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What philosophy do you follow?

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MoonlessNight

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This thread caused me to look at other (better) tests online, and I found that while Aquinas, Plato and Kant generally were high on the lists (as well they should be), apparantly my mish-mash of beliefs signals all of the triggers for Spinoza, though I don't really agree with him on many issues.
 
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What better tests? I wasn't too impressed with this one.

I don't agree with anybody about everything, but I like Spinoza much better than Plato.
 
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MidnightBlue said:
What better tests? I wasn't too impressed with this one.

I don't agree with anybody about everything, but I like Spinoza much better than Plato.
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Well, this a blantantly ethical quiz (and therefore not really for this section), but the first quiz was secretly about ethics as well, so for comparison:

http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/

There are more options, the questions get to the heart of things, and the algorithm is better (each answer influences you towards or away from multiple philosophers, whereas the one at the beginning of this post has each question only influencing one philosophy type; and its rather obvious which is which.) Note, though, that your top choice on this test always is listed at 100%, even if you're answers aren't a perfect representation of it.

For the record on that test I got Aquinas first, Spinoza second and Kant third.
 
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MoonlessNight said:
For the record on that test I got Aquinas first, Spinoza second and Kant third.
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1. Spinoza
2. Aquinas
3. Kant
4. Aristotle
5. John Stuart Mill
6. Jean-Paul Sartre

I won't argue with that, but I thought the numbers were way too high all the way down the chart. In general, I agree with Russell that theoretical ethics are superfluous.
 
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MoonlessNight said:
Well, this a blantantly ethical quiz (and therefore not really for this section), but the first quiz was secretly about ethics as well, so for comparison:

http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/
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This test is considerably better.

Here are my results:

1. Jeremy Bentham (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (77%)
3. Aristotle (73%)
4. Aquinas (70%)
5. Epicureans (60%)
6. Kant (56%)
7. Ayn Rand (42%)
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (42%)
9. Plato (42%)
10. Prescriptivism (41%)
11. Spinoza (33%)
12. Thomas Hobbes (33%)
13. St. Augustine (31%)
14. Cynics (30%)
15. Nel Noddings (29%)
16. Ockham (25%)
17. Stoics (25%)
18. David Hume (21%)
19. Nietzsche (13%)

No surprises there
 
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MoonlessNight said:
http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/
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No surprise that Aristotle rated so highly, though I'm surprised that Ayn Rand rated so low. I suspect the author didn't really understand Objectivism and worded the options in a misleading way. Hey, at least she was included in the test.

1. Aristotle (100%)
2. Aquinas (77%)
3. Epicureans (77%)
4. Spinoza (74%)
5. John Stuart Mill (70%)
6. Jeremy Bentham (63%)
7. Plato (62%)
8. St. Augustine (62%)
9. Ayn Rand (57%)
10. David Hume (52%)
 
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Eudaimonist said:
No surprise that Aristotle rated so highly, though I'm surprised that Ayn Rand rated so low.
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I was very surprised that although Simone de Beauvoir is listed on the information page -- so presumably included in the test -- she didn't appear anywhere on my results at all.

I also thought they could have included some Eastern philosophers, pacifists and Transcendentalists, and I thought the Greek philosophical schools could have been given more weight, but maybe that last was just my results.
 
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1. Kant (100%) Click here for info
2. St. Augustine (82%) Click here for info
3. Spinoza (75%) Click here for info
4. Aquinas (72%) Click here for info
5. Prescriptivism (71%) Click here for info
6. Jeremy Bentham (69%) Click here for info
7. John Stuart Mill (66%) Click here for info
8. Plato (66%) Click here for info
9. Ayn Rand (61%) Click here for info
10. Nel Noddings (48%) Click here for info
11. Stoics (48%) Click here for info
12. Jean-Paul Sartre (46%) Click here for info
13. Ockham (43%) Click here for info
14. Epicureans (37%) Click here for info
15. Aristotle (36%) Click here for info
16. David Hume (32%) Click here for info
17. Nietzsche (32%) Click here for info
18. Cynics (16%) Click here for info
19. Thomas Hobbes (16%) Click here for info
 
