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Philosophy Figures
Quizbowl philosophy people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Immanuel Kant | - Categorical Imperative - Transcendental Idealism - Wrote 'Critique of Pure Reason' (Critiques series) |
| Rene Descartes | - "Cogito Ergo Sum" (I think, therefore I am) - Mind-Body Dualism - Named the Cartesian Plane (graph) - Wrote 'Discourse on the Method' and 'Principles in Philosophy' |
| John Locke | - The Father of Liberalism - Tabula Rasa - Heavily Influenced Jefferson - Wrote 'Two Treatises of Government' |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | - Geist (the spirit) - Likes trios (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) - Wrote 'The Phenomenology of Spirit' and ' The Science of Logic' |
| Bertrand Russell | - Russell's Teapot (atheism) - Proved 1+1=2 - Wrote 'Principia Mathematica' (w/ Whitehead) and 'On Denoting' |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | - "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" - Social Contract Theory - Wrote 'Emile', 'Discourse on Inequality', and 'Social Contract' |
| Karl Marx | - "Religion is the opium of the people" - "A spectre is haunting Europe" - Wrote 'Das Kapital' and 'Communist Manifesto' (w/ Engels) |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | - Ubersmench (Superman) - "God is dead" - Wrote 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra', 'The Birth of Tragedy' and 'Gay Science' |
| Thomas Hobbes | - Argued for an absolute monarch - Human life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” - Wrote 'Leviathan' |
| John Rawls | - Veil of Ignorance and Original Position - Wrote 'A Theory of Justice' |
| Soren Kierkegaard | - Corsair Affair - Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac - Wrote 'Either/Or' and 'Fear and Trembling' |
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