Philosophy test

Wolfenstein

Wolfenstein

Hardcore objectivist
Nov 25, 2005
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Here is a philosophy test for the fun of it.

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

I want to know that kind of people hang out here.

Here is my result

1. Ayn Rand (100%)
2. Aristotle (99%)
3. John Stuart Mill (93%)
4. Plato (86%)
5. Aquinas (83%)
6. Jeremy Bentham (82%)
7. David Hume (78%)
8. Epicureans (76%)
9. Thomas Hobbes (76%)
10. St. Augustine (71%)
11. Nietzsche (68%)
12. Cynics (67%)
13. Kant (63%)
14. Jean-Paul Sartre (62%)
15. Spinoza (57%)
16. Stoics (48%)
17. Prescriptivism (46%)
18. Nel Noddings (41%)
19. Ockham (32%)
 
Here are my results:

1. Aquinas (100%)
2. Stoics (96%)
3. Aristotle (84%)
4. Spinoza (78%)
5. Cynics (78%)
6. Epicureans (78%)
7. Nietzsche (77%)
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (76%)
9. Ayn Rand (74%)
10. Kant (72%)
11. John Stuart Mill (67%)
12. David Hume (64%)
13. Thomas Hobbes (62%)
14. Jeremy Bentham (59%)
15. Ockham (50%)
16. Plato (49%)
17. St. Augustine (45%)
18. Prescriptivism (43%)
19. Nel Noddings (40%)
 
1. Ayn Rand (100%) Click here for info
2. Nietzsche (78%) Click here for info
3. Stoics (66%) Click here for info
4. David Hume (64%) Click here for info
5. Aristotle (56%) Click here for info
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (56%) Click here for info
7. Kant (55%) Click here for info
8. Thomas Hobbes (52%) Click here for info
9. Spinoza (49%) Click here for info
10. Aquinas (47%) Click here for info
11. John Stuart Mill (44%) Click here for info
12. Cynics (42%) Click here for info
13. Plato (42%) Click here for info
14. Epicureans (41%) Click here for info
15. St. Augustine (33%) Click here for info
16. Prescriptivism (31%) Click here for info
17. Jeremy Bentham (29%) Click here for info
18. Ockham (24%) Click here for info
19. Nel Noddings (10%) Click here for info
 
1. St. Augustine (100%) Click here for info
2. Kant (86%) Click here for info
3. Spinoza (77%) Click here for info
4. Aquinas (76%) Click here for info
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (76%) Click here for info
6. Ayn Rand (68%) Click here for info
7. Stoics (64%) Click here for info
8. Jeremy Bentham (62%) Click here for info
9. Prescriptivism (62%) Click here for info
10. John Stuart Mill (59%) Click here for info
11. Ockham (53%) Click here for info
12. Plato (52%) Click here for info
13. Nel Noddings (50%) Click here for info
14. Nietzsche (49%) Click here for info
15. Aristotle (46%) Click here for info
16. Cynics (43%) Click here for info
17. David Hume (37%) Click here for info
18. Epicureans (19%) Click here for info
19. Thomas Hobbes (13%) Click here for info

i'm not really into philosophy yet (i'm doing theology first) but maybe this is a good starting point for reading, thx! :)
 
I should reconsider my nickname...:tickled:

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1. Jeremy Bentham (100%) Click here for info2. Aquinas (94%) Click here for info3. John Stuart Mill (94%) Click here for info4. Aristotle (92%) Click here for info5. Jean-Paul Sartre (91%) Click here for info6. Ayn Rand (87%) Click here for info7. Kant (85%) Click here for info8. Spinoza (80%) Click here for info9. Plato (70%) Click here for info10. St. Augustine (64%) Click here for info11. Stoics (63%) Click here for info12. David Hume (57%) Click here for info13. Prescriptivism (57%) Click here for info14. Cynics (54%) Click here for info15. Nietzsche (52%) Click here for info16. Ockham (47%) Click here for info17. Nel Noddings (43%) Click here for info18. Epicureans (38%) Click here for info19. Thomas Hobbes (36%) Click here for info[/FONT]
 
And me... I didn't know you could agree with Ayn Rand and Nietzsche at the same time

