The Great Philosophers Trivia

Philosophers are a wise and rational person who formulates principles of philosophy and applied it to see positive results. There are so many great Philosophers that have left marks in our system. Are you familiar with them? Take this quiz to test your knowledge

  1.  1

    He is a Chinese philosopher, one of the first thinkers to adopt a distinct approach to political philosophy

    • Plato
    • Confucius
    • Aristotle
    • Thomas Hobbes
  2.  2

    He believes that one should govern his subjects by his own example and one should treat the people with love and concern.

    • Thomas Hobbes
    • Aristotle
    • Confucius
    • Plato
  3.  3

    He wrote the book, The Republic. He argued that all conventional political systems (democracy, monarchy, oligarchy and timarchy) were inherently corrupt

    • Confucius
    • Thomas Hobbes
    • Aristotle
    • Plato
  4.  4

    He believes that the state ought to be governed by an elite class of educated philosopher-rulers and that future leaders must be trained from birth and selected on the basis of aptitude

    • Aristotle
    • Confucius
    • Thomas Hobbes
    • Plato
  5.  5

    He wrote the book Politics and asserted that man is, by nature, a political animal

    • Thomas Hobbes
    • Aristotle
    • Plato
    • Confucius
  6.  6

    He argued that each "correct" form of government may devolve into a "deviant" form of government, in which its institutions were corrupted. According to him, kingship, with one ruler, devolves into tyranny

    • Plato
    • Aristotle
    • Thomas Hobbes
    • Confucius
  7.  7

    He wrote the book, The Prince, the Renaissance Italian political theorist

    • Aristotle s
    • Thomas Hobbe
    • Niccolò Machiavelli
    • Plato

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