ethical philosophy selector quiz

[Starr]

not a bad quiz:
www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY

My results:
1. Thomas Hobbes (100%) Click here for info
2. David Hume (98%) Click here for info
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (97%) Click here for info
4. Nietzsche (93%) Click here for info
5. Ayn Rand (88%) Click here for info

[Berianidze]

My results:

1. Plato (100%) Click here for info
2. Aquinas (90%) Click here for info
3. Thomas Hobbes (88%) Click here for info
4. Aristotle (85%) Click here for info
5. Jeremy Bentham (83%) Click here for info
6. St. Augustine (75%) Click here for info
7. Ayn Rand (68%) Click here for info
8. John Stuart Mill (64%) Click here for info
9. Kant (57%) Click here for info
10. Spinoza (54%) Click here for info

[Leif]

Fairly accurate, I'd say. Jeremy Bentham was my top result.

[jcs]

I scored highest with Nietzsche. I disagree with the description they gave of his philosophy, though:
-Free will
-There is no God

I don't recall Nietzsche saying much on the issue of free will, though he favored volitional (willfull) action and anticipated 'authenticity' to some degree. However, much of what he said could be considered arguments against free will.
As for the non-existence of God, Nietzsche simply announced an historical event (the death of God) and didn't care much for those who relied heavily on comforting notions of God. He was an atheist, but his atheism is rather unimportant to his philosophy, so I don't know why they decided to list that as one of the characteristics of his thought.

[The Retard]

Jeremy Bentham was my top result.

[Ahknaton]

Aquinas and then Plato

[raven]

I haven't read anything on Spinoza yet. (after doing philosophy for a couple years) Who is this guy? I looked him up on wikipedia and it mentioned he was a determinist and I am definately not. I believe there is a degree of free will and determinism. I guess that would make me a compatibilist or something.

Your Results:

1. Spinoza (100%) Click here for info
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (93%) Click here for info
3. Jeremy Bentham (91%) Click here for info
4. Nietzsche (90%) Click here for info
5. Aquinas (88%) Click here for info
6. Epicureans (78%) Click here for info
7. John Stuart Mill (78%) Click here for info
8. Thomas Hobbes (78%) Click here for info
9. David Hume (74%) Click here for info
10. St. Augustine (67%) Click here for info
11. Stoics (65%) Click here for info
12. Aristotle (63%) Click here for info
13. Cynics (61%) Click here for info
14. Plato (57%) Click here for info
15. Ayn Rand (55%) Click here for info
16. Kant (48%) Click here for info
17. Nel Noddings (47%) Click here for info
18. Prescriptivism (44%) Click here for info
19. Ockham (19%) Click here for info

[jcs]

I haven't read anything on Spinoza yet. (after doing philosophy for a couple years) Who is this guy? I looked him up on wikipedia and it mentioned he was a determinist and I am definately not. I believe there is a degree of free will and determinism. I guess that would make me a compatibilist or something.
He was a pantheist and an influence on Nietzsche. Read his Ethics.

[Helios Panoptes]

1) Aristotle(98%)
2) Spinoza(92%)
3) Nietzsche(90%)

Ayn Rand was last.

For jcs: The causa sui is the best self-contradiction which has been thought up so far, a kind of logical rape and perversity. But the excessive pride of human beings has worked to entangle itself deeply and terribly with this very nonsense. The demand for "freedom of the will," in that superlative metaphysical sense, as it unfortunately still rules in the heads of the half-educated, the demand to bear the entire final responsibility for one's actions oneself and to relieve god, the world, ancestors, chance, and society of responsibility for it, is naturally nothing less than this very causa sui and an attempt to pull oneself into existence out of the swamp of nothingness by the hair, with more audacity than Munchhausen .

Suppose someone in this way gets behind the boorish simplicity of this famous idea of the "free will" and erases it from his head, then I would invite him to push "enlightenment" a step further and erase even the inverse of this idea of "free will" from his head: I refer to the "unfree will," which leads to an abuse of cause and effect. People should not mistakenly reify "cause" and "effect" the way those investigating nature do (and people like them who nowadays naturalize their thinking—) in accordance with the ruling mechanistic foolishness which allows causes to push and shove until they "have an effect."

