Ethical Philosophy Quiz
This 12-question quiz is supposed to tell you which philosopher or school of philosophers you are most compatible with in terms of your concept of morality.
Results:
I must not have an extremely high compatibility with any of these people/schools, because I don't completely agree with Kant, although I would guess Kant and Ayn Rand would be high up for most libertarians. I wonder if all of these people have truly elaborated enough on ethics to give a complete view of what they believe. I'm not very familiar with Bentham, Ockham or Noddings, and I don't know what Hume or Hobbes believed with regard to morality.
Feel free to post your own results. I'm curious to see if the results are similar amongst people here.
I was 100% on with Sartre, which is kinda funny.
About what I'd expect:
1. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (100 %)
2. Ayn Rand (99 %)
3. David Hume (96 %)
4. Thomas Hobbes (94 %)
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (91 %)
6. Stoics (74 %)
7. Cynics (62 %)
8. Baruch (later known as Benedictus)Spinoza (62 %)
9. Plato (50 %)
10. Aristotle (47 %)
11. Epicureans (44 %)
12. Jeremy Bentham (38 %)
13. John Stuart Mill (34 %)
14. Immanuel Kant (33 %)
15. St. Augustine (33 %)
16. Thomas Aquinas (30 %)
17. Prescriptivism (25 %)
18. Nel Noddings (11 %)
19. William of Ockham (7 %)
Here are my results: 1. Ayn Rand (100 %) 2. John Stuart Mill (75 %) 3. Thomas Aquinas (61 %) 4. Aristotle (61 %) 5. Immanuel Kant (61 %) 6. David Hume (59 %) 7. Jean-Paul Sartre (59 %) 8. Stoics (59 %) 9. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (55 %) 10. St. Augustine (54 %) 11. Epicureans (54 %) 12. Cynics (51 %) 13. Jeremy Bentham (50 %) 14. Plato (50 %) 15. Thomas Hobbes (43 %) 16. Prescriptivism (39 %) 17. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (37 %) 18. William of Ockham (27 %) 19. Nel Noddings (14 %)
1. Epicureans (100 %) 2. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (90 %) 3. Jean-Paul Sartre (86 %) 4. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (85 %) 5. Immanuel Kant (82 %) 6. John Stuart Mill (78 %) 7. David Hume (78 %) 8. Prescriptivism (75 %) 9. Thomas Hobbes (72 %) 10. Ayn Rand (72 %) 11. Stoics (68 %) 12. Aristotle (58 %) 13. Thomas Aquinas (50 %) 14. Nel Noddings (46 %) 15. Jeremy Bentham (40 %) 16. William of Ockham (37 %) 17. Plato (36 %) 18. Cynics (32 %) 19. St. Augustine (30 %)
I'm somewhat surprised at these results as I'm not a utilitarian.
The atoms tell the atoms so, for I never was or will but atoms forevermore be.
Yours sincerely,
Physiocrat
At least I have Sartre only once on the list. Anyway, surprised (by Hobbes as well).
1.
St. Augustine (100%)
2.
Thomas Aquinas(95%)
3.
Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (93%)
4.
Immanuel Kant (72%)
5.
Stoics (68%)
6.
Ayn Rand (64%)
7.
William of Ockham(63%)
8.
Plato (60%)
9.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (60%)
10.
Aristotle (59%)
11.
Jeremy Bentham(53%)
12.
John Stuart Mill (51%)
13.
Prescriptivism (48%)
14.
Epicureans (45%)
15.
Jean-Paul Sartre(41%)
16.
Cynics (36%)
17.
David Hume (36%)
18.
Nel Noddings (21%)
19.
Thomas Hobbes(16%)
they said we would have an unfair fun advantage
100% Nietzsche
93% Sartre
88% Hobbes
77% Hume
after that everything drops off by 30%
Surprisingly what I would expect, even percentage-wise, given the choices - as these Cosmo quizes are fun but a bit superficial
"As in a kaleidoscope, the constellation of forces operating in the system as a whole is ever changing." - Ludwig Lachmann
"When A Man Dies A World Goes Out of Existence" - GLS Shackle
I can't answer the quiz, too many of the questions create what I believe to be a false dichotomy.
Clayton -
Clayton:I can't answer the quiz, too many of the questions create what I believe to be a false dichotomy.
I concur. I tried taking the quiz a decade ago, and came to much the same conclusion back then.
The keyboard is mightier than the gun.
