Philosophy Trivia
Socrates to Sartre, Confucius to Kant. These questions cover the great thinkers, the schools of thought, and the thought experiments that keep philosophy students up at night.
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- 262questions
- 39easy
- 70medium
- 153hard
What's covered
- Ancient Greek
- Eastern philosophy
- Ethics
- Existentialism
- Thought experiments
- Latin phrases
Philosophy Trivia: sample questions
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- easy
Complete the classic perception puzzle: 'If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it...' does it make a what?
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Sound
The puzzle turns on two rival definitions of sound: the physical vibrations in the air, versus the perceived sensation that requires a listener.
- easy
What branch of philosophy is devoted to the study of valid reasoning and the structure of arguments?
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Logic
Aristotle systematized the field so thoroughly in antiquity that his collected treatises on the subject became known as the Organon, or 'instrument' of thought.
- medium
What word describes selfless concern for the wellbeing of others — the opposite of selfishness?
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Altruism
The term altruism was coined (or at least popularized) around 1830 by French philosopher Auguste Comte, who built it from the Italian "altrui" (in turn from Latin "alteri"), meaning "other people."
- medium
What is the name of the logical fallacy in which someone refutes a deliberately weakened or distorted version of an opponent's argument, rather than the argument itself?
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Straw man
The name evokes 'knocking down' a stuffed dummy that's easier to defeat than the real opposing argument it's dressed up to resemble.
- hard
What philosophical term describes the view that moral truths are not universal, but hold true only within the context of a particular culture or individual?
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Moral relativism
Herodotus told of the Persian king Darius asking Greeks and a distant tribe to swap funeral customs, each side recoiling in horror, to illustrate that every people believes its own way is right.
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