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This ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, tutored Alexander the Great and founded the Lyceum in Athens.
Difficulty: Easy- Aristotle
- Socrates
- Pythagoras
- Heraclitus
This concept in Eastern philosophy refers to the cycle of death and rebirth that souls undergo.
Difficulty: Medium- Nirvana
- Dharma
- Karma
- Samsara
This concept in philosophy of mind, introduced by David Chalmers, refers to the difficulty of explaining why physical processes give rise to subjective experience.
Difficulty: Hard- The Hard Problem of Consciousness
- The Explanatory Gap
- The Binding Problem
- The Mind-Body Problem
"I think, therefore I am" is the famous philosophical statement made by this French philosopher and mathematician.
Difficulty: Easy- Blaise Pascal
- Rene Descartes
- Voltaire
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This political philosopher's "A Theory of Justice" uses the concept of an "original position" behind a veil of ignorance.
Difficulty: Medium- Robert Nozick
- Michael Sandel
- John Rawls
- Alasdair MacIntyre
This 13th-century philosopher's concept of haecceity refers to the unique "thisness" that makes each individual distinct.
Difficulty: Hard- Thomas Aquinas
- Duns Scotus
- Roger Bacon
- Albertus Magnus
This branch of philosophy deals with questions about what is morally right and wrong.
Difficulty: Easy- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Aesthetics
This concept in Sartrean existentialism describes the nausea-inducing awareness of pure existence without essence or meaning.
Difficulty: Medium- Dasein
- Contingency
- Angst
- Facticity
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