While idly browsing I stumbled across this cool little philosophy test.
http://www.philosophersnet.com/cgi-bin/check.cgi
For those interested, my score was 29%, apparently the second most optimal score achievable, and that was only because I misunderstood one of the questions. How do your beliefs measure up?
I goy a 7%.
Mazel tov! ;j
13% tension, but the two “conflicts” were ridiculous.
You agreed that:
It is always wrong to take another person’s life
And also that:
The second world war was a just war
Well yes, the second world war was just a war–wars always involve killing and often involve genocide. So?
You agreed that:
The environment should not be damaged unnecessarily in the pursuit of human ends
But disagreed that:
People should not journey by car if they can walk, cycle or take a train instead
Blah. This involves person choice vs. community choice. It is confusing the issues.
It’s weird that with two conflicts you registered a 13% tension because I only registered one conflict and got stuck with 29% tension. My answers which elicited this tension were to these two questions (paraphrased)
There is no such thing as truly great art as one’s aesthetic sensibilities are a matter of personal taste - AGREE
Michelangelo is one of the greatest artists of all time - AGREE.
Apparently, by answering AGREE to the first question I disqualified myself from making such a declarative pronouncement about Michelangelo. I wouldn’t have made it if the question was Michelangelo is OBJECTIVELY one of the greatest artists of all time. I just said he was because I considered the question to be subjective and I personally quite like Michelangelo.
I got a 0% on the philosophical tension-o-meter. Some of the questions were odd, however. For example, why were they interested in how you regarded the Second World War and the Nazis? (They asked “The second world war was a just war”, “Acts of genocide stand as a testament to man’s ability to do great evil”, and “The holocaust is an historical reality, taking place more or less as the history books report”. The last one left me bumfuzzled: Are they measuring philosophy or sanity?) The questions about atheism and religion made a bit more sense, as religion is a big part of some people’s philosophies, but what about the euthanasia questions?
And I don’t know if my philosophies are all that consistent, myself. I have a somewhat ambiguous relationship to government, vacillating between moderate Libertarian to nearly Anarcho-captialist depending on how much venality I’ve seen in the past few days. I am self-consistently atheistic, humanistic, and rational, however. I am also a very firm proponent of individual choice, settling my decisions on euthanasia and abortion, among other things.
All in all, not the best test I’ve ever taken.
Feh, what kind of philosophical test only has two possible answers to each question, “Agree” or “Disagree”?
I got 20%.
Yeah, not the greatest test ever. I got 29% but I can justify all three “contradictions” with little effort.
I got a tension quotient of 13 percent.
I thought that some of the questions were poorly worded. And of course the test operates on a limited philosophical range. Some people might not accept the philosophical idea that there is such a thing as a contradiction, in which case trying to point the contradictions in their philosophy means nothing to them.
I answered yes to there being no objective moral standards, and yes to acts of genocide being evil. My non-objective moral standards include the fact that genocide is evil. Got it? Good.
13%. Evidently I’m fairly consistantly ignorant.
7%. I got the environment/car idiocy wrong apparently. :rolleyes:
Interesting test, but invalid on almost every level.
13%.
It’s nice to be able to sleep at night. 
Uh, what?
Since I experience a low level of philosophical tension, I don’t lie awake brooding about this shit.
I got a 13% with what they consider two contradictions. Do I understand correctly that the smaller the number the fewer (or less severe) the conflict(s)?
As stated before, I have no problem justifying their idea of a conflict.
I also got 20%.
I got 27% and thought it was pretty dumb to think those were tensions for me because all the tensions were between where I had said in general I thought something was only subjectively judgeable, and then an example of MY subjective judgement. Uhuh. I’m sorry, but that isn’t a viable cause for tension. (Like George Kaplin’s Michelangelo example.)
Oh. I guess I sleep pretty well, too.
I don’t think this has anything to do with it, however.
27% The funny thing is it only found the inconsistancies created by bad questions, and not those I know are in my beliefs and which I am working to rectify.