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Kant (100%) 2. Aquinas (98%) http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/description.html#aqui3. Nel Noddings (96%) http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/description.html#nodd4. Spinoza (96%) 5. Jeremy Bentham (91%) http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/description.html#bent6. Jean-Paul Sartre (90%) http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/description.html#sart7. Prescriptivism (90%) 8. John Stuart Mill (81%) 9. Aristotle (72%) http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/description.html#aris10. St. Augustine (72%) http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/description.html#augu11. Epicureans (63%) 12. Nietzsche (63%)
 
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1. John Stuart Mill (100%) 2. Aquinas (94%) 3. Jeremy Bentham (88%) 4. Ayn Rand (84%) 5. Jean-Paul Sartre (78%) 6. Epicureans (76%) 7. Plato (71%) 8. Aristotle (66%) 9. Cynics (63%) 10. St. Augustine (59%) 11. Thomas Hobbes (50%) 12. Kant (46%) 13. David Hume (39%) 14. Ockham (38%) 15. Nietzsche (35%) 16. Spinoza (32%) 17. Nel Noddings (26%) 18. Stoics (25%) 19. Prescriptivism (23%)

hmm - i dont even know who some of these people are! i like philosophy but its not easy to read. so im not sure what this means
 
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You scored as Divine Command.

Your life is directed by Divine Command: Your god and religion give you meaning and direction.

Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.
--King James Version of the Bible

Divine Command 100%

Justice (Fairness) 65%

Utilitarianism 35%

Kantianism 25%

Apathy 25%

Existentialism 0%

Strong Egoism 0%

Hedonism 0%

Nihilism 0%

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon
 
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1. St. Augustine (100%) Click here for info2. Spinoza (82%) Click here for info3. Ockham (78%) Click here for info4. Aquinas (71%) Click here for info5. Kant (53%) Click here for info6. Jean-Paul Sartre (49%) Click here for info7. Plato (43%) Click here for info8. Stoics (36%) Click here for info9. Jeremy Bentham (34%) Click here for info10. Prescriptivism (34%) Click here for info11. Aristotle (33%) Click here for info12. John Stuart Mill (33%) Click here for info13. Nietzsche (30%) Click here for info14. David Hume (26%) Click here for info15. Nel Noddings (24%) Click here for info16. Cynics (18%) Click here for info17. Epicureans (18%) Click here for info18. Ayn Rand (17%) Click here for info19. Thomas Hobbes (13%) Click here for info

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon
 
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Abbadon

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I got:
1. John Stuart Mill (100%) Click here for info2. Kant (91%) Click here for info3. Aquinas (82%) Click here for info4. Ayn Rand (79%) Click here for info5. St. Augustine (72%) Click here for info6. Jeremy Bentham (69%) Click here for info7. Jean-Paul Sartre (67%) Click here for info8. Aristotle (61%) Click here for info9. Stoics (58%) Click here for info10. Spinoza (55%) Click here for info11. Plato (50%) Click here for info12. Epicureans (45%) Click here for info13. Ockham (45%) Click here for info14. Prescriptivism (40%) Click here for info15. Cynics (35%) Click here for info16. David Hume (30%) Click here for info17. Nietzsche (24%) Click here for info18. Nel Noddings (16%) Click here for info19. Thomas Hobbes (3%) Click here for info

I think Kant is a bit odd in that I don't think we should act as if our Morals should be universal morals.
 
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MidnightBlue said:
I don't either, but there's actually more to the categorical imperative than that.
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Most every "dummie's guide to philosofee" I've seen basically had that as the biggest difference between him and other philosophers that held similar views on the other subjects.
 
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Abbadon said:
Most every "dummie's guide to philosofee" I've seen basically had that as the biggest difference between him and other philosophers that held similar views on the other subjects.
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At least in his ethical system. But the categorical imperative includes, for instance, the idea that you should never treat other people as a means to an end, and I can agree with that.
 
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