Yea Kant.
1.Kant (100%)
I was not arguing the “importance” of ethics. So whatever you’re disagreeing with is tangential at best to what I said. All I said what thatI personally have not studied much ethics.
So does abstract=less important?
I consider ethics a more important study because it provides a consistent guideline to the more concrete situations that humans encounter in their daily lives. Likewise, I feel that ethics would be the way to best match people to a given philosophy and an excellent starting point to begin their studies and then the other ideas can be added into the mix.
All right, your point about ethics as a starting point for the rest of philosophy is relevant. In fact, on that hunch I went looking around the site for more philosophy but found only dog breeds & stuff. :rolleyes: My criticism had to do with the expectation that philosophy as a whole would be the subject of the quiz, then finding that it covered only one branch of philosophy, leaving out the rest.
I matched with Aristotle . Huh?Plato is a much closer match.
well I know little to nothing about philosophy (unless it’s political), but the summery that they provided for Sartre sounds about right for what I believe. But Kant was a little closer.
Sartre (100%) Click here for info
Kant (93%) Click here for info
Mill (79%) Click here for info
Bentham (78%) Click here for info
Prescriptivism (65%) Click here for info
Noddings (59%) Click here for info
Epicureans (58%) Click here for info
Augustine (44%) Click here for info
Aquinas (42%) Click here for info
Spinoza (38%) Click here for info
and, being a wicca, didn’t expect Augustine or Aquinas to be so high (i expected them to be 19 and 20). But reading it over, if you take out the things about Jesus it sounds like me alot.
And I also think that it was more about morality then philosphy, becuse there were parts of philosophy left out.
Kant (100%)
Sartre (93%)
Mill (79%)
Rand (73%)
Prescriptivism (56%)
Aquinas (53%)
Bentham (51%)
Spinoza (48%)
Stoics (47%)
Epicureans (44%)
Cynics (5%)
i find the last one amusing, as my family tells me i’m extremely cynical. hmm…
My results are kinda odd, since I agreed more with Mill than with Kant when I read both as an undergrad, and I really dig Plato. Anyway, my results:
Kant (100%)
Mill (92%)
Epicureans (91%)
Aquinas (83%)
Aristotle (80%)
Sartre (79%)
Rand (76%)
Spinoza (64%)
Bentham (63%)
Prescriptivism (62%)
Stoics (60%)
Noddings (46%)
Ockham (44%)
Augustine (43%)
Nietzsche (37%)
Hume (34%)
Plato (34%)
Hobbes (23%)
Cynics (5%)
Aristotle (100%)
Rand (97%)
Aquinas (78%)
Hobbes (78%)
Epicureans (76%)
Sartre (76%)
Mill (73%)
Hume (65%)
Stoics (63%)
Bentham (55%)
Nietzsche (54%)
Spinoza (52%)
Kant (49%)o
Noddings (44%)
Plato (40%)
Prescriptivism (39%)
Augustine (33%)
Cynics (31%)
Ockham (30%)
Sweet Baby Jesus, it made me an Objectivist. How utterly wrong.
Hmm… and after all the things I’ve heard about him, I was hoping not to have to read Kant, too.
Kant (100%)
Augustine (92%)
Mill (87%)
Sartre (86%)
Ockham (76%)
Bentham (73%)
Rand (73%)
Spinoza (66%)
Aquinas (63%)
Prescriptivism (56%)
Plato (53%)
Epicureans (48%)
Aristotle (47%)
Hume (43%)
Stoics (40%)
Nietzsche (37%)
Noddings (36%)
Cynics (30%)
Hobbes (13%)
Well here are my results
Sartre (100%)
Noddings (85%)
Spinoza (85%)
Aquinas (77%)
Kant (70%)
Augustine (62%)
Aristotle (60%)
Nietzsche (58%)
Mill (57%)
Epicureans (56%)
Bentham (55%)
Ockham (55%)
Hume (50%)
Stoics (47%)
Prescriptivism (36%)
Plato (32%)
Hobbes (20%)
Cynics (18%)
Rand (18%)
I didn’t know I could think like anyone that smart
Yep Same here. Considering my beleifs I’m not too suprised. Second was St.Augestine
BTW Ukulele you woundn’t happen to be from “da Kine” eh?
*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo *
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? **
{Funaki} SO DA NE!!! {/Funaki}
I totally agree. If the eastern philosophers were included definitely Kung Fu Zhu, Shinran Shonin and Lao Tzu would have been on my list.
Bentham (100%) Click here for info
Mill (97%) Click here for info
Spinoza (96%) Click here for info
Aquinas (92%) Click here for info
Aristotle (87%) Click here for info
Sartre (87%) Click here for info
Kant (83%) Click here for info
Noddings (83%) Click here for info
Epicureans (81%) Click here for info
Stoics (65%) Click here for info
Nietzsche (64%) Click here for info
Hume (51%) Click here for info
Prescriptivism (49%) Click here for info
Rand (48%) Click here for info
Ockham (47%) Click here for info
Augustine (46%) Click here for info
Cynics (43%) Click here for info
Hobbes (42%) Click here for info
Plato (29%) Click here for info
Hmmm. I too wish that test had more than just Western philosophers on it. Oh well.
Nietzsche (100%)
Sartre (93%)
Hobbes (88%)
Noddings (85%)
Cynics (80%)
Hume (78%)
Epicureans (72%)
Stoics (72%)
Bentham (68%)
Mill (68%)
Nietzsche seems like a pretty accurate match for me.
Rand (100%)
Nietzsche (88%)
Sartre (85%)
Hobbes (76%)
Hume (75%)
Aristotle (67%)
Kant (62%)
Epicureans (60%)
Mill (56%)
Spinoza (54%)
Stoics (53%)
Aquinas (47%)
Cynics (47%)
Prescriptivism (41%)
Plato (40%)
Bentham (39%)
Ockham (38%)
Noddings (35%)
Augustine (22%)
Given such a large percentage of so many, I guess I’m just a confused hypocrite. Always knew I agreed with Nietzsche, thought it would be higher than 88%.
Atreyu
April 9, 2001, 5:54pm
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Another pissant checking in…
Kant (100%) Click here for info
Rand (100%) Click here for info
Mill (89%) Click here for info
Sartre (85%) Click here for info
Aristotle (83%) Click here for info
Aquinas (80%) Click here for info
Bentham (68%) Click here for info
Nietzsche (68%) Click here for info
Epicureans (67%) Click here for info
Prescriptivism (61%) Click here for info
Stoics (61%) Click here for info
Hume (58%) Click here for info
Ockham (58%) Click here for info
Spinoza (56%) Click here for info
Cynics (53%) Click here for info
Augustine (46%) Click here for info
Noddings (43%) Click here for info
Hobbes (40%) Click here for info
Plato (40%) Click here for info
Not terribly familiar with Kant. Will have to consider reading a little about him. Any recommendations for a good intro book to Kant?
