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1
Who created the term "utopia"?
Thomas More
Denis Diderot
Jean-Jaques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
29% got this right
2
Who was Socrates in relation to Plato?
Plato's teacher
Plato's opponent
Plato's pupil
Plato's uncle
50% got this right
3
Who said, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Immanuel Kant
Karl Marx
Socrates
21% got this right
Ludwig Wittgenstein is considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.
4
Which term is defined as "the view that all knowledge comes from experience"?
Empiricism
Historicism
Idealism
Rationalism
34% got this right
Empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.
5
What is the study of the structures of consciousness called?
Phenomenology
Aesthetics
Ethics
Metaphysics
27% got this right
Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
6
When was the "Age of Enlightenment"?
18th century
15th century
16th century
20th century
35% got this right
7
What is the theory of knowledge called?
Epistomology
Existentialism
Logic
Metaphysics
32% got this right
8
What is ontology?
The philosophical study of being
The philosophical study of beauty
The philosophical study of knowledge
The philosophical study of nature
43% got this right
9
Who is the author of the Socratic dialogues?
Plato
Aristotle
Epicurus
Socrates
30% got this right
10
Who is credited for the quote "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think therefore I am)?
René Descartes
Immanuel Kant
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
52% got this right
11
Who stated that we live "in the best of all possible worlds"?
Gottfried Leibnitz
Blaise Pascal
John Locke
Thomas More
31% got this right
12
How did the French philosopher Albert Camus die?
Car accident
Cancer
Plane crash
Suicide
