Philosophy Quiz

[fluffymark]

Results from the Philosophy Quiz!:

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. Prescriptivism (85%)
3. Spinoza (83%)
4. Stoics (73%)
5. Kant (72%)
6. Jeremy Bentham (68%)
7. David Hume (66%)
8. Nietzsche (66%)
9. Thomas Hobbes (64%)
10. Epicureans (62%)
11. John Stuart Mill (55%)
12. Nel Noddings (53%)
13. Ayn Rand (49%)
14. Aquinas (44%)
15. Cynics (44%)
16. Aristotle (35%)
17. St. Augustine (33%)
18. Plato (27%)
19. Ockham (6%)

So, can anyone tell me what all this means?

Comments

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

Seems to be a useful summary of most of 'em here (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/philosophers.html).
You feeling the existential nausea yet? :)

[fluffymark]

Thanks for the useful link. I read Sophies World a year or two back, and it made sense back then, but now I get all the philosophers confused. Maybe time for a re-read to jiggle my addles brain into action, and then furhter investigation. :)

[emomisy.livejournal.com]

Well, the site give (very) brief summaries of the philosophers, and provides links to websites about them. So a little time spent reading will get you part of the way there, although to gain a fuller understanding will take quite a long time...

[fluffymark]

I've always been meaning to read Sartre, and now I'm even more intriuged, as this site reckons I think along similar moral lines to him. I'll put it on the 'to read' list for when I finish my thesis, and make sure I give it enough of a thorough read to get some understanding from it.

Noticed Simone de Beauvoir's Prime of Life is still sitting in my books by my bedside - that'll join it nicely, I guess.

[secret-vampire.livejournal.com]

It means that i havent got a clue! :P

Ooh i spy a metallica fan!

Lis
xx

[fluffymark]

Yay Metallica! :) :) :) :)

Oh dear...

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

With Sartre and Nietzsche so high up, I would actually be a little concerned. Hm. It's all of a reasonably logical leaning as far as I can tell anyway, which I wouldn't immediately put down for you (when thinking of your personality that is: I know of course that you are very logical when it comes to work and stuff) but there you go. I wonder what I am...

Re: Oh dear...

[fluffymark]

Thats what I thought, the little I know about Sartre and Nietzsche. The test seemed like it was asking deep probing questions, so it must have some level of competence in assessing me. And *you* get Nietzsche top of you list, dearie.

Re: Oh dear...

[(Anonymous)]

Noo noo noo. The test is finding out how much you agree with a paraphrasing of the categorical imperative and then saying you like Kant x much on the basis of that. All the questions are doing is finding out how much you agree with a crude statement of a given philosophical position. It isn't very clever at all. It is also a fairly odd selection of moral and political philosophers, presumably the people who were covered in the undergraduate course in ethics taken by the person who devised the test. And this person must be an American since Nel Noddings is not widely known over here (she is an educationalist who has written widely on the issue of helping children learn about morality).

Not that finding out more about Sartre isn't a cool thing to do, but don't for a moment think that a test like this in anyway defines your position on moral philosophy which is undoubtedly much more subtle and sophisticated than the test allows.

Sorry rant over.

Penny