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Which Philosopher Wrote This?

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Which Philosopher Wrote This game quiz
"I'll name a philosopohical work and you tell me who wrote it! All works are given in the form of their English titles (though some translations of titles might be different, I'll give the most widely accepted version)."

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1. Who wrote "Beyond Good And Evil"?
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    Michel Foucault
    J. L. Mackie


2. Another well known one; who wrote "Critique of Pure Reason"?
    René Descartes
    David Hume
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Immanuel Kant


3. Who wrote a famous work which is subtitled "In which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated"?
    René Descartes
    Saint Anselm of Canterbury
    Saint Thomas Aquinas
    Alvin Plantinga


4. Which philosopher brought us "Dialogues concerning Natural Religion"?
    John Locke
    John Stuart Mill
    George Berkeley
    David Hume


5. Who wrote "The Order of Things"?
    Jacques Derrida
    Michel Foucault
    Roland Barthes
    Jean Baudrillard


6. Perhaps a harder one now, who gave us "The Concept of a Person and Other Essays"?
    Bertrand Russell
    A. J. Ayer
    Noam Chomsky
    Karl Popper


7. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" was written by Friedrich Nietzsche.
    True
    False


8. Who wrote "The Monadology"?
    Gottlob Frege
    Robert Nozick
    Gottfried Leibniz
    Ludwig Wittgenstein


9. Which ancient philosopher brought us a dialogue called "The Republic"?
    Plato
    Aristotle
    Socrates
    Plotinus


10. And finally, who wrote "The View from Nowhere"?
    P. F. Strawson
    Bernard Williams
    Charles Taylor
    Thomas Nagel


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