Which Athenian said “I know that I know nothing” and taught by questioning?
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Socrates
He left no writings: we know him through Plato.
💡 Did you know? He was condemned to die by hemlock.
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Which student of Socrates developed the theory of Forms and the cave allegory?
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Plato
He founded the “Academy” in Athens.
💡 Did you know? His work is written as dialogues.
Which student of Plato founded logic and wrote on nearly every field?
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Aristotle
He tutored Alexander the Great.
💡 Did you know? His thought shaped science for 2,000 years.
Which Frenchman formulated “I think, therefore I am”?
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René Descartes
He sought a doubt-proof starting point for knowledge.
💡 Did you know? He also devised the coordinate system.
Which Königsberg philosopher formulated the “categorical imperative”?
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Immanuel Kant
“Act only on a maxim you could will to be universal law.”
💡 Did you know? He is seen as the culmination of the Enlightenment.
Which German philosopher proclaimed “God is dead” and the “Übermensch”?
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
💡 Did you know? His style is aphoristic and provocative.
Which Briton shaped utilitarianism (the “greatest happiness of the greatest number”)?
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John Stuart Mill
He was an early champion of liberty and women's rights.
💡 Did you know? He judges actions by their usefulness.
Which Geneva thinker wrote about the “social contract” and the “noble savage”?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
💡 Did you know? He influenced the French Revolution.
Which German idealist developed the dialectic and the “world spirit”?
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Hegel
His dialectic runs thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
💡 Did you know? He influenced Karl Marx among others.
Which thinker laid the foundations of communism with the “Communist Manifesto”?
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Karl Marx
He analysed capitalism in his work “Das Kapital”.
💡 Did you know? “Workers of the world, unite!”
Which Frenchman shaped existentialism (“existence precedes essence”)?
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Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is condemned to be free.”
💡 Did you know? He declined the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Which Chinese sage taught propriety, family and right conduct?
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Confucius
“Do not do to others what you do not want done to you.”
💡 Did you know? His teaching still shapes East Asia today.
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