Who Said That
Non-Western
Modern and Enlightenment Thinkers
Exstentialism
Vocab
100

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”

Who is Nietzsche

100

According to Hinduism, people are reincarnated based on what?

Karma

100

He is considered the “Father of Modern Philosophy”

Who is Rene Descartes?

100

The belief that life is without objective meaning

What is "nihilism"?

100

"Cogito Ergo Sum"

What is Latin for "I think, therefore I am"?

200

He said “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?

200

You reach enlightenment in Buddhism by doing this

Rejecting Desire

200

Influential French philosopher who wanted to make “noble savages” of men

Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?

200

A French existentialist philosopher who was born and lived most of his life in Algeria.

Who is Albert Camus?

200

The one who rises above and transcends typical morality

Übermensch

300

"From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs"

Who is Karl Marx?

300

This Indigenous North American principle advises leaders to consider how decisions will affect people far into the future

What is the Seven Generations philosophy?

300

A British empiricist who 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?

300

A jail in which you are always being watched... or are you?

The panopticon 

300

The philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality

What is "ontology"?

400

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Socrates

400

This Quechua concept, meaning "good living," emphasizes harmony with nature and community over individual wealth

What is Buen Vivir?

400

The Critique of Pure Reason was an investigation into the limitations of the structure of reason itself.

Who is Immanuel Kant?

400

A philosopher who held that men stereotyped women as the “Other” in order to provide an excuse for not understanding them and their problems and, therefore, not be required to help them

Who is Simone de Beauvoir?

400

Knowledge that is acquired independently of any particular experience

a priori

500

“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”

Slavoj Žižek

500

This ancient Chinese philosopher is against music, saying its utility is useless!

Mozi

500

This philosopher identifies three principles of association: resemblance, contiguity in time and place, and causation.

Who is David Hume

500

Joseph, Inèz, Estelle realize that "hell is other people" in this play written by Jean-Paul Sartre

No Exit

500

Heidegger’s term for “existence” or “being there”

What is “dasein”?

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