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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Who stated that "cogito ergo sum"?	René Descartes	78%
Marxism was inspired by which 2 people?	Karl Marx	66%
Who wrote the treatise "On the Soul"?	Aristotle	65%
First name of person who invented Kantian ethics	Immanuel	62%
Who wrote the book "The Prince"?	Machiavelli	62%
Who wrote the book "Leviathan"?	Thomas Hobbes	57%
Sun Tzu is best known for writing which book?	Art of War	56%
	Friedrich Engels	55%
John Stuart Mill is a proponent of which philosophical theory?	Utilitarianism	50%
Who developed the above theory?	Jeremy Bentham	35%
Who's philosophy is the above?	John Locke	32%
What is Zeno of Elea best known for?	Paradoxes	27%
How many chapters does the above have?	13	26%
Kantian ethics is a formulation of which branch of philosophical ethics?	Deontological	25%
In which theory do people agree to gain security in return for subjecting themselves to an absolute sovereign?	Social Contract	22%
Which philosophical system's main idea is "the cultivation of virtue and the development of moral perfection"?	Confucianism	21%
Which idea states that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception?	Tabula Rasa	19%
Who is believed to have coined the word philosophia?	Pythagoras	10%
Which concept states that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space?	Eternal Return	8%
What is often considered to be one of the main philosophical currents or "schools" of the ancient Warring States period in China?	Legalism	6%
Who is credited as the first skeptic philosopher?	Pyrrho	6%
What is vital to the construction of the moral laws in Kantian ethics?	Categorical Imperatives	4%
In philosophy of mind, which view denies that the mental and the physical are two fundamentally different things?	Neutral Monism	1%