Non parit potestas ipsius auctoritatem.
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@Clayton and Autolykos
If Vive can take this quiz, so you can you. Man up!
I don't consider it a question of manhood, sorry.
Immanuel Kant (100%)
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Ayn Rand (94%)
John Stuart Mill (88%)
Prescriptivism (81%)
Thomas Aquinas (75%)
Epicureans (64%)
Aristotle (63%)
Jean-Paul Sartre (60%)
Jeremy Bentham (59%)
William of Ockham (56%)
Stoics (47%)
Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (45%)
Cynics (41%)
Plato (41%)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (36%)
Thomas Hobbes (32%)
St. Augustine (30%)
David Hume (27%)
Nel Noddings (26%)
If I had a cake and ate it, it can be concluded that I do not have it anymore. HHH
I have to say I clicked 'Doesn't Matter/Dislike' quite a lot. On every occasion it was because the question was too restrictive.
You agree 88% with Hobbes?
Serpentis-Lucis: 1. Ayn Rand (100%) MORE 2. Jean-Paul Sartre (95%) MORE 3. John Stuart Mill (94%) MORE 4. Aristotle (76%) MORE 5. Thomas Aquinas (74%) MORE 6. Jeremy Bentham (74%) MORE 7. Thomas Hobbes (66%) MORE 8. David Hume (66%) MORE 9. Cynics (60%) MORE 10. Epicureans (60%) MORE 11. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (54%) MORE 12. Immanuel Kant (49%) MORE 13. Plato (48%) MORE 14. Stoics (46%) MORE 15. Nel Noddings (42%) MORE 16. St. Augustine (36%) MORE 17. Prescriptivism (29%) MORE 18. William of Ockham (27%) MORE 19. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (25%)
I think you and I are the most closely aligned.
I didn't understand few questions, but still... Ayn Rand? I know very little about her, still, interesting ;D
(english is not my native language, sorry for grammar.)
@Autolykos
Whatsa matter bro, your stones haven't dropped yet? (Joking)
The Anarch is to the Anarchist what the Monarch is to the Monarchist. -Ernst Jünger
Jargon:@Autolykos Whatsa matter bro, your stones haven't dropped yet? (Joking)
I really don't understand your motivation for making such a joke. Perhaps you'd like to elucidate it.
Autolykos:I really don't understand your motivation for making such a joke. Perhaps you'd like to elucidate it.
I think he's referring to this comment.
lol, for some reason I find myself scratching out 12 of every 100 words Hobbes wrote the way you have this written, moreover I picture the words that are left talk about somethin along the lines of "Organs of man, leading to a Leviathan on man against man"
Anywho, gay jokes aside - Hobbes is a materialistic egoistic and in ways a predecessor of Austriansism / capitalism. Also, gay innuendo aside, he is kind of funny to read.
I like how a bunch of Austrians on the Mises forum are getting Sartre as their closest candidate, when Sartre was basically a Communist.
Probably becase those fashionable frenchmen used their philosophy as nothing more than fashionable words and trends to "shock the bourgoise" and subvert them any chincy way they knew how.
If you think of it heuristics, textual criticism, deconstrction, etc are very much in the realm of the market method and mentality. They were idiot political savants who were using words to insert their own deus ex machina, not serious thinkers.
As St Max says "our atheists are pious people".
Austrians actually take subjectivism, perpectivism, creative-destruction, etc seriously. Austrians (and all relevant intellectual geneologies relating to it) precede, supercede, and excede anything those loopy neo-leftists have ever had to say.
They are mere pretenders and charltans who know how to mimic reality - the Austrians are the real McCoy and genuine article. I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of their premises, conclusions, and methods could genuinely be stopped in it's tracks by the question "that's very interesting, but so what?"
Vive you say things like Teutonic thought and relatives of Austrianism. What (or rather who) precisely do you mean by it?
BTW, started Capital and its Structure today.
Just a bunch of Germans who deal with Idealism, Rationalism, Epistemology, Subjectivism, and method. It's not a formal category or anything - but people like Kant, Husserl, Webber, and Heidegger
Capital is a good read - it really helped me ground what is at the base of economic transactions - which is something that helps keep everything in perspective for me
Anyway I'm done twith this thread because I feel I may be hijacking it
I don't know much about philosophers, this seems like a good reading list for me though. Now how did Hobbes get there... social contract . A couple of friends have recommended Nietzsche guess I'll have to give him a read.