People should use "cause" and "effect" merely as pure ideas, that is, as conventional fictions for the purpose of indicating and communicating, not as an explanation. In the "in itself" there is no "causal connection," no "necessity," no "psychological unfreedom" and hence no "effect of the cause"; no law holds sway. We are the ones who have, on our own, made up causes, causal sequences, for-one-another, relativity, compulsion, number, law, freedom, reason, and purpose, and when we fabricate this world of signs inside things as something "in itself," when we stir them into things, then we're once again acting as we have always done, namely, mythologically.

The "unfree will" is a myth: in real life it's simply a matter of strong and weak wills. It is almost always a symptom of something lacking in a thinker himself once he senses in all "causal connections" and "psychological necessity" some purpose, necessity, inevitable consequence, pressure, and unfreedom. To feel that is a tell-tale give away—the person is betraying himself.

And if I have seen things correctly, the problem of the "unfreedom of the will" has generally been seen from two totally contrasting points of view, but always in a deeply personal way: some people are not willing at any price to let go of their "responsibility," their belief in themselves, their personal right to the credit (the vain races belong to this group—); the others want the reverse—they don't wish to be responsible, to be guilty of anything, and demand, out of an inner self-contempt, that they can shift blame for themselves somewhere else.

People in this second group, when they write books, are in the habit nowadays of taking up the cause of criminals; a sort of socialist pity is their most attractive disguise. And in fact, the fatalism of those with weak wills brightens up amazingly when it learns how to present itself as "la religion de la souffrance humaine"—that's its "good taste"

[Niko Bellic]

1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Ayn Rand (98%)
3. Epicureans (98%)
4. Jeremy Bentham (82%)
5. Aristotle (78%)
6. Prescriptivism (72%)
7. Kant (70%)
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (67%)
9. Thomas Hobbes (67%)
10. Ockham (63%)
11. Aquinas (60%)
12. Nietzsche (58%)
13. Cynics (56%)
14. Spinoza (43%)
15. Plato (41%)
16. David Hume (38%)
17. Nel Noddings (38%)
18. Stoics (36%)
19. St. Augustine (35%)

[Banat]

My results:

1. St. Augustine (100%)
2. Aquinas (94%)
3. Ockham (93%)
4. Spinoza (89%)
5. Plato (70%)
and so on.

[Anima Eternae]

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. Thomas Hobbes (95%)
3. Jeremy Bentham (90%)
4. Nel Noddings (82%)
5. Epicureans (79%)
6. John Stuart Mill (75%)
7. Nietzsche (67%)
8. Cynics (64%)
9. Plato (64%)
10. Aquinas (59%)
11. David Hume (59%)
12. Aristotle (58%)
13. Kant (56%)
14. Ayn Rand (51%)
15. Prescriptivism (51%)
16. St. Augustine (41%)
17. Stoics (40%)
18. Spinoza (37%)
19. Ockham (29%)

[Helios Panoptes]

Who the hell is Nel Noddings, anyway? Never even heard of that person.

[jcs]

Who the hell is Nel Noddings, anyway? Never even heard of that person.
There's not even an entry for that person on wikipedia--!
I think she's some feminist.

[The Retard]

There's not even an entry for that person on wikipedia--!
I think she's some feminist.

Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Second Edition, with a New Preface -- by Nel Noddings

:D

[Aule]

1. Stoics (100%)
2. Aquinas (69%)
3. David Hume (69%)
4. Thomas Hobbes (67%)
5. Nietzsche (64%)
6. Aristotle (63%)
7. Cynics (60%)
8. Spinoza (60%)
9. Jean-Paul Sartre (59%)
10. Ayn Rand (51%)
11. Nel Noddings (49%)
12. Kant (43%)
13. Plato (35%)
14. Epicureans (32%)
15. St. Augustine (32%)
16. Ockham (29%)
17. Jeremy Bentham (25%)
18. John Stuart Mill (24%)
19. Prescriptivism (8%)

[Geist]

Aristotle 100%, makes sense. I'm a fan of his character ethics.

