Philosophy Circle Trivia

In his 1923 The Ego and the Id, Sigmund Freud first discussed the ego, the Id, and ...

In 1792, whose rights did Mary Wollstonecraft champion?

Friedrich Nietzsche began his career as a:

What does Aristotle claim is required for proper friendship?

In her book reporting on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolph Eichman, Hannah Arendt uses the phrase:

The feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir writes inThe Second Sex, "One is not born a woman but rather ..."

Who argued that a corporation could have no moral duties because "it has no pants to kick, no soul to damn”?

How many jurors were there at Socrates' trial?

John Rawls argued for the importance of a "veil of ignorance" in our deliberation. What was to be veiled?

In the 17th Century, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia had a famous correspondence about the soul with this philosopher.

In Martin Luther King's 1963 "Letter From Birmingham Jail" he writes: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice ...

In his 1759 Candide, Voltaire made fun of this philosopher for his claim that this is "the best of all possible worlds."

In 1806 when Hegel was finishing his Phenomenology of Spirit in the German city of Jena what was happening politically?

Who painted the image of workboots that Heidegger discusses in his The Origin of the Work of Art?

What major philosopher died in December 2021?

Judith Butler's influential 1990 book on gender is titled:

As a student, Hegel lived with two other people who went on to be famous. Who were they?

Which Peruvian thinker is known as the father of Peruvian Marxism?

According to Zeno's paradox, what is it that Achilles can never catch?

Critical Theory, as practiced by Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and others, had its beginnings in this German city

Immanuel Kant wrote about a wide variety of topics, including geography, but never traveled far from his home town.

Martin Heidegger did most of his writing in a small, secluded hut. Where was it?

What is the title of Gloria Anzaldúa's book where she first develops her theory of a New Mestiza consciousness?

For Husserl consciousness is always consciousness of something.

Which early modern philosopher was excommunicated?