Ethics test

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Woo-hoo! I am woman, hear me roar!

Alla 3 lähintä filosofia ja osumisprosentit:

1. Mary Wollstonecraft 77.0%
2. Erkki Niinivaara 77.0%
3. Eduard Bernstein 75.0%

I quite admire Wollstonecraft, so that's nice indeed. But not as nice as the next bit of news, which validates my sense that I've been living right:

Ajatuksiasi eniten vieroksuu L. Ron Hubbard 43.0%

Still, there goes my hopes of having Tom Cruise and John Travolta over for dinner.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it

I thought this was interesting: after I took the test and got my match, I hit my "back" button and noticed my answers were still in place. Now, I am by nature even-tempered and a bit of an agnostic in all things, so most of my answers were "agree" and "disagree" rather than "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree." So I changed only the intesity of my answers, to where I had Strongly agree/disagree where I'd previously had agree/disagree and voila:

Alla 3 lähintä filosofia ja osumisprosentit:

1. Gilles Deleuze 77.0%
2. Michel Foucault 73.0%
3. Wolfgang Fritz Haug 70.0%

Ajatuksiasi eniten vieroksuu Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 34.0%

This would suggest that the only thing separating an Enlightment figure like Wollstonecraft and 20th century continental anti-rationalists like Deleuze and Foucault is the intensity of their convictions. That just can't be right.

Now I'm off to find out who this Blavatsky woman is.

[Gibsie]

1. Jürgen Habermas 79.0%
2. Erkki Niinivaara 77.0%
3. Ludwig Feuerbach 76.0%

Right

[loinburger]

Re: it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Now I'm off to find out who this Blavatsky woman is.

She was an occultist who, IIRC, was Hitler's personal astrologer.

[Rogan Josh]

lla 3 lähintä filosofia ja osumisprosentit:

1. Karl R. Popper 77.0%
2. John Locke 72.0%
3. Adam Smith 70.0%

Ajatuksiasi eniten vieroksuu Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 40.0%

Myös seuraavat 3 mielipidevaikuttajaa olivat lähinnä omaa vastaustasi:

1. Toimittaja Pertti Salovaara 74.0%
2. Kansanedustaja Ben Zyskowicz 73.0%
3. Jääkiekkovalmentaja Juhani Tamminen 71.0%

No idea what the last 3 are about....

[Stefu]

RJ: Well, Pertti Salovaara is a reporter, Ben Zyskowicz is a MP of (conservative) National Coalition party, representing the right flank of that party, and Juhani Tamminen an ice hockey coach.

[Rogan Josh]

Originally posted by Stefu
RJ: Well, Pertti Salovaara is a reporter, Ben Zyskowicz is a MP of (conservative) National Coalition party, representing the right flank of that party, and Juhani Tamminen an ice hockey coach.

What a mix!

Not sure I like being compared to a far right politician though...

[Wernazuma III]

Alla 3 lähintä filosofia ja osumisprosentit:

1. Bertrand Russell 73.0%
2. Michel Foucault 73.0%
3. Edward Westermarck 72.0%
Ajatuksiasi eniten vieroksuu Sören Kierkegaard 41.0%

Myös seuraavat 3 mielipidevaikuttajaa olivat lähinnä omaa vastaustasi:

1. Säveltäjä Einojuhani Rautavaara 76.0%
2. Kansantaiteilija, yht.maist. Simo Frangen 74.0%
3. Näyttelijä Mari Rantasila 73.0%



Can anyone tell me who the bottom 3 guys are?

[Stefu]

Einojuhani Rautavaara - composer
Simo Frangen - Funny guy, known from TV and radio
Mari Rantasila - an actress

RJ - I wouldn't go as far as to call Ben far right. Conservative, yes, but not far right.

[Logical Realist]

MY results

I would appreciate a translation as I don't speak Finnish...here it is:

VERTAILUN TULOS


Mielipiteitäsi lähimpänä oleva filosofi on Edward Westermarck (1862-1939).
[ Lisätietoja filosofista ]

Alla 3 lähintä filosofia ja osumisprosentit:

1. Edward Westermarck 77.0%
2. Kari Enqvist 77.0%
3. Jürgen Habermas 74.0%

Ajatuksiasi eniten vieroksuu Alasdair Macintyre 42.0%

Myös seuraavat 3 mielipidevaikuttajaa olivat lähinnä omaa vastaustasi:

1. Kirjailija Matti Mäkelä 79.0%
2. Kansantaiteilija, yht.maist. Simo Frangen 75.0%
3. Toimittaja Saska Snellman 72.0%

[Monk]

Once more - and I'd appreciate info on ANY one of these people


1. Gilles Deleuze 74.0%
2. Jacques Lacan 73.0%
3. Tuure Lehén 71.0%

Tuomas Akvinolainen 36.0%

Toimittaja Salla Tuomivaara 73.0%
Yrittäjä 'Mato' Valtonen 73.0%
Kirjailija Tommy Tabermann 70.0%

[Stefu]

Schmunk:

Salla Tuomivaara is a Green and animal rights activist.

Mato Valtonen was a member of the Leningrad Cowboys. He then tried his luck with those WAP gadgets.

Tommy Taberman writes erotic poetry.

Some group you got there, Schmunkster

[Monk]

Erotic poetry? LENINGRAD COWBOYS? Stefu, I am malcontent. I have reason to believe this entire thread was a setup, designed especially to undermine my very existence. I bet you have wet dreams about me trying once more so you can associate me with Tom of Finland. You are a maleficent, maglinoquent ragamuffin full of insouciance, a typical Finnish panjandrum.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I noticed that people are particularly bewildered by their resemblances to Continental critical and post-structural theorists like Deleuze, Lacan, and Foucault. K.I.S.S. of the Panopticon is a great site for a quickie introduction on these guys and others.

[RGBVideo]

Alla 3 lähintä filosofia ja osumisprosentit:

1. Machiavelli 80.0%
2. Tuure Lehén 71.0%
3. Thomas Malthus 69.0%
Ajatuksiasi eniten vieroksuu Alasdair Macintyre 49.0%

Myös seuraavat 3 mielipidevaikuttajaa olivat lähinnä omaa vastaustasi:

1. Kansantaiteilija, yht.maist. Simo Frangen 72.0%
2. Yrittäjä Aira Samulin 70.0%
3. MTK:n pj. Esa Härmälä 69.0%

Simo Frangen?! Aira Samulin? No. No! No! NOOOOOOOoooo!..

Ben Z. is Conservative in FINLAND. By US standards, he would be leftist democratic.
We just don't have really far right party here. Unless the IKL aka Lapuanliike