1. Nietzsche (100%)
2. Ayn Rand (80%)
3. Spinoza (79%)
4. David Hume (74%)
5. Stoics (74%)
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (67%)
7. Thomas Hobbes (58%)
8. Aquinas (52%)
9. Kant (51%)
10. Plato (49%)
11. St. Augustine (49%)
12. Cynics (46%)
13. Epicureans (46%)
14. Aristotle (44%)
15. Prescriptivism (40%)
16. Ockham (37%) Click
17. John Stuart Mill (32%)
18. Jeremy Bentham (24%)
19. Nel Noddings (20%)
 
1. Nietzsche (100%) Click here for info
2. Spinoza (91%) Click here for info
3. Thomas Hobbes (88%) Click here for info
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (87%) Click here for info
5. Epicureans (87%) Click here for info
6. David Hume (83%) Click here for info
7. Aquinas (82%) Click here for info
8. Ayn Rand (70%) Click here for info
9. Stoics (69%) Click here for info
10. John Stuart Mill (68%) Click here for info
11. Plato (68%) Click here for info
12. Cynics (62%) Click here for info
13. Aristotle (62%) Click here for info
14. St. Augustine (51%) Click here for info
15. Kant (50%) Click here for info
16. Nel Noddings (49%) Click here for info
17. Prescriptivism (46%) Click here for info
18. Jeremy Bentham (41%) Click here for info
19. Ockham (40%) Click here for info
 
I took this quiz once before about 2 years ago I think. It's interesting, because Ayn Rand is still at the top, but the other one's have changed, Nietzsche used to be my second I think. Either way interesting.

1. Ayn Rand (100%) Click here for info
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (87%) Click here for info
3. David Hume (79%) Click here for info
4. Nietzsche (77%) Click here for info
5. Thomas Hobbes (75%) Click here for info
6. Cynics (67%) Click here for info
7. Kant (55%) Click here for info
8. Stoics (54%) Click here for info
9. Epicureans (50%) Click here for info
10. Prescriptivism (50%) Click here for info
11. John Stuart Mill (47%) Click here for info
12. Spinoza (39%) Click here for info
13. Aristotle (38%) Click here for info
14. Plato (36%) Click here for info
15. Jeremy Bentham (35%) Click here for info
16. St. Augustine (27%) Click here for info
17. Aquinas (22%) Click here for info
18. Ockham (19%) Click here for info
19. Nel Noddings (13%) Click here for info


coolsnow7 said:
And me... I didn't know you could agree with Ayn Rand and Nietzsche at the same time
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well, you'd be surprised. Nietzsche is one of the few philosophers Ayn Rand talked about in a positive manner (him and Aristotle) otherwise she had serious problems with most other philosophers. The similarities with Nietzche, are basically the idea of the "superman" in Nietzche who rises above the ways of others to establish themselves as an individual and a new wave, sort of creating their own new moral code. That was a pretty crude description, but I think looking at that, the similarities seem pretty obvious. Because Ayn Rand is all about the true hero and such.
 
nevermind the diversion...

some interesting philosophical essays can be found here:

http://processpsychology.com/Unconscious.html

I'm particularly fond of this discussion

http://www.processpsychology.com/Dasein.htm

an excerpt
For Heidegger, authenticity is a uniquely temporal structure and a process of unfolding possibility. It is a state of being that is active, congruent, contemplative, dynamic, and teleological--an agency burgeoning with quiescent potentiality (Guignon, 1984, 1993). As such, authenticity is the process of becoming one's possibilities; and by nature it is idiosyncratic and uniquely subjective. Generally we might say that selfhood vacillates between authentic and inauthentic modes, that it tarries with genuine inauthenticity only to find itself genuinely authentic. Selfhood therefore participates in many forms on its acclivity toward the apprehension of its possibilities and ontological priorities that constitute its Being. Perhaps selfhood is beyond this antithetical distinction; it merely is what it is. Perhaps authenticity is beyond the individual; for it ultimately belongs to the ontology that constitutes Being itself.
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It is from this perspective that I esteem being as a Becoming [of self].
 
coolsnow7 said:
Dude - one's Subjectivism, one's Objectivism.
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That doesn't mean their can't be similarities. This "hero" idea Nietzche had that was certainly an influence on Ayn Rand. She does not like his subjectivism, you're right. But she DOES like the idea of a hero, and likes the way Nietzche talks about the idea of a hero. And besides, this test was purely ethics, not metaphysics and other things. Both of them have the idea of a "hero" as an essential part of their ethical philosophies, despite the objectivism or subjectivism.
 
