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Socrates, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche and Simone de Beauvoir: the big thinkers, their ideas and their best-known quotes. Find out how much of your college philosophy course is still rattling around in your head.
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Which military leader does Machiavelli hold up as a model in "The Prince"?
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Lorenzo the Magnificent
- Charles VIII
- Cesare Borgia
Spinoza was a rabbi at the Amsterdam synagogue.
- True
- False
What does the Chinese word "tao" (or "dao") mean?
- The emperor
- Fire
- The way
- The mountain
Which university offered Spinoza a chair in 1673, which he turned down?
- The Sorbonne
- Heidelberg
- Leiden
- Oxford
Which notion did Imre Lakatos propose to describe how science develops?
- Falsifiability
- Research programmes
- Methodological anarchism
- Paradigms
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