On a mailing loop that I’m a member of, one of the members posted a link to a site that offers a quiz to match people up to philosophers that most closely match the way they think. I thought I’d post it here to see what philosophies Dopers subscribe to. Anyway, the link is http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/ …surf on over and post what you get!!
Anyway, mine were:
Rand (100%)
Aristotle (81%)
Aquinas (64%)
Nietzsche (61%)
Mill (60%)
Stoics (58%)
Hume (58%)
Plato (56%)
Sartre (56%)
Epicureans (55%)
Cynics (50%)
Hobbes (50%)
Kant (48%)
Augustine (42%)
Bentham (40%)
Spinoza (39%)
Ockham (36%)
Prescriptivism (35%)
Noddings (10%)
I’m a real pissant, apparently…
Kant (100%)
Aquinas (96%)
Aristotle (87%)
Mill (85%)
Spinoza (80%)
Bentham (68%)
Prescriptivism (67%)
Rand (62%)
Sartre (61%)
Nietzsche (57%)
Stoics (55%)
Epicureans (51%)
Ockham (51%)
Hume (49%)
Noddings (43%)
Augustine (38%)
Plato (37%)
Cynics (17%)
Hobbes (17%)
Interesting. I’ll have a think about that. While I’m drinking.
Feynn
April 6, 2001, 8:18am
3
Go figure, the Agnostic finds himself in agreement with Aquinas. Note #20
Aquinas (100%)
Sartre (92%)
Spinoza (88%)
Mill (80%)
Kant (79%)
Augustine (77%)
Aristotle (73%)
Noddings (69%)
Ockham (68%)
Bentham (66%)
Stoics (66%)
Epicureans (55%)
Nietzsche (55%)
Plato (50%)
Rand (46%)
Hume (42%)
Prescriptivism (41%)
Cynics (34%)
Hobbes (28%)
Jack Chick (0%)
Epicurian 100%
Yup, I’m all about the pleasure.
Mill (85%)
I would appear to be the first Spinozist here. But I think they should replace the choice “doesn’t matter/dislike all answer choices” with “I refuse to answer on the grounds that this question is a load of crap”.
Spinoza (100%) Click here for info
Cynics (98%) Click here for info
Aquinas (90%) Click here for info
Bentham (89%) Click here for info
Epicureans (81%) Click here for info
Stoics (79%) Click here for info
Aristotle (72%) Click here for info
Mill (65%) Click here for info
Noddings (62%) Click here for info
Hobbes (60%) Click here for info
Augustine (59%) Click here for info
Rand (59%) Click here for info
Sartre (57%) Click here for info
Kant (50%) Click here for info
Ockham (49%) Click here for info
Plato (47%) Click here for info
Nietzsche (46%) Click here for info
Prescriptivism (39%) Click here for info
Hume (38%) Click here for info
Another Spinozian, I reckon.
Spinoza (100%)
Nietzsche (96%)
Aquinas (86%)
Cynics (84%)
Stoics (84%)
Rand (83%)
Aristotle (81%)
Noddings (72%)
Hume (71%)
Augustine (70%)
Epicureans (66%)
Sartre (61%)
Mill (59%)
Hobbes (58%)
Kant (56%)
Bentham (54%)
Ockham (51%)
Plato (33%)
Prescriptivism (20%)
Apparently I’m all about the pleasure too … I’m not sure that’s a good thing, but I’m in good company (smiles at tater )
Epicureans (100%)
Aristotle (91%)
Mill (89%)
Spinoza (86%)
Bentham (84%)
Noddings (83%)
Kant (81%)
Aquinas (79%)
Nietzsche (79%)
Sartre (77%)
Rand (75%)
Prescriptivism (63%)
Hobbes (60%)
Stoics (58%)
Hume (50%)
Ockham (50%)
Cynics (42%)
Augustine (21%)
Plato (18%)
dpr
April 6, 2001, 12:48pm
9
Well I don’t actually agree with a lot of it, but in the ineterests of fairness I’ll post my results:
Sartre (100%)
Nietzsche (97%)
Spinoza (87%)
Epicureans (86%)
Stoics (85%)
Noddings (77%)
Kant (73%)
Hume (72%)
Aquinas (69%)
Bentham (68%)
Hobbes (64%)
Mill (59%)
Aristotle (54%)
Cynics (51%)
Augustine (49%)
Ockham (45%)
Plato (40%)
Prescriptivism (38%)
Rand (26%)
Sartre (100%)
Kant (84%)
Mill (84%)
Epicureans (74%)
Bentham (72%)
Nietzsche (59%)
Spinoza (59%)
Hume (58%)
Aquinas (55%)
Everything else was below 50%. FWIW, and from what I know of philosophy, I would have thought Nietzsche would be higher and Mill lower, but who am I to argue with a computer program?
