Cyan
Jul 14 2003, 10:33 PM
Quizzes seem to be very popular at AD this week. Here is another interesting one:
Ethical Philosophy Selector.
My results:
1. Kant (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (88%)
3. John Stuart Mill (84%)
4. Stoics (84%)
5. Ayn Rand (73%)
Hugo
Jul 14 2003, 11:05 PM
My results:
1. Thomas Hobbes (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (99%)
3. Epicureans (98%)
4. John Stuart Mill (97%)
5. Kant (89%)
6. Ayn Rand (88%)
7. David Hume (87%)
8. Nietzsche (84%)
9. Cynics (80%)
10. Stoics (79%)
11. Jeremy Bentham (70%)
12. Prescriptivism (59%)
13. Nel Noddings (58%)
14. Aristotle (51%)
15. Aquinas (48%)
16. Spinoza (48%)
17. Ockham (38%)
18. Plato (32%)
19. St. Augustine (19%)
Was anyone else the 1,000,000th visitor?
Dingo
Jul 14 2003, 11:14 PM
Like most tests of this general type it is not very well constructed. They should have allowed multiple answers to individual questions where you could weight each one and I thought many of the questions and answers were badly phrased. Nevertheless I took it and here's how I came out.
1. John Stuart Mill (100%) Click here for info
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (90%) Click here for info
3. Epicureans (82%) Click here for info
4. Kant (79%) Click here for info
5. Aquinas (76%) Click here for info
6. Nel Noddings (65%) Click here for info
7. Jeremy Bentham (64%) Click here for info
8. Ayn Rand (61%) Click here for info
9. Spinoza (58%) Click here for info
10. St. Augustine (54%) Click here for info
11. Aristotle (53%) Click here for info
12. Plato (51%) Click here for info
13. Prescriptivism (49%) Click here for info
14. Stoics (45%) Click here for info
15. Ockham (42%) Click here for info
16. David Hume (33%) Click here for info
17. Thomas Hobbes (33%) Click here for info
18. Nietzsche (31%) Click here for info
19. Cynics (24%) Click here for info
I'm baffled by some of the scores. David Hume is one of the philosophers I admire the most. I'll have to check out Prescriptivism. I never heard of it.
Eeyore
Jul 14 2003, 11:32 PM
1. Aquinas (100%) Click here for info
2. Aristotle (75%) Click here for info
3. Plato (75%) Click here for info
4. Spinoza (63%) Click here for info
5. St. Augustine (62%) Click here for info
6. Stoics (57%) Click here for info
7. John Stuart Mill (54%) Click here for info
8. Jeremy Bentham (52%) Click here for info
9. Nel Noddings (52%) Click here for info
10. Jean-Paul Sartre (46%) Click here for info
11. David Hume (45%) Click here for info
12. Ayn Rand (43%) Click here for info
13. Nietzsche (41%) Click here for info
14. Epicureans (37%) Click here for info
15. Cynics (35%) Click here for info
16. Thomas Hobbes (33%) Click here for info
17. Ockham (27%) Click here for info
18. Kant (26%) Click here for info
19. Prescriptivism (0%) Click here for info
Seems markedly opposed to the previous results. I guess I'll have to familiarize myslef more with Aquinas.
Gray Seal
Jul 14 2003, 11:45 PM
1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. Kant (89%)
3. Ayn Rand (88%)
4. Jeremy Bentham (80%)
5. John Stuart Mill (78%)
6. Epicureans (64%)
7. Prescriptivism (55%)
8. Aquinas (48%)
9. Aristotle (47%)
10. Spinoza (47%)
11. Stoics (44%)
12. Nietzsche (39%)
13. St. Augustine (39%)
14. David Hume (32%)
15. Ockham (30%)
16. Cynics (26%)
17. Thomas Hobbes (23%)
18. Nel Noddings (21%)
19. Plato (21%)
Izdaari
Jul 15 2003, 12:18 AM
Doesn't seem terribly well constructed to me either, and I couldn't find an answer that satisfied me on many of the questions. Fun anyway, and somewhat enlightening.
