Test: which moral philosophy is yours (even if you don't know it)

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Me
01. Thomas Hobbes (100%)
19. St. Augustine (20%)

Obiwan
01. St. Augustine (100%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (12%)

Hello there

[Main_Brain]

Kant
Satre
Aristotele

Very Correct.

[Uncle Sparky]

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)

2. Jeremy Bentham (73%)

3. Kant (69%)

.. Doesn't surprise me. I did notice, however, that quite a few who posted their results had several score philosophies over 75%. I only had one. Also the next in line was the Perscriptionists, down at about 58%.

Funny how no eastern philosophers made the cut.

[Lazerus]

1. Jeremy Bentham (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (98%)
3. Plato (96%)
4. Thomas Hobbes (94%)
5. Ayn Rand (87%)
6. Aquinas (82%)
7. John Stuart Mill (80%)
8. St. Augustine (79%)
9. Aristotle (73%)
10. Nietzsche (73%)
11. Cynics (62%)
12. Epicureans (62%)
13. Kant (60%)
14. Prescriptivism (58%)
15. David Hume (53%)
16. Spinoza (52%)
17. Nel Noddings (47%)
18. Stoics (33%)
19. Ockham (7%)

I've never been much into reading philosophy so can some1 give me a quick jist of what i am ?
I'm sure most of the people getting roughly equal scores have almost opposite ideas ....

[Shadowstrike]

1. Epicureans
2. John Stuart Mill
3. Thomas Hobbes
4. Jeremy Bentham
5. Ayn Rand
6. Nietzsche
7. Jean-Paul Sartre
8. Aquinas
9. Aristotle
10. Cynics

Pretty much what I expected... I never thought that Nietzsche would be so high on hte list though...

[civman2000]

1. Spinoza
2. Bentham
3. Epicureans
4. Aristotle
5. Aquinas

After looking at the little blurbs on the philosophers, I concluded that it misinterpreted my belief that living morally will in the long run make you happy as beign that what is moral is in general what makes you happy.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Agathon -

Geez, how many times have you announced your expertise in critical thinking, logic, teaching, blah blah blah, when your arguments were challenged? And you started this thread off with, "In fact as someone who does professional philosophy I think it is one of the better tests I've seen online". I have yet to see you in a debate where you didn't start touting your alleged credentials as a superior thinker.

Obviously, you haven't been reading much. I put that in at the beginning because it's my professional opinion regarding the subject of my job. I'd also like to see what a professional psych teacher would say about Red Jon's tests. If there was some quiz or statement made that some Apolytoner was reasonably expert about, I'd want to hear their views.

Trying to turn this into anything else is just silly.

Sounds like an indictment of the test makers, not the test takers. When I took it, I got 100% for Rand and 94% for Mill, and yet, some here claim Mill was a socialist. Maybe you can explain how a socialist would be so close to Rand. And while you're at it, explain which question on the test revealed a desire for the welfare state. Let's see some of that critical thinking in action for a change.

I already explained this. What the test does is test your metaethical views, rather than your normative views.

Metaethical views = your view about the nature and structure of morality (i.e. do you believe it's about human well being, natural rights or God's will, etc. etc.)

Normative views = your moral judgements about substantive moral issues, like whether you think welfare payments are right or wrong.

There is no ironclad logical connection between the latter and the former. In other words it is possible to agree with someone like Rand about what form moral arguments and justifications have to take without agreeing with the positions she takes on things. In the example I gave above both Rand and Aristotle believe that human nature is essentially rational and that ethics has primarily to do with the flourishing of human beings. However, while they share this conception they draw different conclusions on it based on their other beliefs.

Given that people on this forum are often surprised when they find themselves agreeing on points with their usual enemies, I think this was a test worth taking. For example, Obiwan18 expresses surprise that he occasionally agrees with me. The test shows that he shouldn't be surprised since our metaethical views overlap to a considerable degree, even though I'm not a theist. Similarly, many people had Aquinas high on their list without believing in God. This is because they share a lot of beliefs about morality with him, even though not all.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Lazerus
1. Jeremy Bentham (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (98%)
3. Plato (96%)
4. Thomas Hobbes (94%)
5. Ayn Rand (87%)

I've never been much into reading philosophy so can some1 give me a quick jist of what i am ?
I'm sure most of the people getting roughly equal scores have almost opposite ideas ....

That's such a weird concatenation of opposed views that I can't see how to reconcile them. I suppose that Bentham, Plato and Hobbes all favour authoritarianism in some form. But Rand and Sartre are rugged individualists.

Strange....

[Starchild]

Oh lordy, look at all the Satre-phils. Apolyton's going existenselist on us. Gonna have people running around with the nausea of freedom soon....

*gets out the "Life is Meaningless but that's OK cause You are Your own Moral Agent" sickbags.*

[Al B. Sure!]

1. Aquinas (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (94%)
3. Kant (92%)
4. Aristotle (91%)
5. Nietzsche (85%)
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (84%)

weird combination

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Starchild
Oh lordy, look at all the Satre-phils. Apolyton's going existenselist on us. Gonna have people running around with the nausea of freedom soon....

Yeah, vomiting on trees that they can't identify as trees...

I must admit the Sartre thing surprised me. I expected most people to agree with Mill, Hobbes and Rand (the last only because she has so many disciples here).

[Al B. Sure!]

do people generally consider Nietzsche to be an existentialist? most of his ideas do seem to be a militant, right-wing version of existentialism

[Sirotnikov]

1. Kant (100%) (read about him a bit in school)
2. John Stuart Mill (85%) (read about him on the net)
3. Jeremy Bentham (80%) (who?)
4. Spinoza (76%) (heard alot about him but haven't read him)
5. Stoics (75%) (i remember hearing their name in school)
6. Epicureans (69%) (same as stoics)
7. Jean-Paul Sartre (69%) (his name is familiar. that's it)
8. Prescriptivism (65%) (huh?)
9. David Hume (55%) (read about him in school)
10. Nietzsche (55%) (read him )
11. Ayn Rand (51%) (who?)
12. Aristotle (49%) (read little about his actual thoughts)
13. Aquinas (44%) (seems familiar. don't remember)
14. Nel Noddings (42%) (who?)
15. Thomas Hobbes (42%) (read a bit about him in school)
16. Cynics (29%) (remember little about them from school)
17. St. Augustine (27%) (know his name. that's it)
18. Plato (20%) (remember very little about him)
19. Ockham (17%) (who?)

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Uncle Sparky
Funny how no eastern philosophers made the cut.

There doesn't seem to be any on the list.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
do people generally consider Nietzsche to be an existentialist? most of his ideas do seem to be a militant, right-wing version of existentialism