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Which Philosopher Wrote This? Trivia Quiz

I'll name a philosopohical work and you tell me who wrote it! All works are given in the form of their English titles (though some translations of titles might be different, I'll give the most widely accepted version).

A multiple-choice quiz by I-Am-A-Car. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
I-Am-A-Car

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
306,336

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who wrote "Beyond Good And Evil"? Hint

Jean-Paul Sartre

J. L. Mackie

Michel Foucault

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Question 2 of 10

2. Another well known one; who wrote "Critique of Pure Reason"? Hint

Immanuel Kant

S�ren Kierkegaard

Ren� Descartes

David Hume

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who wrote a famous work which is subtitled "In which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated"? Hint

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Alvin Plantinga

Saint Anselm of Canterbury

Ren� Descartes

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which philosopher brought us "Dialogues concerning Natural Religion"? Hint

John Locke

David Hume

George Berkeley

John Stuart Mill

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who wrote "The Order of Things"? Hint

Jacques Derrida

Michel Foucault

Roland Barthes

Jean Baudrillard

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Question 6 of 10

6. Perhaps a harder one now, who gave us "The Concept of a Person and Other Essays"? Hint

Karl Popper

Bertrand Russell

A. J. Ayer

Noam Chomsky

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" was written by Friedrich Nietzsche.

True

False

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who wrote "The Monadology"? Hint

Robert Nozick

Gottfried Leibniz

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Gottlob Frege

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which ancient philosopher brought us a dialogue called "The Republic"? Hint

Plato

Aristotle

Socrates

Plotinus

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Question 10 of 10

10. And finally, who wrote "The View from Nowhere"? Hint

P. F. Strawson

Bernard Williams

Charles Taylor

Thomas Nagel

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who wrote "Beyond Good And Evil"?

Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche

Yes, "Beyond Good And Evil" is one of Nietzsche's best known works, subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" and published in 1886.
The book is made up of many aphorisms and attacks a great deal of past philosophy.
Its title in German is "Jenseits von Gut und B�se".

2. Another well known one; who wrote "Critique of Pure Reason"?

Answer: Immanuel Kant

"Critique of Pure Reason" is a massively influential work by Kant, first published in 1781. It was followed by his his "Critique of Practical Reason" and "Critique of Judgement".
Its title in German is "Kritik der reinen Vernunft".

3. Who wrote a famous work which is subtitled "In which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated"?

Answer: Ren� Descartes

Yes, that is the subtitle for Descartes' famous "Meditations on First Philosophy". This work is famous for producing the cogito ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am") and was published in 1641 (written in Latin).
Its full title in Latin is (deep breath) "Meditationes de prima philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et anim� immortalitas demonstratur".

4. Which philosopher brought us "Dialogues concerning Natural Religion"?

Answer: David Hume

That's right, "Dialogues concerning Natural Religion" is by Edinburgh's empiricist, David Hume. The dialogues were published in 1779, after Hume's death which was in 1776. Hume used the dialogues to counter numerous arguments for the existence of God.

5. Who wrote "The Order of Things"?

Answer: Michel Foucault

Published in 1966 and with the French title of "Les Mots et les choses", this is one of Foucault's better known works.

6. Perhaps a harder one now, who gave us "The Concept of a Person and Other Essays"?

Answer: A. J. Ayer

Ayer's "Concept of a Person and Other Essays" of 1963 was particularly critical of the Private Language argument that Ludwig Wittgenstein introduced in his "Philosophical Investigations".

7. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" was written by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Answer: True

Subtitled "A Book For All and None", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" was published in several parts between 1883 and 1885 and uses a fictional protagonist named Zarathustra.
Its full title in German is "Also sprach Zarathustra (Ein Buch f�r Alle und Keinen)".

8. Who wrote "The Monadology"?

Answer: Gottfried Leibniz

Leibniz's "Monadology" of 1714 is made up of 90 short paragraphs that explain his views on metaphysics. Its French title is "La Monadologie".

9. Which ancient philosopher brought us a dialogue called "The Republic"?

Answer: Plato

"The Republic" is thought to have been written sometime around 380 BC and deals with political theory.
Its Greek title is "Polite�a" which does not have a direct translation into English.

10. And finally, who wrote "The View from Nowhere"?

Answer: Thomas Nagel

"The View from Nowhere" was published in 1986 and discusses the philosophy of the mind.

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