1. Epicureans (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (97%)
3. Jeremy Bentham (94%)
4. Aristotle (65%)
5. Kant (65%)
6. Aquinas (62%)
7. Prescriptivism (57%)
8. Spinoza (57%)
9. Ayn Rand (42%)
10. Jean-Paul Sartre (41%) C
11. St. Augustine (40%)
12. Ockham (35%)
13. Thomas Hobbes (33%)
14. Plato (32%)
15. Cynics (30%)
16. Nel Noddings (18%)
17. Stoics (15%)
18. David Hume (13%)
19. Nietzsche (13%)
Platypus
Jul 15 2003, 12:25 AM
Mill's not a surprise at all, but it's a little weird to me that Epicureans and Rand ranked closer than Ockham and Hume. Then again, my disgust with Rand and my admiration for Ockham in both cases has more to do with their methods than with their conclusions. At least that hypocritical old bastard Augustine was near the bottom.
1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (88%)
3. Jeremy Bentham (87%)
4. Kant (74%)
5. Epicureans (71%)
6. Prescriptivism (66%)
7. Ayn Rand (60%)
8. Thomas Hobbes (47%)
9. Aquinas (47%)
10. Spinoza (45%)
11. Ockham (44%)
12. Cynics (44%)
13. Aristotle (39%)
14. David Hume (36%)
15. St. Augustine (35%)
16. Nietzsche (34%)
17. Plato (26%)
18. Nel Noddings (24%)
19. Stoics (17%)
Cyan
Jul 15 2003, 01:19 AM
No, it's definitely not the model of accuracy. The nice thing about tests like these is the information look-up that happens afterwards.
Wertz
Jul 15 2003, 06:48 AM
I didn't particularly like the questions as I was answering them, but the results turned out to be pretty unsurprising, to me:
1. Nietzsche (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (87%)
3. David Hume (83%)
4. Ayn Rand (80%)
5. Spinoza (76%)
6. Stoics (76%)
7. Kant (69%)
8. St. Augustine (54%)
9. Thomas Hobbes (54%)
10. Aristotle (52%)
11. Epicureans (52%)
12. Ockham (52%)
13. Aquinas (41%)
14. Cynics (40%)
15. Plato (39%)
16. Nel Noddings (37%)
17. Prescriptivism (34%)
18. John Stuart Mill (29%)
19. Jeremy Bentham (21%)
But no Heidegger??
Paladin Elspeth
Jul 15 2003, 07:05 AM
Never having taken philosophy, I cannot verify the accuracy of this test. But it looks like a whole lot of reading.
1. Aquinas (100%) Click here for info
2. Kant (93%) Click here for info
3. St. Augustine (92%) Click here for info
4. Spinoza (91%) Click here for info
5. Ockham (90%) Click here for info
6. John Stuart Mill (83%) Click here for info
7. Jeremy Bentham (70%) Click here for info
8. Epicureans (62%) Click here for info
9. Aristotle (57%) Click here for info
10. Jean-Paul Sartre (54%) Click here for info
11. Prescriptivism (44%) Click here for info
12. Cynics (37%) Click here for info
13. Ayn Rand (36%) Click here for info
14. Nel Noddings (36%) Click here for info
15. Nietzsche (33%) Click here for info
16. Plato (29%) Click here for info
17. Stoics (29%) Click here for info
18. David Hume (16%) Click here for info
19. Thomas Hobbes (4%)
(Edited--took it again, rethought a few answers--oh well, Hobbes is still at the bottom, where's Calvin?)
Curmudgeon
Jul 15 2003, 07:06 AM
1. Kant (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (93%)
3. Epicureans (92%)
4. Ayn Rand (83%)
5. Aristotle (78%)
6. Spinoza (74%)
7. Prescriptivism (71%)
8. Stoics (65%)
9. Aquinas (63%)
10. Jean-Paul Sartre (61%)
11. Jeremy Bentham (60%)
12. Nietzsche (57%)
13. Ockham (49%)
14. David Hume (41%)
15. Nel Noddings (39%)
16. Thomas Hobbes (39%)
17. Cynics (30%)
18. St. Augustine (22%)
19. Plato (14%)
An interesting test. It shows a definite shift from where I rated myself in Philosophy class. (And brings back the strange memory of how the class rated me.)
