Famous Texts
This philosopher wrote The Prince, a text about gaining and keeping power.
Who is Machiavelli?
In Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, they mispronounce the name of this philosopher.
Who is Socrates?
This is the study of correct thinking, argumentation and reasoning.
What is logic?
This ancient Greek Philosopher was a mathematician and developed a very famous theorem about triangles.
Who is Pythagoras?
This is the Daoist symbol for opposing forces in balance.
What is yin and yang?
This is Karl Marx's famous text about a type of societal structure.
What is The Communist Manifesto?
Jim Carrey discovers his whole life is a TV set, a modern take on Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
What is The Truman Show?
This is the study of reality as it truly is.
What is metaphysics?
This ancient Greek Philosopher was the student of Plato later tutored Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
Siddhartha Gautama is better known by this name.
Who is the Buddha?
The Republic was written by this author, describing what the perfect society would look like.
Who is Plato?
Bill Murray relives the same day over and over, echoing Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence.
What is Groundhog's Day?
This is the study of knowledge, its nature, and its sources.
Who is Socrates?
This term used by Confucius and Lao Tzu alike refers to "the path" or "the way" to enlightenment.
What is the Dao?
The concept of the Ubermensch (the Super Man) was written in this philosopher's text Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
In this 1999 film, Neo learns his reality is a computer simulation, representing Descartes' Dream Argument.
What is The Matrix?
This is the study of what's right and wrong.
What is ethics?
This eccentric Greek Philosopher famously lived in a barrel and amongst dogs.
Who is Diogenes?
This is a concept in Hinduism which posits the existence of this singular, universal, spiritual force that permeates through all things.
What is Brahman?
Sun Tzu wrote this text about military tactics and the ethics of conflict.
What is The Art of War?
This is a sitcom about the afterlife, featuring an ethics professor named Chidi.
What is The Good Place?
This philosophical discipline examines the mind/body problem and explores the nature of thought.
This ancient Greek Philosopher believed that change is an illusion and that true reality transcends space and time.
Who is Parmenides?
This term means "effortless action" or "the action of inaction" and is considered by Lao Tzu to be a way of pursuing the Dao.
What is Wu Wei?