FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!

Quiz about Philosophy Greek to the Renaissance

Philosophy: Greek to the Renaissance Quiz

This quiz covers a lot of ground, fasten your seat belt!

A multiple-choice quiz by thejazzkickazz. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
thejazzkickazz

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
40,389

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
2604

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Socrates had 3 main students who helped shaped the main movements of philosophy, varying from logic to hedonism. Which of the following were not part of this triad? Hint

Euclides

Aristippus

Democritus

Antisthenes

NEXT>

Question 2 of 10

2. Epicurus was generally construed as a pleasure-seeker, although he pursued virtue and the middle-way as the solution to pain and pleasure; inner tranquility then resulted after reaching balance. What is the term for this state of mind? Hint

aperion

kataphoresis

ahimsa

ataraxia

NEXT>

Question 3 of 10

3. Who was the philosopher regarded as the 'Socrates gone mad'? Hint

Anaxogoras of Clazomenae

Diogenes of Sinope

Leucippus

Aristhenes

NEXT>

Question 4 of 10

4. Seneca asserted that death was the only form of human liberty. One of his contemporary, was known as the 'Orator of Death', because he preached suicide. After a string of suicides in Rome, he was banned from the city limits. Who was he? Hint

Epictetus

Zenogesias

Cato

Hegesias

NEXT>

Question 5 of 10

5. He was the first Sceptic philosopher of Greece, accompanying Alexander the Great into India, where he exchanged his ideas on Scepticism with a group of Gymnosophists there. Who was he? Hint

Sextus Empiricus

Aristotle

Seneca

Pyrrho

NEXT>

Question 6 of 10

6. What Emperor closed all the schools of Philosophy in Athens ca. AD 529? Hint

Constantine

Nero

Justinian

Aurelius

NEXT>

Question 7 of 10

7. Which of the early Greek philosophers described natural selection, in a similar vein to Charles Darwin? Hint

Zeno of Citium

Deomocritus

Empedocles

Parmenides

NEXT>

Question 8 of 10

8. With phrases like these- 'Death is all things we see awake; all we see asleep is sleep' and 'Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game'...he was known as the 'Riddler'. Who was he? Hint

Diogenes Laertes

Heraclitus

Socrates

Pythagoras

NEXT>

Question 9 of 10

9. 150 lines from his famous 'Way of Truth' describe reality as unchanging and eternal...who was he? Hint

Zeno

Parmenides

Protagoras

Thales

NEXT>

Question 10 of 10

10. Who was the inventor of Dialectics? Hint

Diogenes Laertes

Parmenides

Zeno of Elea

Plato

(Optional) Create a Free FunTrivia ID to save the points you are about to earn:

Select a User ID:

Choose a Password:

Your Email:

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Socrates had 3 main students who helped shaped the main movements of philosophy, varying from logic to hedonism. Which of the following were not part of this triad?

Answer: Democritus

Aristippus founded the school of hedonism. Anthisthenes thought happiness was found in expunging desires. Anthisthenes famous student was Diogenes of Sinope, who carried the ideas of eradicating desires, to a extreme. Euclides, was a famed logician, producing the student- Eubulides- credited with the Liar's Paradox.

Answer: ataraxia

3. Who was the philosopher regarded as the 'Socrates gone mad'?

Answer: Diogenes of Sinope

He was the student of Anthisthenes, and believed in the severe denial of pleasure. He was often depicted in a bathtub-style life, and found making love with his girlfriend in public- a form of public-shock therapy.

Answer: Hegesias

5. He was the first Sceptic philosopher of Greece, accompanying Alexander the Great into India, where he exchanged his ideas on Scepticism with a group of Gymnosophists there. Who was he?

Answer: Pyrrho

6. What Emperor closed all the schools of Philosophy in Athens ca. AD 529?

Answer: Justinian

7. Which of the early Greek philosophers described natural selection, in a similar vein to Charles Darwin?

Answer: Empedocles

8. With phrases like these- 'Death is all things we see awake; all we see asleep is sleep' and 'Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game'...he was known as the 'Riddler'. Who was he?

Answer: Heraclitus

Heraclitus liked fire- and the changing flux of its shape....likening it to the Universe. He believed Nature was ambiguous and hid from man, and that man was too dumb to understand the Unity of it all.

9. 150 lines from his famous 'Way of Truth' describe reality as unchanging and eternal...who was he?

Answer: Parmenides

Parmenides argued -we cannot think of void- or what is not...or simply nothing can be created or destroyed- then is reality is eternal?

10. Who was the inventor of Dialectics?

Answer: Zeno of Elea

Source: Author thejazzkickazz

This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor agony before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.