Do Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle get under your skin? Test your knowledge of the most irritating philosophers from ancient Greece and see how many you really know!
1. Which ancient Greek philosopher is known for his disdain for writing?
Socrates
Pythagoras
Plato
Aristotle
2. Which of the following is one of the proposed methods of Diogenes's death according to some accounts?
Died in battle
Fell from a cliff
Eating raw octopus
Executed on trial
3. Which Greek philosopher left burial instructions that mocked concerns about proper treatment of the dead?
Plato
Heraclitus
Diogenes
Aristotle
4. Which philosopher's theories are often critiqued for offering no verifiable predictions?
Democritus
Plato
Heraclitus
Zeno
5. Which philosopher often relied on misleading analogies in his arguments?
Anaxagoras
Parmenides
Xenophanes
Plato
6. Which philosopher is known for the paradox involving an arrow and its motion?
Zeno
Epicurus
Socrates
Aristotle
7. Which philosopher's lifestyle exhibited total rejection of societal norms, including public indecency?
Epicurus
Empedocles
Diogenes
Pythagoras
8. Which philosopher's school of thought included the idea of an immaterial ideal world?
Aristotle
Parmenides
Heraclitus
Plato
9. Which philosopher was sometimes characterized as an anarchist for his rejection of social norms?
Socrates
Aristotle
Epicurus
Diogenes
10. Which philosopher often used dialogue participants to merely affirm his views in discussions?
Plato
Diogenes
Socrates
Aristotle
11. Which philosopher believed that memory was crippled by reliance on writing?
Zeno
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
12. Which philosopher famously criticized his contemporaries for the folly and vanity of human conduct?