nileriver
Jul 15 2003, 07:32 AM
1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Jeremy Bentham (95%)
3. Aquinas (94%)
4. Aristotle (94%)
5. Epicureans (87%)
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (79%)
7. Nel Noddings (64%)
8. Spinoza (62%)
9. Kant (55%)
10. Ayn Rand (54%)
11. St. Augustine (49%)
12. Plato (40%)
13. Prescriptivism (36%)
14. Ockham (34%)
15. Nietzsche (33%)
16. Stoics (30%)
17. Cynics (29%)
18. Thomas Hobbes (29%)
19. David Hume (19%)
ok then

who are alot of those people
Victoria Silverwolf
Jul 15 2003, 07:39 AM
Without listing everything, I'll note that I got 100% with John Stuart Mill. Seems like a sensible guy. Maximize pleasure (with the important proviso that liberty is a pleasure.) Works for me.
AuthorMusician
Jul 15 2003, 10:06 AM
Pet peeve:
Ayn Rand was not a philosopher. She was a novelist.
That being said, without taking the quiz, give me Schopenhauer! What a wiseguy.
Descarte and Sartre were pretty entertaining, too.
Julian
Jul 15 2003, 10:26 AM
I got:
1. Aquinas (100%)
2. Spinoza (98%)
3. Kant (89%)
4. Nel Noddings (82%)
5. John Stuart Mill (78%)
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (77%)
7. Jeremy Bentham (71%)
8. Stoics (69%)
9. Prescriptivism (67%)
10. Aristotle (65%)
11. St. Augustine (61%)
12. Epicureans (57%)
13. Ayn Rand (56%)
14. Nietzsche (55%)
16. Cynics (52%)
17. Thomas Hobbes (39%)
18. Plato (33%)
19. David Hume (30%)
which surprised me a little as I'm an atheist, and Aquinas puts God fairly centrally, but I infinitely prefer him to Augustine.
But ultimately I think I share the view of philosophy and philosophers of the Philosophy department of the University of Woolloomaloo. "This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land..." etc.
Amlord
Jul 15 2003, 02:57 PM
QUOTE
1. Aquinas (100%) Click here for info
2. Jeremy Bentham (95%) Click here for info
3. John Stuart Mill (95%) Click here for info
4. Aristotle (93%) Click here for info
5. Ayn Rand (87%) Click here for info
6. Plato (87%) Click here for info
7. Spinoza (82%) Click here for info
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (81%) Click here for info
9. St. Augustine (78%) Click here for info
10. Kant (75%) Click here for info
11. Prescriptivism (60%) Click here for info
12. Epicureans (56%) Click here for info
13. Stoics (56%) Click here for info
14. David Hume (53%) Click here for info
15. Nietzsche (42%) Click here for info
16. Ockham (35%) Click here for info
17. Cynics (28%) Click here for info
18. Nel Noddings (28%) Click here for info
19. Thomas Hobbes (28%) Click here for info
QUOTE
Aquinas
All life has a purpose
Meeting this purpose allows one to be happy.
Happiness is to be found in the love of God.
God's grace providing entrance into heaven creates the highest form of human happiness.
Short of heaven, a person can achieve a more limited form of happiness through a life of virtue and friendship.
Morality is not determined by the arbitrary will of God.
Morality is derived from human nature and the activities that are objectively suited to it.
The difference between right and wrong can be appreciated through the use of reason and reflection.
Religious reflection may supplement the use of reason and reflection to determine right from wrong.
Societies must enact laws to ensure the correct application of moral reasoning.
Human nature is good because God made it good.
Wertz
Jul 15 2003, 03:48 PM
Very well, then:
QUOTE
Nietzsche
We have free will.
There is no God.
Social conformity should not hold us back.
The interests of others should not restrain us.
We should be passionate beings.
Strength and passion are the highest qualities in a person.
Conventional morality is a crutch to man.
Eeyore
Jul 15 2003, 03:58 PM
Amlord we reside in the same philosophical realm. Odd isn't it?
quarkhead
Jul 15 2003, 04:11 PM
I ended up with Spinoza on top...
