Who does your ethical philosphies most match with ? (Quiz)

[BigSoonerFan]

Has anyone else taken this?

Ethical Philosophy Selector (http://selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/)

[BigSoonerFan]

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Or ethical philosophy.....

[BigSoonerFan]

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Has anyone else taken this?

Ethical Philosophy Selector (http://selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/)

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Or ethical philosophy.....

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Or how about philosophical ethics? (time for a nap....)

[bholdr]

Very cool... my results (no suprise):



1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. Ayn Rand (67%)
3. Cynics (57%)
4. Thomas Hobbes (57%)
5. Stoics (57%)
6. David Hume (56%)
7. Nietzsche (56%)

[Siegmund]

Fun quiz. Not entirely sure I agree with the results.

It put Ayn Rand and Jean-Paul Sartre at the top of my list, yet I truly detest Ayn Rand's novels, and disagree with fully half of the points in the site's summary of Sartre's beliefs. (Apparently I disagree with half of the points on EVERYone's list, if this was the top of the heap.)

On the other hand, it put Hume and Hobbes way down at the bottom, which is exactly where they belong. The names I guessed would be at the top, Kant and Nietzsche, finished in the middle of the pack.

[purnell]

1. David Hume (100%)
2. Nietzsche (97%)
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (93%)
4. Thomas Hobbes (93%)

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>1. Jeremy Bentham (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (94%)
3. John Stuart Mill (86%)
4. Epicureans (77%)
5. Kant (75%)
6. Nel Noddings (65%)
7. Ayn Rand (57%)
8. Aquinas (55%)
9. Spinoza (53%)
10. Aristotle (50%)
11. Stoics (50%)
12. Nietzsche (49%)
13. Prescriptivism (47%)
14. David Hume (42%)
15. Thomas Hobbes (42%)
16. Cynics (35%)
17. St. Augustine (30%)
18. Plato (21%)
19. Ockham (17%)</pre><hr />

[Borodog]

1. Ayn Rand (100%)
2. Kant (85%)
3. Stoics (76%)
4. David Hume (74%)
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (74%)
6. Nietzsche (74%)
7. Thomas Hobbes (63%)
8. John Stuart Mill (61%)
9. Cynics (52%)
10. Epicureans (51%)
11. Spinoza (48%)
12. Aquinas (43%)
13. Aristotle (43%)
14. Prescriptivism (38%)
15. Nel Noddings (36%)
16. Jeremy Bentham (35%)
17. Plato (29%)
18. St. Augustine (27%)
19. Ockham (15%)

[imported_luckyme]

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. Kant (88%)
3. Jeremy Bentham (86%)
4. John Stuart Mill (85%)

I hafta get out more.

[Godfather80]

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Has anyone else taken this?

Ethical Philosophy Selector (http://selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/)

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No shocker to me. Nice quiz.

1. Stoics (100%) Click here for info
2. Nietzsche (96%) Click here for info
3. Spinoza (96%) Click here for info

[ZeeJustin]

I don't like the way a lot of these questions and answers are worded but...

1. Thomas Hobbes (100%) Click here for info
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (80%) Click here for info
3. Nietzsche (80%) Click here for info

I think most of my answers were influenced greatly by my lack of faith in the common man.

[mosquito]

I Kant believe this -


1. Kant (100%) Click here for info
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (96%) Click here for info
3. John Stuart Mill (89%) Click here for info

Guess it's time to do some reading.

edit: looked at nutshell descriptions, and find it hard to believe the matches. Of course I had disagreed with nearly all the options available. That may have meant something.

[Darryl_P]

Cool quiz.

1. Aquinas (100%)
2. St. Augustine (76%)
3. Aristotle (73%)

Aristotle has been my hero up to now. Gotta read up on these other 2 dudes.

