Going through an ‘existential’ crisis
I was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964 and turned it down.
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
I am the lead character of the Truman Show.
Truman Burbank
The humanity formulation of Kant's categorical imperative says people are never a means, always this:
What is an end?
The Queen’s University’s mascot
Who is Boohoo the Bear?
I described the social contract theory in which people give up sovereignty in exchange for social order via the rule of law.
Who is John Locke?
Sartre said ____ is other people.
What is hell?
In The Good Place, Chidi was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at this school.
What is St. John's University?
Immanuel Kant died in this year.
What is 1804?
The Harry Potter Reading Room can be found in this Queen's University library.
What is Douglas Library?
Descartes divides the world into a metaphysical dualism of these two substances.
What is extended and thinking?
I famously stated that “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
Who is Simone de Beauvoir?
I trained the main character in the Disney film, Hercules.
Who is Philoctetes/Phil?
According to Kant, this is equivalent to the principle of ends and so it should always yield the same conclusions.
What is the principle of law?
Cha Gheill and the Oil Thigh are written in this language.
What is Gaelic?
I said “To be is to be perceived.”
Who is Berkeley?
Heidegger’s term for ‘existence’ or ‘being there’.
What is “dasein”?
In The Matrix, the main character, Neo, works for this software company.
What is Metacortex?
According to Kant, this is the only thing that is good without exception.
What is a good will?
Many of your philosophy professors' offices can be found in this building on the Queen's University campus.
What is John Watson Hall?
I described life in the state of nature as “nasty, brutish, and short.”
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
I wrote a famous novel about a plague sweeping through the French Algerian city of Oran.
Who is Albert Camus?
In Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, I made the philosopher's stone.
Who is Nicholas Flemmel?
“Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law”
What is Kant’s first formulation of the categorical imperative?
Queen's University was founded in this year.
What is 1841?
I said “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
Who is Voltaire?