Western philosophy trivia

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• Which book by Beauvoir contains the line "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman"?Western philosophy
• Which branch of philosophy asks what knowledge is and how we can come by it?Western philosophy
• Which French thinker coined the word sociology and held that human knowledge passes through theological and metaphysical stages before reaching a positive one?Western philosophy
• Which major work did Heidegger publish in 1927, though he never wrote the later parts he had planned?Western philosophy
• A paradox asks whether a ship is still the same ship once every old plank has been replaced, one by one. Which Greek hero is it named after?Western philosophy
• Which movement, stemming from Frege and Russell, tried to settle philosophical questions through close scrutiny of language and logic?Western philosophy
• Among Bacon's four idols, which is the bias that comes from people misusing words as they deal with one another?Western philosophy
• Which French thinker described the human being as a thinking reed?Western philosophy
• Which philosopher is said to have taken his walk at the same hour every day, so punctually that his neighbours set their clocks by him?Western philosophy
• Which philosopher is widely known for declaring that God is dead?Western philosophy
• The line "What does not kill me makes me stronger" comes from Nietzsche.Western philosophy
• Metaphysics is a branch of natural science that uses experiments to explain how matter moves.Western philosophy
• Montaigne took the question "What do I know?" as his motto.Western philosophy
• Schopenhauer saw the world as a good order harmoniously governed by reason.Western philosophy
• The legend of the island of Atlantis first appears in Plato's dialogues.Western philosophy
• Augustine held that evil is a substance in its own right, standing against the good.Western philosophy
• The saying "Even if the world ends tomorrow, I will plant an apple tree today" appears in Spinoza's writings.Western philosophy
• Pascal's wager argues that, even without certainty about whether God exists, it is better to bet that God does.Western philosophy
• After being sentenced to death, Socrates escaped from Athens with his students' help and saved his life.Western philosophy
• The English word philosophy comes from a Greek word meaning love of wisdom.Western philosophy
• Which philosopher is said to have tutored the young Alexander the Great?Western philosophy
• Which current in modern philosophy located the source of knowledge in reason rather than experience?Western philosophy
• Which French philosopher is known for the line that existence precedes essence?Western philosophy
• Which image of Plato's shows prisoners who see only shadows on a wall until one is led outside?Western philosophy
• Which form of reasoning, set out by Aristotle, draws a single conclusion from two premises?Western philosophy
• What is the name for the view that mind and body are two distinct substances?Western philosophy
• Which movement of learning in the medieval universities set out to hold faith and reason together?Western philosophy
• Which Hellenistic school taught you to separate what is up to you from what is not, and prized a mind that stays unshaken?Western philosophy
• Hegel's dialectic is a method for discarding both of two opposing claims entirely.Western philosophy
• Who is usually counted the first philosopher of the West, the one who took water as the source of the world?Western philosophy
• Which philosopher took "know thyself" as a motto and questioned people in the streets of Athens?Western philosophy
• Plato held that the world we see with our eyes is itself the true reality.Western philosophy
• Aristotle studied under Plato.Western philosophy
• Descartes set out to rebuild philosophy by doubting everything that could be doubted.Western philosophy
• Empiricism held that people are born already furnished with complete knowledge.Western philosophy
• The Socratic method is called midwifery because it helps the other person give birth to the answer themselves.Western philosophy
• The Sophists held that truth does not shift with the person or the situation.Western philosophy
• Hume treated the link between cause and effect as a habit we pick up from repeated experience.Western philosophy
• Occam's razor is the principle that you should not multiply assumptions beyond what an explanation needs.Western philosophy
• Socrates held that knowing begins with knowing that you do not know.Western philosophy