[PokerAmateur4]

1. John Stuart Mill (100%) Click here for info
2. Jeremy Bentham (93%) Click here for info
3. Kant (91%) Click here for info
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (88%) Click here for info
5. Ayn Rand (87%) Click here for info
6. Prescriptivism (79%) Click here for info
7. Aquinas (75%) Click here for info
8. Aristotle (63%) Click here for info
9. Epicureans (56%) Click here for info
10. Stoics (47%) Click here for info
11. Spinoza (46%) Click here for info
12. Nel Noddings (45%) Click here for info
13. Thomas Hobbes (43%) Click here for info
14. St. Augustine (39%) Click here for info
15. Ockham (38%) Click here for info
16. Nietzsche (37%) Click here for info
17. David Hume (31%) Click here for info
18. Plato (29%) Click here for info
19. Cynics (18%) Click here for info

My Results:

1. David Hume (100%) Click here for info
2. Ayn Rand (95%) Click here for info
3. Cynics (88%) Click here for info
4. Aristotle (88%) Click here for info
5. Nietzsche (85%) Click here for info
6. Thomas Hobbes (81%) Click here for info
7. Jean-Paul Sartre (73%) Click here for info
8. Jeremy Bentham (70%) Click here for info
9. Aquinas (69%) Click here for info
10. John Stuart Mill (66%) Click here for info
11. Stoics (62%) Click here for info
12. Plato (56%) Click here for info
13. Nel Noddings (50%) Click here for info
14. Spinoza (44%) Click here for info
15. Kant (43%) Click here for info
16. Epicureans (41%) Click here for info
17. St. Augustine (39%) Click here for info
18. Ockham (37%) Click here for info
19. Prescriptivism (33%) Click here for info

Hi luckyme,
You and I match. I'm 100% Sarte - an existentialist. What is existentialism? I looked it up on a couple of sites and couldn't understand a word written. Can anyone explain this philosophy in a manner that a fifth grader can understand?

[NotReady]

1. St. Augustine (100%) Click here for info
2. Aquinas (82%) Click here for info
3. Spinoza (68%) Click here for info
4. Ockham (56%) Click here for info
5. Plato (56%) Click here for info
6. Aristotle (42%) Click here for info
7. Jeremy Bentham (42%) Click here for info
8. John Stuart Mill (41%) Click here for info
9. Kant (34%) Click here for info
10. David Hume (28%) Click here for info
11. Stoics (28%) Click here for info
12. Ayn Rand (26%) Click here for info
13. Cynics (26%) Click here for info
14. Epicureans (26%) Click here for info
15. Prescriptivism (26%) Click here for info
16. Jean-Paul Sartre (25%) Click here for info
17. Nietzsche (24%) Click here for info
18. Nel Noddings (20%) Click here for info
19. Thomas Hobbes (10%) Click here for info

Augustine - the first Reformed theologian.

[NotReady]

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Can anyone explain this philosophy in a manner that a fifth grader can understand


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God doesn't exist - all is permitted.

1. Stoic (100%)
2. Sartre (96%)
3. Rand (93%)
4. Kant (90%)
5. Spinoza (72%)
6. Nietzsche (64%)

As far as a personal description of my ethical views, I am a rule utilitarian, at least as far as Ethics 101 was concerned.

[DougShrapnel]

1. Ayn Rand (100%) Click here for info
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (98%) Click here for info
3. David Hume (93%) Click here for info
4. Nietzsche (87%) Click here for info
5. Thomas Hobbes (85%) Click here for info
6. Aristotle (76%) Click here for info
7. John Stuart Mill (73%) Click here for info
8. Cynics (71%) Click here for info
9. Stoics (66%) Click here for info
10. Nel Noddings (60%) Click here for info
11. Plato (60%) Click here for info
12. Aquinas (58%) Click here for info
13. Jeremy Bentham (58%) Click here for info
14. Epicureans (57%) Click here for info
15. Kant (53%) Click here for info
16. Spinoza (50%) Click here for info
17. Prescriptivism (41%) Click here for info
18. St. Augustine (39%) Click here for info
19. Ockham (36%) Click here for info


fun quiz I could just have easliy chosen some different answers on alot of questions.