Kant (100%)
Sartre (85%)
Stoics (81%)
My guess upfront was Sartre. After reading the highlights of both, I stick to that choice. How it hooked me up with Kant for 100% is beyond me.
Damhna
April 6, 2001, 1:16pm
12
Sartre (100%)
Spinoza (96%)
Nietzsche (82%)
Kant (68%)
Hume (66%)
Stoics (60%)
Aquinas (59%)
Noddings (57%)
Augustine (55%)
Ockham (52%)
Epicureans (49%)
Bentham (48%)
Mill (46%)
Prescriptivism (46%)
Hobbes (42%)
Aristotle (36%)
Cynics (32%)
Plato (23%)
Rand (20%)
Sartre?
No seriously , what are you going to do?
I suppose I’m very rarely stable…
Kant (100%)
Prescriptivism (91%)
Mill (88%)
Plato (69%)
Rand (67%)
Bentham (65%)
Aquinas (60%)
Augustine (50%)
Ockham (49%)
Epicureans (43%)
Aristotle (41%)
I’ll only post the top 10:
Bentham (100%)
Mill (91%)
Epicureans (74%)
Aquinas (72%)
Aristotle (70%)
Kant (68%)
Spinoza (64%)
Sartre (56%)
Cynics (52%)
Noddings (51%)
I have no idea who Bentham is. I’m off to find out.
Well, don’t lose your head on the way, Bun!
100% Aquinas, here.
Well, at least I can outconsume Hegel. That’s something to be proud of.
Hume (100%)
Stoics (98%)
Aristotle (92%)
Aquinas (86%)
Kant (83%)
Nietzsche (82%)
Ockham (79%)
Sartre (76%)
Mill (75%)
Augustine (70%)
Plato (62%)
Spinoza (60%)
Rand (59%)
Cynics (55%)
Epicureans (55%)
Hobbes (55%)
Noddings (55%)
Prescriptivism (53%)
Bentham (44%)
Before I started, my guess had been Zhuang Zhi. Still is. Most of my responses were “doesn’t matter/don’t like the choices.”
Anyway, isn’t this is the same site that told me the religion for me would be Sikhism?
–sublight.
Nietzsche (100%)
Hume (82%)
Epicureans (73%)
Aristotle (73%)
Stoics (71%)
Not sure what this means, but those questions really made me think!
Here’s my results, but I think they are wrong.
Epicureans (100%)
Aquinas (81%)
Spinoza (81%)
Mill (73%)
Aristotle (65%)
Nietzsche (65%)
Augustine (64%)
Sartre (63%)
Hobbes (56%)
Bentham (54%)
Rand (48%)
Ockham (46%)
Plato (43%)
Stoics (40%)
Cynics (38%)
Noddings (37%)
Kant (36%)
Hume (31%)
Prescriptivism (30%)
Augustine (100%)
Spinoza (97%)
Aquinas (89%)
Kant (64%)
Mill (61%)
Bentham (61%)
Nietzsche (58%)
Sartre (58%)
Epicureans (56%)
I seem to be the first Augustinian here. Just goes to show the lasting impact of a Catholic upbringing, I suppose . . .
But the setup sucks as a whole, because it ignored all non-Western philosophers. My real philosophy draws more from Eastern sources. Since this filters everything through a European sieve, the results come out distorted.
Really, now. I might have expected this cultural chauvinism to be inevitable back in the 1950s (had computers been enabled for such a task back then), but to pretend that the world (especially the online world) is not a global village is just plain false. It is a fact that plenty of Asians and other non-Westerners are likely to log in. Can you treat their civilizations & philosophical contributions as nonexistent and still be intellectually honest? I mean, who gives a fuck about Sartre or Ayn Rand when Lao Tze, Shankara, the Dalai Lama, and al-Ghazzali have a lot more to say to you?
