World GK MCQs

World Philosophers and Thinkers MCQs with Answers

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of forms and the allegory of the cave?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Descartes
Answer: a) Plato

Who is considered the founder of modern political philosophy and is known for his work “Leviathan”?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: b) Thomas Hobbes

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the categorical imperative and his work “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: d) Immanuel Kant

Who is the philosopher known for his work “Meditations on First Philosophy” and the famous quote “I think, therefore I am?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Descartes
Answer: d) Descartes

Who is the philosopher known for his concept of the “invisible hand” and his work “The Wealth of Nations”?
a) Adam Smith
b) Karl Marx
c) Friedrich Nietzsche
d) John Stuart Mill
Answer: a) Adam Smith

Who is the philosopher known for his ideas on civil disobedience and his work “Walden”?
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Henry David Thoreau
c) John Locke
d) Friedrich Nietzsche
Answer: b) Henry David Thoreau

Who is the philosopher known for his concept of the “will to power” and his work “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Michel Foucault
Answer: a) Friedrich Nietzsche

Who is the philosopher known for his social contract theory and his work “The Social Contract”?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of utilitarianism and his work “Utilitarianism”?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) John Stuart Mill
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: c) John Stuart Mill

Who is the philosopher known for his concept of the “overman” and his work “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Michel Foucault
Answer: a) Friedrich Nietzsche

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of knowledge and his work “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) John Locke
Answer: d) John Locke

Who is the philosopher known for his concept of the “dualism of mind and body” and his work “Meditations on First Philosophy”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Descartes
Answer: d) Descartes

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of natural rights and his work “Two Treatises of Government?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: a) John Locke

Who is the philosopher known for his existentialist philosophy and his work “Being and Nothingness”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Michel Foucault
Answer: c) Jean-Paul Sartre

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “veil of ignorance” and his work “A Theory of Justice”?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) John Rawls
Answer: d) John Rawls

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of alienation and his work “The Communist Manifesto”?
a) Adam Smith
b) Karl Marx
c) Friedrich Nietzsche
d) John Stuart Mill
Answer: b) Karl Marx

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “categorical imperative” and his work “Critique of Pure Reason”?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: d) Immanuel Kant

Who is the philosopher known for his concept of the “tabula rasa” and his work “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) John Locke
Answer: d) John Locke

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of virtue ethics and his work “Nicomachean Ethics”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Thomas Aquinas
Answer: b) Aristotle

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “unconscious mind” and his work “The Interpretation of Dreams”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Michel Foucault
Answer: b) Sigmund Freud

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “cogito, ergo sum” and his work “Meditations on First Philosophy”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Descartes
Answer: d) Descartes

Who is the philosopher known for his concept of “hermeneutics” and his work “Truth and Method”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Hans-Georg Gadamer
Answer: d) Hans-Georg Gadamer

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “categorical imperative” and his work “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals”?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: d) Immanuel Kant

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “forms” and his dialogue “The Republic”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Descartes
Answer: a) Plato

Who is the philosopher known for his concept of the “transcendental ego” and his work “Critique of Pure Reason”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: d) Immanuel Kant

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “just war” and his work “Summa Theologica”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Thomas Aquinas
Answer: d) Thomas Aquinas

Who is the philosopher known for his concept of “power/knowledge” and his work “Discipline and Punish”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Michel Foucault
Answer: d) Michel Foucault

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “philosopher king” and his dialogue “The Republic”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Descartes
Answer: a) Plato

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “forms” and his work “Metaphysics”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Descartes
Answer: b) Aristotle

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “social contract” and his work “Two Treatises of Government”?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: a) John Locke

Who is the philosopher known for his concept of “existential angst” and his work “Fear and Trembling”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Søren Kierkegaard
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Martin Heidegger
Answer: b) Søren Kierkegaard

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “empirical ego” and his work “Critique of Pure Reason”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: d) Immanuel Kant

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “divine command theory” and his work “Euthyphro”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Descartes
Answer: c) Socrates

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “categorical imperative” and his work “The Critique of Practical Reason”?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: d) Immanuel Kant

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “forms” and his dialogue “Phaedrus”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Descartes
Answer: a) Plato

Who is the philosopher known for his concept of “authenticity” and his work “Being and Time”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Martin Heidegger
Answer: d) Martin Heidegger

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “four causes” and his work “Metaphysics”?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Descartes
Answer: b) Aristotle

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “id, ego, and superego” and his work “The Interpretation of Dreams”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Michel Foucault
Answer: b) Sigmund Freud

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “noble savage” and his work “Discourse on Inequality”?
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Who is the philosopher known for his theory of the “sublime” and his work “Critique of Judgment”?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Jean-Paul Sartre
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer: d) Immanuel Kant

 

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