Hugo
Jul 15 2003, 04:36 PM
Mill from "On Liberty":
Though society is not founded on a contract, and though no good purpose is answered by inventing a contract in order to deduce social obligations from it, every one who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit, and the fact of living in society renders it indispensable that each should be bound to observe a certain line of conduct towards the rest. This conduct consists first, in not injuring the interests of one another; or rather certain interests, which, either by express legal provision or by tacit understanding, ought to be considered as rights; and secondly, in each person's bearing his share (to be fixed on some equitable principle) of the labours and sacrifices incurred for defending the society or its members from injury and molestation. These conditions society is justified in enforcing at all costs to those who endeavour to withhold fulfilment. Nor is this all that society may do. The acts of an individual may be hurtful to others, or wanting in due consideration for their welfare, without going the length of violating any of their constituted rights. The offender may then be justly punished by opinion, though not by law. As soon as any part of a person's conduct affects prejudicially the interests of others, society has jurisdiction over it, and the question whether the general welfare will or will not be promoted by interfering with it, becomes open to discussion. But there is no room for entertaining any such question when a person's conduct affects the interests of no persons besides himself, or needs not affect them unless they like (all the persons concerned being of full age, and the ordinary amount of understanding). In all such cases there should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences.
Ok, he was only third on my list. Hobbes is dull reading and Sartre was a communist.
Mrs. Pigpen
Jul 15 2003, 04:42 PM
1. Jeremy Bentham (100%) Click here for info
2. John Stuart Mill (100%) Click here for info
3. Cynics (95%) Click here for info
4. Aquinas (92%) Click here for info
5. Ayn Rand (92%) Click here for info
6. Aristotle (86%) Click here for info
7. Jean-Paul Sartre (86%) Click here for info
8. Epicureans (81%) Click here for info
9. St. Augustine (80%) Click here for info
10. Thomas Hobbes (72%) Click here for info
11. Plato (71%) Click here for info
12. Spinoza (71%) Click here for info
13. Nietzsche (60%) Click here for info
nileriver
Jul 15 2003, 05:01 PM
i dont agree very much with the people on that list of mine, i did not click on alot of the questions either. I dont think that test workd very well for me, it was fun though.
Nu Marx
Jul 15 2003, 05:07 PM
The questions were awful; I felt like I was taking the ACT.
1. Kant (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (70%)
3. Stoics (67%)
4. Ayn Rand (63%)
5. St. Augustine (62%)
6. Spinoza (56%)
7. Jeremy Bentham (56%)
8. Nietzsche (55%)
9. Cynics (52%)
10. David Hume (52%)
11. Ockham (49%)
12. John Stuart Mill (47%)
13. Aquinas (47%)
14. Prescriptivism (45%)
15. Nel Noddings (41%)
16. Plato (35%)
17. Aristotle (32%)
18. Epicureans (12%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (12%)
turnea
Jul 15 2003, 09:31 PM
QUOTE
1. Kant (100%) Click here for info
2. John Stuart Mill (86%) Click here for info
3. Prescriptivism (76%) Click here for info
4. Jeremy Bentham (65%) Click here for info
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (60%) Click here for info
6. Ayn Rand (57%) Click here for info
7. Aquinas (51%) Click here for info
8. Spinoza (50%) Click here for info
9. Epicureans (46%) Click here for info
10. Stoics (44%) Click here for info
11. St. Augustine (42%) Click here for info
12. Aristotle (36%) Click here for info
QUOTE
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
* We can make a prior judgments; the negation of such judgments would a logical absurdity because a priori knowledge is known without sensory data.
* We combine a priori and a posteriori knowledge to
* We have freedom
* God is not essential for his moral argumentation
* The objective facts about the human knowledge leads to Kant's morality
* We must act ought of a sense of duty in order to be moral
* Moral action does not come out of following inclinations
* Moral standards must be followed without qualification
* We must always act so that the means of our actions could be a universal law
* We must always treat people as ends not means
Interesting, and pretty close with Kant. Not to mention fun

.