[ironweed]

Yuck, I appear to be a through and through Randroid. :(


1. Ayn Rand (100%) Click here for info
2. Aristotle (87%) Click here for info
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (82%) Click here for info
4. Aquinas (76%) Click here for info
5. Stoics (76%) Click here for info
6. Kant (73%) Click here for info
7. David Hume (68%) Click here for info
8. Nietzsche (60%) Click here for info
9. Plato (60%) Click here for info
10. Nel Noddings (58%) Click here for info

[Fade the Butcher]

I'm not really surprised.

Your Results:

1. Plato (100%)
2. St. Augustine (89%)
3. Aquinas (83%)
4. Aristotle (73%)
5. Ayn Rand (66%)
6. Cynics (62%)
7. Jeremy Bentham (62%)
8. John Stuart Mill (60%)
9. David Hume (55%)
10. Kant (55%)
11. Spinoza (54%)
12. Stoics (43%)
13. Nietzsche (41%)
14. Epicureans (38%)
15. Thomas Hobbes (38%)
16. Nel Noddings (37%)
17. Ockham (35%)
18. Jean-Paul Sartre (32%)
19. Prescriptivism (25%)

[Fade the Butcher]

Yuck, I appear to be a through and through Randroid. :(My condolences. :(

[1-800]

Aquinas
St. Augustine
Spinoza

were my top three.

[Anarch]

I'm not especially suprised.

Your Results:

1. Aristotle (100%)
2. Plato (91%)
3. Aquinas (84%)
4. Jeremy Bentham (78%)
5. John Stuart Mill (73%)
6. Ayn Rand (68%)
7. Epicureans (63%)
8. St. Augustine (62%)
9. Spinoza (61%)
10. David Hume (59%)
11. Thomas Hobbes (59%)
12. Nietzsche (50%)
13. Cynics (49%)
14. Stoics (49%)
15. Kant (44%)
16. Jean-Paul Sartre (37%)
17. Prescriptivism (36%)
18. Nel Noddings (31%)
19. Ockham (30%)

[Roland]

My results
1. David Hume (100%)
2. Stoics (79%)
3. Plato (75%)
4. Nietzsche (70%)

[anti-climacus]

Aquinas 100%

[Jimbo Gomez]

Ayn Rand 100%

[IlluSionS667]

My results :

1. Aquinas (100%)
2. St. Augustine (83%)
3. Aristotle (82%)
4. Spinoza (78%)
5. Jeremy Bentham (60%)
6. Plato (60%)
7. John Stuart Mill (56%)
8. Ockham (52%)
9. Stoics (41%)
10. Kant (38%)
11. Cynics (36%)
12. Epicureans (36%)
13. Ayn Rand (33%)
14. David Hume (33%)
15. Jean-Paul Sartre (31%)
16. Nietzsche (28%)
17. Prescriptivism (27%)
18. Nel Noddings (22%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (16%)


This is so NOT me. Below, I colored agreement green and disagreement red.

My conclusion : this test is nonsense.


Aquinas (1225 or '27-1274)


All life has a purpose
Meeting this purpose allows one to be happy.
Happiness is to be found in the love of God.
God's grace providing entrance into heaven creates the highest form of human happiness.
Short of heaven, a person can achieve a more limited form of happiness through a life of virtue and friendship.
Morality is not determined by the arbitrary will of God.
Morality is derived from human nature and the activities that are objectively suited to it.
The difference between right and wrong can be appreciated through the use of reason and reflection.
Religious reflection may supplement the use of reason and reflection to determine right from wrong.
Societies must enact laws to ensure the correct application of moral reasoning.
Human nature is good because God made it good.

[Razor Ramon]

I am surprised by this.

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%) Click here for info
2. Ayn Rand (72%) Click here for info
3. Aquinas (66%) Click here for info
4. Spinoza (65%) Click here for info
5. Cynics (64%) Click here for info
6. Nietzsche (64%) Click here for info
7. Jeremy Bentham (57%) Click here for info
8. Thomas Hobbes (51%) Click here for info
9. Plato (48%) Click here for info
10. St. Augustine (48%) Click here for info


http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/67/186/780/0671867806.jpg

[IlluSionS667]

I am surprised by this.

