June 9, 2025

Famous Philosophers Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Great Thinkers from History

Questions

  1. Who is known as the “Father of Western Philosophy” and authored “The Republic”?
  2. Which Greek philosopher was a student of Socrates and wrote “Nicomachean Ethics”?
  3. Who was the German philosopher famous for his works “Critique of Pure Reason” and “Phenomenology of Spirit”?
  4. Which ancient Chinese philosopher emphasized the importance of harmony and wrote “The Analects”?
  5. Who is the French Enlightenment thinker famous for advocating liberty, progress, and reason, and authored “Candide”?
  6. Which philosopher is renowned for his ideas on existentialism and wrote “Being and Nothingness”?
  7. Who was the ancient Greek philosopher known for his method of questioning, called the Socratic Method?
  8. Which Indian philosopher and leader promoted non-violent resistance and social reform, and was also a moral philosopher?
  9. Who is the 20th-century philosopher known for developing the concept of the “Übermensch” and wrote “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”?
  10. Which philosopher and mathematician is credited with formalizing logic and contributed to the development of modern computer science?

Answers:

  1. Plato
  2. Aristotle
  3. Immanuel Kant
  4. Confucius
  5. Voltaire
  6. Jean-Paul Sartre
  7. Socrates
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. Gottlob Frege