Exploring European Intellectual Giants

Who is known as the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and wrote the famous statement, "I think, therefore I am"?

• Immanuel Kant

• René Descartes

• John Locke

• Voltaire

Which Italian scientist and intellectual was tried by the Inquisition for supporting the heliocentric model of the solar system?

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

• Blaise Pascal

Who wrote "Critique of Pure Reason" and is considered a central figure in modern European philosophy?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Immanuel Kant

• David Hume

• Thomas Hobbes

Which French intellectual is famous for his advocacy of freedom of speech and his satirical novel "Candide"?

• Voltaire

• Denis Diderot

• Jean-Paul Sartre

• Simone de Beauvoir

Who is the German philosopher known for his works "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and the concept of the "Übermensch"?

• Karl Marx

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• Arthur Schopenhauer

Which British philosopher is known for his theory of empiricism and the idea of the "tabula rasa" (blank slate)?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• David Hume

• Francis Bacon

Who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" and is regarded as a founder of modern socialism?

• Adam Smith

• Karl Marx

• Friedrich Engels

• Max Weber

Which mathematician and philosopher is known for inventing analytic geometry and the Cartesian coordinate system?

• Blaise Pascal

• Pierre-Simon Laplace

• René Descartes

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Who was the principal editor of the "Encyclopédie," a major work of the Enlightenment?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Denis Diderot

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

Which Scottish philosopher is known for his skepticism and empiricism, especially in "A Treatise of Human Nature"?

• David Hume

• Adam Smith

• John Stuart Mill

• Thomas Reid