As I said, this test is nonsense. Don't pay too much attention to the results :p

[Elysium]

1. Nietzsche (100%)
2. Stoics (91%)
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (81%)
4. Spinoza (81%)
5. David Hume (68%)
6. Ayn Rand (67%)
7. Cynics (57%)
8. Kant (52%)
9. Epicureans (51%)
10. Nel Noddings (50%)

I am not surprised at all.:)

[sugartits]

Nietzsche (100%)
Jean-Paul Sartre (69%)
David Hume (68%)

Plato is last on my list.

"There is only one model of the just person." What a stickler!

[Jonathan]

Bentham.:confused:

[Ravenheart]

Ayn Rand 100%

Surprising. I got Aquinas.

[Hippias]

My results:

1. St. Augustine (100%)
2. Aquinas (89%)
3. Ockham (69%)
4. Plato (63%)
5. Spinoza (62%)
6. John Stuart Mill (58%)
7. Jeremy Bentham (48%)
8. Epicureans (46%)
9. Aristotle (46%)
10. Ayn Rand (37%)

[Scryllak]

I'm glad this thread was necro'd. Interesting test, at the least.



1. David Hume (100%)
2. Cynics (94%)
3. Nietzsche (93%)
4. Stoics (93%)
5. Thomas Hobbes (92%)
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (80%)
7. Ayn Rand (67%)
8. Nel Noddings (62%)
9. Aristotle (58%)
10. Aquinas (57%)
11. Spinoza (55%)
12. Epicureans (43%)
13. John Stuart Mill (41%)
14. Kant (40%)
15. Plato (36%)
16. Jeremy Bentham (35%)
17. St. Augustine (32%)
18. Ockham (30%)
19. Prescriptivism (18%)

Don't know what the hell some of that is.

[Boleslaw]

Im very surprised with my top result. I usually dont care too much for Augustine.

1. St. Augustine (100%)
2. Aquinas (98%)
3. Spinoza (87%)
4. Kant (67%)
5. Ockham (65%)
6. Stoics (60%)
7. Aristotle (58%)
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (55%)
9. Plato (55%)
10. Jeremy Bentham (54%)
11. John Stuart Mill (53%)
12. Nietzsche (49%)
13. Ayn Rand (45%)
14. Epicureans (45%)
15. Nel Noddings (44%)
16. Prescriptivism (37%)
17. Cynics (34%)
18. David Hume (34%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (11%)

Ok let me see......

Augustine (354-430)

Happiness is a union of the soul with God after one has died
Bodily pleasures are relatively inferior to spiritual pleasures.
Philosophical reasoning is not the path to wisdom and happiness.
A love of God and faith in Jesus is the only path to happiness.
God is the one to allow people to practice the love of God.
One must love God in order to fulfill moral law.
People are inherently evil; only the grace of God (or is it merit to be saved?) can save them.


I hardly agree with any of these precepts. I have more in common with Aquinas:

Aquinas (1225 or '27-1274)

All life has a purpose
Meeting this purpose allows one to be happy.
Happiness is to be found in the love of God.
God's grace providing entrance into heaven creates the highest form of human happiness.
Short of heaven, a person can achieve a more limited form of happiness through a life of virtue and friendship.
Morality is not determined by the arbitrary will of God.
Morality is derived from human nature and the activities that are objectively suited to it.
The difference between right and wrong can be appreciated through the use of reason and reflection.
Religious reflection may supplement the use of reason and reflection to determine right from wrong.
Societies must enact laws to ensure the correct application of moral reasoning.
Human nature is good because God made it good.

[Heavens to Betsy]

Kant!
:nuts:

Mill as number 2, and Rand as 3.

We have to get all the way down to Sartre at number 4 before I see anyone I'd give the time of day.

[Ravenheart]

I made the test again, and somehow managed to get 100% for both Aquinas and Plato.

[Brechun]

1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Jeremy Bentham (91%)
3. Epicureans (82%)
4. Aquinas (79%)
5. Aristotle (75%)
6. Kant (64%)
7. Spinoza (55%)
8. Prescriptivism (53%)
9. Ayn Rand (49%)
10. Ockham (47%)
11. Cynics (44%)
12. Jean-Paul Sartre (42%)
13. St. Augustine (42%)
14. Nel Noddings (42%)
15. Plato (42%)
16. Stoics (33%)
17. Thomas Hobbes (31%)
18. Nietzsche (30%)
19. David Hume (22%)

Not surprising in the least. Although I vehemently disagree with basic utilitarianism- the version I adhere to isn't even that common.