Thomas
Jul 15 2003, 10:11 PM
1. Aristotle (100%) Click here for info
2. Aquinas (97%) Click here for info
3. Ayn Rand (84%) Click here for info
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (74%) Click here for info
5. Nietzsche (74%) Click here for info
6. David Hume (73%) Click here for info
7. Spinoza (66%) Click here for info
8. Plato (65%) Click here for info
9. Jeremy Bentham (63%) Click here for info
10. John Stuart Mill (61%) Click here for info
11. Epicureans (60%) Click here for info
12. Stoics (58%) Click here for info
13. St. Augustine (54%) Click here for info
14. Cynics (43%) Click here for info
15. Thomas Hobbes (43%) Click here for info
16. Ockham (40%) Click here for info
17. Kant (40%) Click here for info
18. Prescriptivism (40%) Click here for info
19. Nel Noddings (30%) Click here for info
I expected that, I have always been a fan of Aristotle and Aquinas was always a rational Christian which I concur with.
AuthorMusician
Jul 17 2003, 12:23 PM
Finally got around to doing the quiz.
Jean-Paul Sartre 100% (yes!)
Rand was second to last
Prescriptivism was dead last
Tells me three things: 1) Moral/ethical decisions are constantly being made in chaotic mixes of emotions, logic, interests, and outcomes--the thread of one moves into the threads of future others. 2) I still can't stand Rand. 3) No future in preaching.
kmsouthern
Jul 18 2003, 09:53 AM
My results:
1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%) Click here for info
2. Nel Noddings (85%) Click here for info
3. Kant (80%) Click here for info
4. Aquinas (79%) Click here for info
5. Jeremy Bentham (76%) Click here for info
Most of the answers were like choosing a lesser of the evils, though...but all in all, looks about right (though I think Spinoza at 72% should be higher than Aquinas).
Fun test
Billy Jean
Jul 18 2003, 01:49 PM
1. St. Augustine (100%)
2. Spinoza (95%)
3. Aquinas (94%)
4. Ockham (79%)
5. Kant (73%)
6. Jeremy Bentham (72%)
7. Aristotle (60%)
8. Epicureans (57%)
9. John Stuart Mill (57%)
10. Jean-Paul Sartre (55%)
11. Nietzsche (53%)
12. Ayn Rand (50%)
13. Stoics (47%)
14. Cynics (47%)
15. Prescriptivism (41%)
16. Nel Noddings (39%)
17. David Hume (27%)
18. Plato (23%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (6%)
Very interesting.... Very interesting indeed!

I'm kinda stunned...
ConservPat
Jul 18 2003, 02:23 PM
1.100% Ayn Rand, who'd a thunk it?
CP
DreamPipEr
Jan 10 2004, 02:55 AM
Since I love quizzes I thought I would revive this one. I must say I'm surprised by my 100% Ayn Rand. Perhaps I am more influenced by my Objectivist friends than I thought...?
1. Ayn Rand (100%) Click here for info
2. Epicureans (94%) Click here for info
3. Kant (92%) Click here for info
4. John Stuart Mill (92%) Click here for info
5. Aquinas (75%) Click here for info
6. Nietzsche (72%) Click here for info
7. Jeremy Bentham (71%) Click here for info
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (69%) Click here for info
9. Aristotle (68%) Click here for info
10. Ockham (67%) Click here for info
11. Cynics (66%) Click here for info
12. Stoics (62%) Click here for info
13. Prescriptivism (54%) Click here for info
14. David Hume (50%) Click here for info
15. Spinoza (49%) Click here for info
16. Thomas Hobbes (47%) Click here for info
edit to add:
QUOTE
AuthorMusician Posted: Jul 15 2003, 05:06 AM
Pet peeve:
Ayn Rand was not a philosopher. She was a novelist.
Actually Ayn Rand was a Philosopher and a Novelist. She is the author of Objectivism which is a philosophy. See
The Ayn Rand Institute and for a short summary of what Objectivism is see
Introducing Objectivism.
Izdaari
Jan 10 2004, 06:10 AM
I took it again, taking a little more care thinking about the questions and answers:
1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Epicureans (90%)
3. Jeremy Bentham (88%)
4. Aristotle (66%)
5. Kant (66%)
6. Aquinas (63%)
7. Ayn Rand (63%)
8. Spinoza (62%)
9. Prescriptivism (58%)
10. Cynics (50%)
11. Thomas Hobbes (43%)
12. Jean-Paul Sartre (41%)
13. St. Augustine (40%)
14. Stoics (40%)
15. Plato (36%)
16. David Hume (33%)
17. Nietzsche (33%)
18. Ockham (25%)
19. Nel Noddings (18%)
I'm happier with this, it seems to reflect my beliefs better.
