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Famous Philosophers Quiz

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

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

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    September 30, 2019 at 10:36 am

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    January 26, 2015 at 5:24 pm

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