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Final Jeopardy
100

The student of Socrates, he wrote Republic

Who is Plato?

100

He wrote The Prince

Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?

100

She was a proponent of feminist existentialism

Who is Simone de Beauvoir?

100

These terms are used by Karl Marx to describe two levels of class

What are proletariat and bourgeoisie?

100

1. This ancient text involves "deceptive shadows on walls"

while 2. this Renaissance text contains 900 ideas to be defended

while 3. this modern text by John Locke discusses the social contract

What are The Allegory of the Cave, 900 Theses, and Two Treatises on Government?

200

It's a term associated with Confucius that describes respect and obedience toward one's elder family members

What is filial piety?

200

It's a term to describe the philosophical system that uses logic to analyze questions such as faith, reason, and the provability of God

What is scholasticism?

200

1. This term, describing the agreement between ruler and ruled, was explored by these 2. three philosophers

What is 1. social contract theory, and who are 2. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

200

The Anishinaabe Seven Grandfather Teachings are composed of Principles of this term

What is life?

300

It's the school of thought that can best be associated with Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)

What is stoicism?

300

1. He wrote Consolation of Philosophy 

while 2. he wrote Oration on the Dignity of Man

Who are Boethius and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola?

300
1. These two terms, describing the logic and emotion within humanity, are analyzed by 2. this philosopher in The Birth of Tragedy

What are 1. the Apollonian and Dionysian, and who is 2. Friedrich Nietzsche?

300

In 1. this text written by 2. him, Socrates defends his approaches to 3. this branch of philosophy

What is 1. Apology of Socrates, who is 2. Plato, and what is 3. epistemology?

400

They're two texts written by Aristotle - one focused primarily on ethics and one focused primarily on aesthetics

What are Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics?

400

1. He is known for thought experiments such as the Floating Man

while 2. he wrote Proslogion

Who are 1. Ibn-Sīnā (Avicenna) and 2. Saint Anselm?

400

Proposed as a means of assessing whether an act is just, it's a term associated with Immanuel Kant

What is categorical imperative?

400

1. He discussed bad faith, a concept to be avoided within 2. this system of philosophies

Who is 1. Jean-Paul Sartre, and what is 2. existentialism?
500

1. This term focuses on reality as composed of a single source

2. while this term focuses on knowledge gained through experience

3. while this term focuses on knowledge gained through logic

What are 1. monism, 2. empiricism, and 3. rationalism?

500

1. This term, focused on the potential and possibility of humans, might suggest that people can "move up" 2. this medieval hierarchy of all of creation

What are 1. humanism and 2. the great chain of being?

500

The famous “Cogito, ergo sum” was written by René Descartes in this text

What is Discourse on the Method?

500

This Renaissance thinker advocated for tolerance and acceptance of synergism

Who is Erasmus?