Quiz Philosophical anecdotes

What does 'baiser Lamourette' mean? (virtue)

Designe une amourette fougueuse. La passion

Designe une reconciliation ephemeres et peu sinceres. La tolerance

Designe un geste de mecontentement, La colere

What is Alan's apple? (death and transfiguration)

The apple that Alan and Eve shared

An apple dipped in cyanide with which Alan Turing killed himself

The name given to the glottis by a naturalist

What does the myth of Er represent? ('The Republic' by Plato)

Er is the messenger from the afterlife, the only one to have seen the souls of the dead

Er is the place where souls are judged

Er is a wandering soul who cannot return to Earth

What is the purpose of the Chinese room? (conscience)

It's a critique of Chinese civilization

It's a place for Asian meditation

It's an experience in thinking, imagined by John Searle

What is Zarathustra's other name? (Nietzsche)

Zarastre

Zoroastre

Zaraostre

Philospher a coups de marteau' is the subtitle of 'Crepuscule des idoles'. Whose is it?

Nietzsche

Descartes

Rousseau

What is an aphorism?

A precept, a memorable saying having the value of a maxim

An indemonstrable truth which must be admitted

A sentence in a few words which summarizes a principle under a singular aspect

According to Montesquieu, what is the principle of the regime of monarchy?

Honor

Fear

Virtue

Le siecle des Lumieres a marque le XVIII eme siecle dans toute l'Europe, Translate to English:

Lightingment

Enlightenment

Luminary century

According to Descartes and his 'Discourse on Method', what is the rule of evidence?

Divide the difficulty into as many parts as it contains

Accept as true only what is clearly understood

Make sure that the question has been exhaustively dealt with