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  • 1. 
    Which philosopher is best known for his statement cogito ergo sum?

  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Plato
  • Socrates
  • René Descartes

  • 2. 
    According to Plato, what is knowledge?

  • A justified true belief
  • There is no such thing as true knowledge
  • Opinion
  • That which can be proven

  • 3. 
    Thomas Aquinas’s cosmological arguments argue for…

  • The existence of God
  • The existence of other intelligent life
  • The existence of knowledge
  • Nihilism

  • 4. 
    Philosophy comes from the Greek philosophia, meaning what?

  • Lover of philosophy
  • Lover of questions
  • Lover of soapboxes
  • Love of wisdom

  • 5. 
    Which branch of philosophy is primarily concerned with the question of being?

  • Existentialism
  • Platonism
  • Humanism
  • Marxism

  • 6. 
    Who is widely known as the first existentialist, despite never having used the word existentialism?

  • Hannah Arendt
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Alan Watts
  • Søren Kierkegaard

  • 7. 
    Transcendental idealism argues that…

  • Our experience is based on our perceptions
  • There is an afterlife
  • Knowledge has foundations
  • God is the ideal human

  • 8. 
    What does tabula rasa mean?

  • Rise tomorrow
  • Red tablet
  • Clean slate
  • New knowledge

  • 9. 
    Who wrote The Last Messiah?

  • Socrates
  • Alan Watts
  • Peter Wessel Zapffe
  • Frederich Nietzsche

  • 10. 
    Descartes’s meditation that led him to conclude that perhaps even mathematical laws are not true is referred to as…

  • The law denial argument
  • The evil demon argument
  • The Cartesian argument
  • The foundationalism argument

  • 11. 
    Existential nihilism insists what?

  • Death is not the end.
  • The human condition has no meaning.
  • Knowledge is limited.
  • Humans are naturally codependent.

  • 12. 
    The allegory of the cave argues what?

  • There is value in ignorance.
  • Our perceptions may not be accurate.
  • Perceptions are sources of absolute knowledge.
  • We are born with infinite knowledge.

  • 13. 
    Metaphysics is the study of…

  • Politics
  • Existence
  • Ethics
  • Knowledge

  • 14. 
    Epistemology is the theory of…

  • Knowledge
  • Cosmology
  • Metaphysics
  • Poetics

  • 15. 
    Plato was a student to which philosopher?

  • Xenophon
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Socrates
  • Aristotle

  • 16. 
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known for what?

  • Rejection of philosophy as a discipline
  • Contributions to existentialism
  • His publication The Social Contract
  • His publication Leviathan

  • 17. 
    What is the philosophical study of value called?

  • Valuation
  • Axiology
  • Ethics
  • Ontology

  • 18. 
    Which branch of philosophy deals with the question of beauty?

  • Dramatics
  • Poetics
  • Aesthetics
  • Decorum
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