Widderslainte said:
That doesn't mean their can't be similarities. This "hero" idea Nietzche had that was certainly an influence on Ayn Rand. She does not like his subjectivism, you're right. But she DOES like the idea of a hero, and likes the way Nietzche talks about the idea of a hero. And besides, this test was purely ethics, not metaphysics and other things. Both of them have the idea of a "hero" as an essential part of their ethical philosophies, despite the objectivism or subjectivism.
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Yes, I know they had many simimlar ideas, but I'm saying you can't agree with both on a question about, say, what defines morality. And while I didn't get a 100% for both, 80% is pretty close. Besides, I had thought that my answers would have gotten me no agreement with Nietzche.
 
coolsnow7 said:
Yes, I know they had many simimlar ideas, but I'm saying you can't agree with both on a question about, say, what defines morality. And while I didn't get a 100% for both, 80% is pretty close. Besides, I had thought that my answers would have gotten me no agreement with Nietzche.
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That is wierd. But what I think is even wierder is that I agreed with both Sartre and Rand. Sartre was a communist for christ's sake!
 
1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%) Click here for info
2. Nietzsche (80%) Click here for info
3. David Hume (78%) Click here for info
4. Spinoza (71%) Click here for info
5. Kant (66%) Click here for info
6. Stoics (60%) Click here for info
7. Aquinas (53%) Click here for info
8. Ayn Rand (53%) Click here for info
9. Aristotle (51%) Click here for info
10. St. Augustine (48%) Click here for info
11. John Stuart Mill (47%) Click here for info
12. Thomas Hobbes (46%) Click here for info
13. Jeremy Bentham (39%) Click here for info
14. Nel Noddings (38%) Click here for info
15. Ockham (38%) Click here for info
16. Cynics (37%) Click here for info
17. Epicureans (33%) Click here for info
18. Plato (30%) Click here for info
19. Prescriptivism (30%) Click here for info
 
live!
I took this fast, apparently I'm 100% cynic :p

1. Cynics (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (96%)
3. Nel Noddings (94%)
4. Jeremy Bentham (90%)
5. Thomas Hobbes (90%)
6. Nietzsche (81%)
7. Epicureans (80%)
8. David Hume (69%)
9. John Stuart Mill (67%)
10. Ayn Rand (65%)
11. Stoics (52%)
12. Kant (49%)
13. Aquinas (42%)
14. Prescriptivism (41%)
15. Aristotle (39%)
16. St. Augustine (28%)
17. Spinoza (26%)
18. Ockham (22%)
19. Plato (22%)
 
1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. Jeremy Bentham (71%)
3. Spinoza (70%)
4. Kant (59%)
5. Stoics (50%)
6. Aquinas (49%)
7. Thomas Hobbes (49%)
8. Prescriptivism (46%)
9. Epicureans (46%)
10. John Stuart Mill (45%)
11. Ayn Rand (40%)
12. Nel Noddings (40%)
13. Aristotle (39%)
14. David Hume (31%)
15. Nietzsche (31%)
16. St. Augustine (28%)
17. Plato (27%)
18. Cynics (20%)
19. Ockham (16%)
 
1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Kant (100%)
3. Aquinas (96%)
4. Stoics (86%)
5. Aristotle (84%)
6. Jeremy Bentham (83%)
7. Spinoza (80%)
8. St. Augustine (67%)
9. Ayn Rand (66%)
10. Cynics (66%)
11. Prescriptivism (66%)
12. Ockham (60%)
13. Epicureans (54%)
14. Jean-Paul Sartre (48%)
15. Plato (48%)
16. David Hume (42%)
17. Nel Noddings (42%)
18. Nietzsche (36%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (25%)

I'm not much into philosophy although I read some of my father's books, but it seems that Kant is right up my alley. Or perhaps I'm right up at his.
 
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