To Be or Not to Be? Short Quiz on Philosophy

Are you the king of the philosophical hill, are you the master of agora, the Plato in disguise, the Witt of Wittgenstein? Only one way to check it out.

Plato and company waiting just for YOU to test your skills in the noblest of the sciences. Who got the guts? You, dear sir? Perhaps thee, madam? Come on then and fight the history of thought!

1. What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
Male
Female
3. Who is often said to have the greatest influence on Socrates' philosophy and who is in one of the dialogs Socrates participates in referred to as "the father"?
Aristotle
Kant
Parmenides
Epicurus
Plato
Donald Rumsfeld
4. Which of the following names is not a root of a word denoting a character trait?
Epicurus
Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Stoicism
5. Who developed a theory of proper names that describes them as "rigid designators"?
Mill
Russell
Kripke
Saint Paul
6. In his first Critique, Kant sought to find out how are possible:
Synthetic a priori judgments
Synthetic a posteriori judgments
Analytic a priori judgments
Judgments Judy
7. In old greek, Plato means:
Broad-shouldered
Broad-bearded
Broad-beheaded
Broad-minded
Borat
8. Philosophers Rorty, Dewey, Davidson have in common:
nationality and pragmatism
decade of birth and nationality
pragmatism and idealism
decade of birth and idealism
they once shared a woman
9. What is "The Oldest System-Program of German Idealism?"
Early Fichte's work
Kant's introduction to the second version of the first Critique
Philosophical text, written by three German roomates
Hegel's paycheck
Hoelderlin's most important philosophical contribution
10. According to Tarski, sentence "snow is white" is true if ...
... it snowed today.
... snow is white.
... the epistemological situation is clear.
... we are able to cleary define the color White..
11. Which of the following marxists or ex-marxists did not spend a part of his life in prison?
Negri
Zizek
Gramsci
Luxemburg
12. According to Heidegger, metaphysics has forgotten:
being.
human existence
nothing.
Being.
reality.
meaning of life.
13. If all apples are purple and if some purple things are a bit yellow, then all apples are:
Red
Yellow
Green
Purple
Purple and a bit yellow
14. What is "koan"?
Zen-budistic philosophical aphorism
Type of hinduistic mantra
Paragraph from the Daoistic texts
Proverbs, written by aborigines wrote on koala's fur
15. Who or what is Confucious?
God in chinese mythology
Latin name, given to Kongzi by the Jesuits
Major Chinese thinker
Founder of Daoism
16. Jacques Lacan married former wife of which well-known french thinker and author:
Maurice Blanchot
Georges Bataille
Pierre Klossowski
Jacques Derrida
17. Which of the following important philosophical books were NOT meant to be a part of a larger philosophical work?
Phenomenology of Spirit
Being and Time
Capital
Republic
18. Recurrence is to repetition what ...
Wittgenstein is to Russell
Marx is to Hegel
Nietszsche is to Kierkegaard
19. In Aristotle's theory of four causes, pick the odd one out!
causa materialis
causa formalis
causa finalis
causa efficiens
causa substantialis
20. Who of the following french thinkers' name is not Jean-Luc?
Nancy
Ferry
Marion
21. Who was, among philosophers, the strongest chess player?
Kasparov
Wittgenstein
Lasker
Russell
22. Which of the following answers do not referr to itself?
This one.
Me.
Third one.
Third one.
The last answer.

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