Christopher
Jan 10 2004, 07:04 AM
Your Results:
1. Nietzsche (100%) Click here for info
2. Ayn Rand (96%) Click here for info
3. Kant (90%) Click here for info
4. Spinoza (87%) Click here for info
5. Stoics (86%) Click here for info
6. Aristotle (81%) Click here for info
7. David Hume (80%) Click here for info
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (74%) Click here for info
9. Aquinas (71%) Click here for info
10. Cynics (67%) Click here for info
11. John Stuart Mill (66%) Click here for info
12. Epicureans (56%) Click here for info
13. Thomas Hobbes (55%) Click here for info
14. Ockham (47%) Click here for info
15. Nel Noddings (47%) Click here for info
16. Jeremy Bentham (44%) Click here for info
17. Prescriptivism (43%) Click here for info
18. St. Augustine (42%) Click here for info
19. Plato (20%) Click here for info
Nietzsche Ayn Rand and KANT. No wonder I get headaches
Wertz
Jan 10 2004, 07:24 AM
Heh - I tried it again as well - just to see if anything had changed. Looks like I've just got more entrenched in my ethical outlook (if the top three are anything to go by, anyway). My original:
QUOTE(Wertz @ Jul 15 2003, 01:48 AM)
1. Nietzsche (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (87%)
3. David Hume (83%)
4. Ayn Rand (80%)
5. Spinoza (76%)
6. Stoics (76%)
7. Kant (69%)
8. St. Augustine (54%)
9. Thomas Hobbes (54%)
10. Aristotle (52%)
11. Epicureans (52%)
12. Ockham (52%)
13. Aquinas (41%)
14. Cynics (40%)
15. Plato (39%)
16. Nel Noddings (37%)
17. Prescriptivism (34%)
18. John Stuart Mill (29%)
19. Jeremy Bentham (21%)
My current
1. Nietzsche (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (99%)
3. David Hume (98%)
4. Stoics (95%)
5. Kant (77%)
6. Thomas Hobbes (75%)
7. Ayn Rand (73%)
8. Cynics (69%)
9. Spinoza (65%)
10. Epicureans (57%)
11. Aquinas (53%)
12. Nel Noddings (52%)
13. Aristotle (47%)
14. John Stuart Mill (47%)
15. Jeremy Bentham (46%)
16. St. Augustine (44%)
17. Plato (41%)
18. Prescriptivism (22%)
19. Ockham (22%)
Sartre and Hume got a slight boost, the Stoics and the Cynics got a bigger boost, but, more worryingly, Bentham and Mill, my previous bottom-feeders, took a bit of a leap - while Ockham plummeted. What can it mean?? Whatever I
will it to mean, damn it - Nietzsche's still #1!
Aquilla
Jan 10 2004, 08:05 AM
1. Ayn Rand (100%) Click here for info
2. Aristotle (96%) Click here for info
3. John Stuart Mill (90%) Click here for info
4. Aquinas (90%) Click here for info
5. Stoics (88%) Click here for info
6. Epicureans (87%) Click here for info
7. Spinoza (87%) Click here for info
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (80%) Click here for info
9. Kant (80%) Click here for info
10. Jeremy Bentham (77%) Click here for info
11. Nietzsche (73%) Click here for info
12. David Hume (69%) Click here for info
13. Prescriptivism (55%) Click here for info
14. St. Augustine (54%) Click here for info
15. Plato (48%) Click here for info
16. Thomas Hobbes (48%) Click here for info
17. Nel Noddings (37%) Click here for info
18. Cynics (32%) Click here for info
19. Ockham (25%) Click here for info
Hmmmmm
Paladin Elspeth
Jan 10 2004, 09:48 AM
Most recent results---------- vs.----------earlier results (last year)
1. Aquinas (100%)---------------------- Aquinas (100%)
2. Plato (88%)--------------------------- Kant (93%)
3. Kant (80%) -------------------------- St. Augustine (92%)
4. Spinoza (80%)------------------------ Spinoza (91%)
5. St. Augustine (78%)------------------ Ockham (90%)
6. Jeremy Bentham (77%)-------------- John Stuart Mill (83%)
7. Aristotle (65%)------------------------ Jeremy Bentham (70%)
8. Ockham (57%)------------------------ Epicureans (62%)
9. Jean-Paul Sartre (56%)-------------- Aristotle (57%)
10. John Stuart Mill (54%)-------------- Jean-Paul Sartre (54%)
11. Stoics (53%)------------------------- Prescriptivism (44%)
12. Nel Noddings (45%)----------------- Cynics (37%)
13. Prescriptivism (41%)---------------- Ayn Rand (36%)
14. David Hume (40%)------------------ Nel Noddings (36%)
15. Ayn Rand (38%)--------------------- Nietzsche (33%)
16. Nietzsche (32%)--------------------- Plato (29%)
17. Cynics (25%)------------------------ Stoics (29%)
18. Epicureans (12%)------------------- David Hume (16%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (0%)-------------- Thomas Hobbes (4%)
Essentially the same--the first and last philosophers still are first and last. Just a little fine tuning here and there.
