Question 1

Which philosopher wrote 'The Social Contract'?

Accepted Answer

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer

John Rawls

Answer

Thomas Hobbes

Answer

John Locke

Question 2

Which philosopher was a pupil of Plato?

Accepted Answer

Aristotle

Answer

Socrates

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Democritus

Answer

Pythagoras

Question 3

Which philosopher coined the term 'categorical imperative'?

Accepted Answer

Immanuel Kant

Answer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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G.W.F. Hegel

Answer

David Hume

Question 4

Which philosopher wrote a book called 'Nausea'?

Accepted Answer

Jean-Paul Sartre

Answer

Albert Camus

Answer

Martin Heidegger

Answer

Jacques Derrida

Question 5

What was the name of John Rawls' famous book in which he outlined his idea of a 'veil of ignorance'?

Accepted Answer

A Theory of Justice

Answer

The Rights of Man

Answer

A New Political Philosophy

Answer

Behind The Veil

Question 6

Which philosopher claimed that nature is "red in tooth and claw"?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Hobbes

Answer

David Hume

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Answer

Plato

Question 7

In which book did Rene Descartes famously describe his three waves of doubt?

Accepted Answer

Meditations on First Philosophy

Answer

Principles of Philosophy

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Discourse on the Method

Answer

The World

Question 8

Which of Nietzsche's books was distributed to German soldiers during World War I

Accepted Answer

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Answer

On the Genealogy of Morals

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The Birth of Tragedy

Answer

Daybreak

Question 9

According to David Hume, what is the ground of our morality?

Accepted Answer

Custom

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Reason

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God

Answer

Conscience

Question 10

Which philosopher asked, "What's it like to be a bat?"

Accepted Answer

Thomas Nagel

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Bertrand Russell

Answer

John Searle

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