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J Philosophy
Philosophy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This book begins, "All states and dominions which hold or have held mankind are either republics or monarchies" | The Prince |
| In the 16th century he wrote, "Whoever wishes to found a state…must start with assuming that all men are bad…" | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| This 16th century Florentine wrote The Prince for the Medicis. | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| This "God is Dead" philosopher called Christianity and alcohol the 2 great European narcotics | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| This former friend of Wagner wrote about the Ubermensch or Superman | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Who wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| This English-Roman philosopher wrote the Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius |
| This Russian anarchist philosopher died in 1921 | Peter Kropotkin |
| This "Life of Reason" philosopher stated Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" | George Santayana |
| This pre-Socratic thinker is the founder of Western Metaphysics and believed all is one | Parmenides |
| Ancient Greek philosopher from Samos whose school promoted pleasure & let women & slaves join, too | Epicurus |
| This psychology professor was also an existentialist philosopher | Karl Jaspers |
| This cynical Greek philosopher who lived in a tub carried a lighted lamp in daylight searching for an honest man | Diogenes |
| A major figure in logic & semantics, he's best known for falling in love with a student named Heloise. | Peter Abelard |
| He is famous for his "ontological argument" for the existence of God and his symbol is the ship. | St Anselm of Canterbury |
| Edward Gibbon | |
| Beauvoir | |
| Aquinas | |
| Aristotle | |
| St Augustine | |
| Roger Bacon | |
| Francis Bacon | |
| Bentham | |
| Berkeley | |
| Buber | |
| Comte | |
| Democritus | |
| Descartes | |
| Dewey | |
| Diderot | |
| Engels | |
| Confucius | |
| Hegel | |
| Heidegger | |
| Heraclitus | |
| Hobbes | |
| Hume | |
| Husserl | |
| William James | |
| Kant | |
| Kierkegaard | |
| Leibnitz | |
| John Locke | |
| Lucretius | |
| Occam | |
| Marx | |
| John Stuart Mill | |
| GE Moore | |
| Thomas More | |
| Pascal | |
| Plato | |
| Plotinus | |
| Pythagoras | |
| Rosseau | |
| Bertrand Russell | |
| Schopenhauer | |
| Scotus | |
| Adam Smith | |
| Socrates | |
| Spinoza | |
| Thales | |
| Voltaire | |
| Whitehead | |
| Seneca | |
| Wittgenstein | |
| Zeno Elea | |
| Zeno Stoic | |
| @The study of art, or of beauty in general | aesthetics |
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