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Cool quiz.

1. Aquinas (100%)
2. St. Augustine (76%)
3. Aristotle (73%)

Aristotle has been my hero up to now. Gotta read up on these other 2 dudes.

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I'm sure you'll like them.

[Peter666]

100% Aquinas - tell me something I didn't know - so I guess the quiz is accurate.

[PrayingMantis]

I've checked to see that it isn't some problem with the system and me (by checking other options as a test) but no, these are my true results:

1. Aquinas (0%) Click here for info
2. Aristotle (0%) Click here for info
3. Ayn Rand (0%) Click here for info
4. Cynics (0%) Click here for info
5. David Hume (0%) Click here for info
6. Epicureans (0%) Click here for info
7. Jean-Paul Sartre (0%) Click here for info
8. Jeremy Bentham (0%) Click here for info
9. John Stuart Mill (0%) Click here for info
10. Kant (0%) Click here for info
11. Nel Noddings (0%) Click here for info
12. Nietzsche (0%) Click here for info
13. Ockham (0%) Click here for info
14. Plato (0%) Click here for info
15. Prescriptivism (0%) Click here for info
16. Spinoza (0%) Click here for info
17. St. Augustine (0%) Click here for info
18. Stoics (0%) Click here for info
19. Thomas Hobbes (0%) Click here for info

[PrayingMantis]

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Can anyone explain this philosophy in a manner that a fifth grader can understand

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"God doesn't exist" is there, "all is permitted" is there too in some sense, but saying that this is existentialism, is like saying 2=5 instead of 2+3=5.

[NotReady]

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but saying that this is existentialism, is like saying 2=5 instead of 2+3=5.


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He asked for the 5th grade version.

[Aytumious]

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but saying that this is existentialism, is like saying 2=5 instead of 2+3=5.


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He asked for the 5th grade version.

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That doesn't mean he asked for the "Fundamentalist Christian for Dummies" skewed version.

[Aytumious]

I can't say I'm surprised by the results.

1. Nietzsche (100%) Click here for info
2. David Hume (93%) Click here for info
3. Aristotle (88%) Click here for info
4. Thomas Hobbes (85%) Click here for info
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (74%) Click here for info
6. Stoics (73%) Click here for info
7. Ayn Rand (72%) Click here for info
8. Cynics (70%) Click here for info
9. Epicureans (70%) Click here for info
10. Aquinas (64%) Click here for info
11. Spinoza (63%) Click here for info
12. Nel Noddings (58%) Click here for info
13. John Stuart Mill (53%) Click here for info
14. Plato (50%) Click here for info
15. Kant (47%) Click here for info
16. Jeremy Bentham (43%) Click here for info
17. Ockham (40%) Click here for info
18. St. Augustine (33%) Click here for info
19. Prescriptivism (27%) Click here for info

[Aytumious]

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I've checked to see that it isn't some problem with the system and me (by checking other options as a test) but no, these are my true results:

1. Aquinas (0%) Click here for info
2. Aristotle (0%) Click here for info


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This is what I get when I don't check any boxes and just press "Show my results." Maybe you should try a different browser.

[PrayingMantis]

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but saying that this is existentialism, is like saying 2=5 instead of 2+3=5.

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He asked for the 5th grade version.

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Yes I know. Well maybe there's no sense in explaining existentialism to a 5th grader, so there's no such possible version. But I replied because I thought that your explanation was something like saying: "god exists. all is forbidden" to someone asking what is christianity, which is funny, but doesn't really answer even a 3 years old kid's question.

[NotReady]

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But I replied because I thought that your explanation was something like saying: "god exists. all is forbidden"


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Wrong.

[purnell]

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Hi luckyme,
You and I match. I'm 100% Sarte - an existentialist. What is existentialism? I looked it up on a couple of sites and couldn't understand a word written. Can anyone explain this philosophy in a manner that a fifth grader can understand?

