Philosopher Quizzes & Trivia

Cogito ergo sum. Prepare for quizzes that will challenge everything you know about the world. The way in which you perceive everything and your most basic feelings will all be questioned.

Your understanding of the world will be shaken and everything you took for granted until now might be removed. Let us see some of the sample questions before we proceed with our philosopher trivia. What was the name of the Greek thinker to which the introduction of the term philosophy is attributed?

According to a 1993 study, what percentage of people with a Ph. D in philosophy was employed in educational institutions? What was the name of the philosopher whose work Critique of Pure Reason aimed to explain the relationship between reason and human experience? Remember that the only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

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Which Philosopher Suits You Best?

This quiz is a project for my History of Philosophy class. It tells you which philosopher suits you best, so after taking the quiz you can read books on or by the philosopher that suits you instead of reading a general...

Questions: 72 | Attempts: 28377 | Last updated: Jul 6, 2020

Sample Question
What do you think of religion?

It is not born out of need. It is a response to symbol and myth. It gives substance to norm and value.

It is often used as an excuse.

It is primarily a way to keep people small, prevent them from growing.

Everyone has something they believe in unconditionally. This can be called a religion. Examples are the belief in love or science.

I think only our relationship to others, our sense of responsibility can bring us closer to God.

Religion is a way for people to give meaning to their lives. It can never be a reason to hurt others.

A Quiz On Adi Shankaracharya

A quiz on Adi Shankaracharya

Questions: 18 | Attempts: 14078 | Last updated: Aug 22, 2019

Sample Question
Kaladi the birth place of Adi Shankara is located in

Karnataka

Kerala

Tamil Nadu

Andhra Pradesh

Hegel

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 453 | Last updated: Aug 13, 2013

Sample Question
According to Hegel, which of the following is not a property of development?

It is the actualization of a potential from the less rational to the more rational.

Development occurs along a linear progression

Development is neither chaotic, nor random, and has direction

Development implies progression from fallacy to knowledge

Rousseau Quiz

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer and composer of the 18th century. Most of his work has shaped many things in the world today. If you have knowledge about him, test it out in this quiz.

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 579 | Last updated: Oct 31, 2017

Sample Question
Rousseau believed that women were capable of taking care of themselves.

True

False

Nietzsche

Phil 202

Questions: 8 | Attempts: 560 | Last updated: Aug 13, 2013

Sample Question
Which of the following does NOT contribute to why Nietzsche believed that the work heretofore done in philosophy had been unable to solve the problem of existence?

Because it is not reality that philosophical theories display, but the philosophers themselves

He is suspicious of the central conceptions of philosophy; in them he senses dishonesty and lack of conscience.

Because philosophy has the “will to power” to create the world in its own image.

Because, as Kant would say, there are no such things as things-in-themselves; a noumenal world does not exist and therefore the question remains unanswered.

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What duty do I have whenever I a) participate in a practice and b) acknowledge the rules of that practice to be fair?

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Which of the following characteristics is not a characteristic of a culturally responsive teacher?

They have great sympathy for minority students

Plato put a group of people trapped in their own limited view of the world in this To help explain how we are trapped in the comforts of our own understandings and fear what the outside world has...

1. allegory of the cave-suppose that there is a group of human beings who have lived their entire lives trapped in a subterranean chamber lit by a large fire behind them. chained in place, these cave-dwellers can see nothing but shadows (of their ow