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Famous Philosophers Quiz

This famous philosophers quiz includes 10 random questions based on our famous philosophers list.

Can you identify with "cogito ergo sum" and practice "Occam's Razor" techniques daily?
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1. Who said “Knowledge is power” and wrote the utopian “New Atlantis”?
2. Descartes wrote “Cogito, ergo sum” in his famous book “Principles of Philosophy”. In which year?
3. Who proposed 5 proofs using reason to prove the existence of God and the immortality of the soul in the 13th century?
4. Which book did Thomas More write before being convicted and beheaded by Henry VIII?
5. Who wrote the Divine Comedy from 1307?
6. Whose work wrote of a “superman” which was subsequently misused by the Nazis for their purposes?
7. William of Occam is famous for his concept “Occam’s razor”. What word best describes the concept?
8. Which philosopher was a teacher of Alexander the Great?
9. Which famous philosopher is said to have lived in a barrel?
10. Together with Adorno, Habermas and Horkheimer, Ernst Bloch was one of the main representatives of the which school?

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One response to “Famous Philosophers Quiz”

  1. William Richardson says:
    January 26, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    Just the quiz

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