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This is a good place to look: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/

Thank you Purnell and Notready for your replies. Purnell's recommended site is actually one of the first I looked up. I was able to comprehend it better after reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

[PrayingMantis]

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But I replied because I thought that your explanation was something like saying: "god exists. all is forbidden"

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Oh, so you mean to say that I didn't reply because I thought that your explanation was something like saying: "god exists. all is forbidden" to someone asking what is christianity?

In case anyone's interested, here is where my confusion stemmed. This is a cut and paste from Purnell's recommended site:
The in-itself is solid, self-identical, passive and inert. It simply "is." The for-itself is fluid, nonself-identical, and dynamic. It is the internal negation or "nihilation" of the in-itself, on which it depends. Viewed more concretely, this duality is cast as "facticity" and "transcendence."

Is it just me? Or is this stuff a bit difficult to understand?

[NotReady]

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Oh, so you mean to say that I didn't reply because I thought that your explanation was something like saying: "god exists. all is forbidden" to someone asking what is christianity?


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I can't translate this.

[Aytumious]

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In case anyone's interested, here is where my confusion stemmed. This is a cut and paste from Purnell's recommended site:
The in-itself is solid, self-identical, passive and inert. It simply "is." The for-itself is fluid, nonself-identical, and dynamic. It is the internal negation or "nihilation" of the in-itself, on which it depends. Viewed more concretely, this duality is cast as "facticity" and "transcendence."

Is it just me? Or is this stuff a bit difficult to understand?

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Much of "existential" philosophy in the 20th century reads like nonsense. Crack open some Heidegger and you'll quickly agree with me.

[purnell]

I think this is the "bottom line" of existentialism as I understand it.

From "Existentialism Is a Humanism", which Luckyme linked to in the other thread:

"Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man or, as Heidegger has it, the human reality. What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world — and defines himself afterwards. If man as the existentialist sees him is not definable, it is because to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself. Thus, there is no human nature, because there is no God to have a conception of it. Man simply is. Not that he is simply what he conceives himself to be, but he is what he wills, and as he conceives himself after already existing — as he wills to be after that leap towards existence. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism."

[BigSoonerFan]

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I must have hit the wrong link.

(1) Yogi Berra (100%)
(2) Tennessee Williams (92%)
(3) Groucho Marx (80%)
(4) Dr Phil (20%)

[r3vbr]

1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Kant (97%)
3. Jeremy Bentham (82%)

[bluesbassman]

Ayn Rand (100%)
Aristotle (81%)
Aquinas (74%)

I'm not surprised by this at all.

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1. Stoic (100%)
2. Sartre (96%)
3. Rand (93%)
4. Kant (90%)
5. Spinoza (72%)
6. Nietzsche (64%)

As far as a personal description of my ethical views, I am a rule utilitarian, at least as far as Ethics 101 was concerned.

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Kinda odd, given that neither Bentham nor Mill appear in your top 6 (though I assume Bentham and Mill were more act utilitarians than rule).

[Aces McGee]

1. John Stuart Mill (100%) Click here for info
2. Kant (93%) Click here for info
3. Jeremy Bentham (77%) Click here for info
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (69%) Click here for info
5. Prescriptivism (69%) Click here for info
6. Ayn Rand (68%) Click here for info
7. Epicureans (68%) Click here for info
8. Aquinas (51%) Click here for info
9. Aristotle (48%) Click here for info
10. Spinoza (46%) Click here for info
11. Stoics (40%) Click here for info
12. Plato (39%) Click here for info
13. Ockham (34%) Click here for info
14. St. Augustine (31%) Click here for info
15. Thomas Hobbes (27%) Click here for info
16. Nel Noddings (25%) Click here for info
17. David Hume (18%) Click here for info
18. Nietzsche (18%) Click here for info
19. Cynics (13%) Click here for info

I'm not surprised at the above.

-McGee