology?
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    Immanuel Kant
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    David Hume
    30s
  • Q15
    Which philosopher is associated with the concept of existentialism?
    David Hume
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    Immanuel Kant
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    30s

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