[Watzy]

1. Aristotle (100%)
2. Aquinas (82%)
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (77%)
4. Jeremy Bentham (77%)
5. Nietzsche (68%)
6. Spinoza (68%)
7. Thomas Hobbes (68%)
8. Ayn Rand (67%)
9. Epicureans (67%)
10. Plato (67%)
11. David Hume (64%)
12. Stoics (56%)
13. John Stuart Mill (53%)
14. Nel Noddings (41%)
15. St. Augustine (40%)
16. Kant (39%)
17. Cynics (27%)
18. Prescriptivism (22%)
19. Ockham (15%)

[VAMPIR]

1. Aristotle (100%) Click here for info
2. Ayn Rand (99%) Click here for info
3. Plato (95%) Click here for info
4. John Stuart Mill (85%) Click here for info
5. Aquinas (82%) Click here for info
6. St. Augustine (73%) Click here for info
7. Jeremy Bentham (67%) Click here for info
8. Spinoza (64%) Click here for info
9. Epicureans (62%) Click here for info
10. Kant (62%) Click here for info
11. Jean-Paul Sartre (59%) Click here for info
12. Stoics (58%) Click here for info
13. David Hume (54%) Click here for info
14. Prescriptivism (49%) Click here for info
15. Thomas Hobbes (49%) Click here for info
16. Nietzsche (45%) Click here for info
17. Ockham (31%) Click here for info
18. Cynics (24%) Click here for info
19. Nel Noddings (11%) Click

[antibuddha]

1. Stoics (100%) Click here for info
2. Cynics (98%) Click here for info
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (93%) Click here for info
4. Spinoza (87%) Click here for info
5. Kant (86%) Click here for info
6. Nietzsche (82%) Click here for info
7. David Hume (79%) Click here for info
8. Aquinas (72%) Click here for info
9. St. Augustine (68%) Click here for info
10. Thomas Hobbes (62%) Click here for info
11. Nel Noddings (60%) Click here for info
12. Jeremy Bentham (58%) Click here for info
13. John Stuart Mill (50%) Click here for info
14. Ayn Rand (48%) Click here for info
15. Epicureans (44%) Click here for info
16. Aristotle (43%) Click here for info
17. Ockham (43%) Click here for info
18. Plato (36%) Click here for info
19. Prescriptivism (17%)

I'm glad to find Plato on the bottom, I must say...

HOWEVER

#

Stoicism
# The common capacity to reason allows all humans to achieve virtue and wisdom.
# The external circumstances of a person's life are irrelevant.
# One can achieve virtue by becoming indifferent to external differences.
# Passions must be rejected all together in deciding what is good and what is bad.
# Reason alone must be used in deciding what is good and what is bad.
# The common ability of humans to reason is why ethical relativism should be rejected.

This is the opposite of what I believe. Either the test seriously misinterpreted my answers or I misinterpreted how to answer the questions.

[antibuddha]

pardon double post, comp is being screwy

[Dr. Gutberlet]

Your Results:


1. Nietzsche (100%)
2. David Hume (75%)
3. Stoics (68%)
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (65%)
5. Spinoza (57%)
6. Thomas Hobbes (50%)
7. Aristotle (47%)
8. Cynics (43%)
9. Epicureans (43%)
10. Kant (40%)
11. Ockham (36%)
12. Prescriptivism (36%)
13. Aquinas (34%)
14. Ayn Rand (34%)
15. Nel Noddings (31%)
16. St. Augustine (25%)
17. Jeremy Bentham (23%)
18. John Stuart Mill (21%)
19. Plato (18%)

[Vasily Zaitsev]

1. Kant (100%)

[delete]

To many moral quesions in the test.

1. Nietzsche (100%) Click here for info
2. Stoics (99%) Click here for info
3. David Hume (97%) Click here for info
4. Cynics (79%) Click here for info

The test did hit home by the way.