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

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