Philosophy Quiz: Passions & Desire

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Face our though questions about passions & desire in Philosophy

Is Buddhism a philosophy of desire?

Yes
No

Who said: "Nothing great has been done in the world without passion"?

Voltaire
Fichte
Hegel

Who said: "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing"?

Rousseau
Pascal
Hegel

Who wrote: "Life swings like a pendulum from right to left, from suffering to boredom"?

Nietzsche
Aristotle
Schopenhauer

For the Stoics, passions and desires

Depend on me
do not depend on me
Depend on the fate

Stoicism is a school of philosophy born in:

Ancient Egypt
Ancient Rome
Ancient Greece

The Stoics seek to be in harmony with nature

True
False

Who said: "He who loses his passion loses less than that lost his passion"?

Kierkegaard
Nietzsche
Pascal

What is the Passion ?

An ephemeral feeling
A sustainable feeling

Passion comes from the Latin patio. What does it mean ?

enjoy
suffer
love

Who Theorized that the passion in terms of crystallization?

Stendhal
Musset
Proust

Give a synonym of the term "libido"

Pulsion
Emotion
Desire

Who compared the desire for a pierced vase, which empties as you fill it?

Plato
Aristotle
Epicurus

What author was interested in jealousy, in his work In Search of Lost Time?

Proust
Mann
Balzac

For what philosopher passions are they "the salt of life"?

Descartes
Kant
Spinoza

Find the right problematic for the topic "Does The Passion make the dignity of man? "

Does the passion express what is most truly human in man?
Does man have passions ?
Does man is able to free himself from the passions?

"Hell is other people" is a quote from Sartre:

True
False

According to Freud, libido and desire are synonymous.:

True
False

Who said: "These are the passions and not the interests that run the world"

Pascal
Alain
Rousseau

Who said: "In the early passions women love the lover, and in others they love love"

De la Boetie
De la Rochefoucault
Montaigne