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Q1. Which philosopher asserts that hell is other people?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Albert Camus
C) Emmanuel Levinas
Q2. What is a universalizable maxim according to Immanuel Kant?
A) A moral rule based on personal interest
B) A rule of action that everyone can follow without contradiction
C) A democratically voted law
Q3. Which Stoic concept denotes the acceptance of destiny?
A) Ataraxia
B) Apathy
C) Amor fati

The depths of philosophical thought

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Q1. Who said: the individual is not an island?
A) Emile Durkheim
B) Anais Nin
Q2. Who is the most modern sociologist (1858-1918)
A) Georg Simmel
B) Karl Marx
Q3. We never see things as they are , we see them as we are is by :
A) Pierre Bourdieu
B) Anais Nin

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Q1. Plato was an eminent philosopher and an outstanding thinker. Whose disciple was he?
A) Hegel
B) Socrates
C) Karl Marx
Q2. The phenomenology of mind is a philosophical work written by Plato .
A) True
B) False
Q3. How long did Plato's apprenticeship last?
A) 5 years
B) 9 years
C) 7 years

Around the philosophers (1): Plato

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10 questions about Plato, for you to answer.

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Q1. Which philosopher wrote The Gorgias in 5th century BC Athens?
A) Socrates
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
Q2. Which of these writings is by Aristotle?
A) The Nicomachean Ethics
B) The Banquet
C) The Republic
Q3. Who is the author of Les Meditations metaphysiques?
A) Leibniz
B) Descartes
C) Rousseau

Who wrote what? Philosophy version!

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Find out which author wrote the proposed philosophical essay, or vice versa.

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Q1. Plato was an eminent philosopher and an outstanding thinker. Whose disciple was he?
A) Hegel
B) Socrates
C) Karl Marx
Q2. The phenomenology of mind is a philosophical work written by Plato .
A) True
B) False
Q3. How long did Plato's apprenticeship last?
A) 5 years
B) 9 years
C) 7 years

Around the philosophers (1): Plato

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10 questions about Plato, for you to answer.

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Q1. Confucius said:
A) I do not seek to know my friends, I seek to understand my enemies
B) I do not seek to know the answers, I seek to understand the questions
Q2. Confucius said:
A) When people lose their freedom, words lose their meaning
B) When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom
Q3. Confucius said:
A) He who loves to learn is close to knowledge
B) He who loves to understand is close to knowledge

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Q1. Complete his adage: The more the wise man gives to others, the more he (... ) :
A) S'eleve
B) Possede
C) S'humanise
Q2. Idem: knowing how to be content with what you have: (... ) :
A) It's being rich
B) It's being ignorant
C) It's being wise
Q3. The greatest conqueror is the one who knows how to conquer (... ) :
A) In speech
B) Without battle
C) With humility

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Q1. John Perry, born in January 1943, was a professor at Stanford University. What is the subject of the…
A) Philosophy of language
B) Procrastination
C) Semantic situation
Q2. Procrastinate comes from the Latin "procrastinare". What does this verb mean?
A) To forget to wash
B) To take a job cleaning
C) To procrastinate
D) To put things off until tomorrow
Q3. What makes a procrastinator special?
A) Procrastination
B) Faineantise
C) Laxity

John Perry and procrastination

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Without realizing it, many people and students fall prey to procrastination. But what is procrastination?

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Q1. Who said: by making our light shine, we offer others the chance to do the same?
A) Mandela
B) Mencius
C) Meng-Tsen
D) Shan-Sa
Q2. Who said: those who move forward too hastily will move backward even faster?
A) Mandela
B) Mencius
C) Meng-Tsen
D) Shan-Sa
Q3. Who said: great is he who has not lost his childish heart?
A) Mandela
B) Mencius
C) Meng-Tsen
D) Shan-Sa

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Q1. How many astrological signs are there?
A) 10
B) 5
C) 8
D) 12
Q2. How long has lastrologie been around?
A) 10 years
B) 100 years
C) 400 years
D) 4000 years
Q3. What is learned lastrology?
A) Study of the disposition of the stars of the Solar System at a given moment
B) Lhoroscope
C) La voyance

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Q1. Who is the author of 'L'etre et le neant'?
A) Jean Paul Sartre
B) Platon
Q2. Who is the author of 'Levitation'?
A) Freud
B) Hobbes
Q3. To whom is attributed the following quotation: 'The only thing I know is that I know nothing'?
A) Socrates
B) Kant

The philosophers

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A short quiz on philosophical works and their authors.

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Q1. A demiurge is... ?
A) A discourse that operates a kind of purge of the mind
B) A god creator and organizer of the universe
Q2. Manicheism is the doctrine according to which:
A) The world is divided into two antagonistic principles: good and evil
B) Good and evil are closely intertwined in the world without one being able to recognize them with certainty
Q3. Monads, according to the philosopher Liebniz (1646-1716) who coined the word, are :
A) Nomads settled after the Deluge
B) An active and indivisible substance of which all beings are composed

Philosophical vocabulary

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A little quiz on philosophical vocabulary. Good luck!

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Q1. According to Sartre, in his work L'existentialisme est un humanisme , the human essence precedes…
A) True
B) False
Q2. In the same work, Sartre asserts that man is condemned to be free.
A) True
B) False
Q3. Again in this work, Sartre shows that man was created with an end in view.
A) True
B) False

Revisions (True/False) - BAC Philosophy (1)

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Authors covered in this quiz: Rousseau, Sartre, Hobbes, George Sand. On your way to a mention!

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Q1. In what field has he never been famous?
A) Politics
B) Science
C) Philosophy
Q2. In which city is it born?
A) Pisa
B) Rome
C) Florence
Q3. In which city did he die?
A) Pisa
B) Rome
C) Florence

Nicolas Machiavelli

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A short quiz on this thinker and philosopher

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Q1. Who developed the Cogito?
A) Alain
B) David Hume
C) Rene Descartes
Q2. What nationality was the empiricist David Hume?
A) French
B) Scottish
C) Irish
Q3. From which philosopher does the Epicurean doctrine derive?
A) Democritus
B) Pericles
C) Plato

Philosophy

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Philosophy questions

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Q1. Who is it ?
A) Jean Paul Sartre
B) Ibsen
Q2. Who is it ?
A) Sophocle
B) Thomas Hobbes
Q3. Who is it ?
A) Rembrandt
B) Bertolt Brecht

Philosophy

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Q1. Who said: 'The barbarian is first and foremost the person who believes in barbarism'?
A) Claude Levi-Strauss
B) Vincent Bharbarh
Q2. 'The human being is at heart a wild and frightful animal' :
A) Platon
B) Arthur Schopenhauer
Q3. 'The heart has its reasons that reason does not know' :
A) Cioran
B) Blaise Pascal

Philosophical phrases

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Quizzes on some of the greatest philosophers of all time. Good luck!

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Q1. What is your favorite pet?
A) Lots of turtlessss
B) Cats
C) Brown dog
D) Iguana
E) Hamster
Q2. What are your favorite activities?
A) Learning and reading!
B) Doing yardwork, knitting, anything productive really
C) Squishing, jumping, and dancing
D) Going shopping with my gal pals
E) Going to UT football games, cheering for my Vols
Q3. What's your favorite type of weather?
A) Cold and dreary
B) Humid and sunny
C) Breezy
D) Cloudy, impending doom in far distance
E) Does that mean I'd have to go outside?

Are you a Bean?

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A series of questions to determine if you are, in fact, a bean or not.

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