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Ethical Philosophy Test

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 08:57pm on 2005-09-22 under ,

I answered a bunch of questions for the Ethical Philosophy Selector and I'm not at all certain they've got the right result for me ...

The list below is modified by your input. The results are scored on a curve. The highest score, 100, represents the closest philosophical match to your reponses. This is not to say that you and the philosopher are in total agreement. However this is a philosophy that you may want to study further.

Your Results:

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

[Argh. I just noticed that in the process of editing this into a form suitable for posting here I screwed up and lost the percentage rankings. Drat.]

Fortunately I'm not about to let a machine define me, but I'll take their suggestion of doing a bit of relevant reading.

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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 01:33am on 2005-09-23
Apparently I'm a Utilitarian. Like we didn't know that already... I object to their terminology, though. I am not a moralist (morals come from outside socialising agencies, that is, society); I'm an ethicist (ethics are self-determined from inner principles and much less dependent on the dictates of fashion and culture), and I'm not sure I quite believe in the concept of "virtue" as they seem to use the term.
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posted by [identity profile] merde.livejournal.com at 04:00am on 2005-09-23
i topped out at 100% with Sartre. since i have no real idea what Sartre stood for beyond their tiny snippet, i can't say whether this is accurate or not.

personally i found the questions poorly worded and occasionally ambiguous, and in more than one case i found the available answers too limited -- why not b and c? that came up for me on the question about self-interest. of course my self-interest is no more important than someone else's, but yes, it's okay if i act in my own interest. i mean, duh. as the Dalai Lama himself said, the purpose of life is to make oneself happy, because the happier one is, the more strength one has to help others.

also, i'm offended that Ayn Rand even showed up at #14 on my list. and who the hell is Nel Noddings? she (apparently) came up #2.
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73% of an Ayn Randist!?

posted by [identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com at 04:34am on 2005-09-23
1. Kant (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (86%)
3. Prescriptivism (80%)
4. John Stuart Mill (74%)
5. Ayn Rand (73%)
6. Jeremy Bentham (72%)
7. Aquinas (69%)
8. Stoics (63%)
9. Nel Noddings (56%)
10. Spinoza (56%)
11. St. Augustine (53%)
12. Aristotle (42%)
13. Plato (40%)
14. Ockham (28%)
15. Epicureans (20%)
16. Nietzsche (18%)
17. David Hume (14%)
18. Cynics (6%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (0%)

I don't mind being 100% Kant, but I think this quiz is rather quarter-assed and inaccurate.
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