doomed_planet
Jan 10 2004, 05:47 PM
QUOTE(Paladin Elspeth @ Jan 10 2004, 09:48 AM)
Most recent results---------- vs.----------earlier results (last year)
1. Aquinas (100%)---------------------- Aquinas (100%)
2. Plato (88%)--------------------------- Kant (93%)
3. Kant (80%) -------------------------- St. Augustine (92%)
4. Spinoza (80%)------------------------ Spinoza (91%)
5. St. Augustine (78%)------------------ Ockham (90%)
6. Jeremy Bentham (77%)-------------- John Stuart Mill (83%)
7. Aristotle (65%)------------------------ Jeremy Bentham (70%)
8. Ockham (57%)------------------------ Epicureans (62%)
9. Jean-Paul Sartre (56%)-------------- Aristotle (57%)
10. John Stuart Mill (54%)-------------- Jean-Paul Sartre (54%)
(Well,
Paladin, it looks like you and I are on the same wave-length,
morally speaking

)
1. Aquinas (100%) Click here for info
2. Ockham (76%) Click here for info
3. John Stuart Mill (69%) Click here for info
4. St. Augustine (67%) Click here for info
5. Kant (64%) Click here for info
6. Aristotle (55%) Click here for info
7. Prescriptivism (55%) Click here for info
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (52%) Click here for info
9. Jeremy Bentham (47%) Click here for info
10. Ayn Rand (45%) Click here for info
quarkhead
Jan 11 2004, 09:45 AM
1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. Kant (92%)
3. Spinoza (83%)
4. Nel Noddings (66%)
5. Prescriptivism (63%)
6. John Stuart Mill (62%)
7. Aquinas (60%)
8. Ayn Rand (57%)
9. St. Augustine (57%)
10. Jeremy Bentham (56%)
11. Epicureans (53%)
12. Stoics (51%)
13. Nietzsche (50%)
14. David Hume (45%)
15. Aristotle (40%)
16. Ockham (40%)
17. Plato (33%)
18. Thomas Hobbes (27%)
19. Cynics (19%)
IndigoFlavours
Jan 11 2004, 02:12 PM
http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php...=PhilosophyGuys <--- I took a different one there and got 1. Kant 2. Nietzsche 3. Hume etc (with no %s)
And then I took the link on here and got
1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%) Click here for info
2. Ayn Rand (81%) Click here for info
3. Kant (80%) Click here for info
4. Stoics (78%) Click here for info
5. Aquinas (67%) Click here for info
6. David Hume (63%) Click here for info
7. Spinoza (60%) Click here for info
8. Nietzsche (56%) Click here for info
9. John Stuart Mill (55%) Click here for info
10. Aristotle (53%) Click here for info
11. St. Augustine (53%) Click here for info
12. Cynics (49%) Click here for info
13. Jeremy Bentham (45%) Click here for info
14. Thomas Hobbes (36%) Click here for info
15. Nel Noddings (31%) Click here for info
16. Plato (30%) Click here for info
17. Ockham (28%) Click here for info
18. Prescriptivism (21%) Click here for info
19. Epicureans (16%) Click here for info
which is kind of weird because my top three aren't very high on the list... but my list of people on the first one I took was much different than those on the second list.
rebelkate
Jan 12 2004, 09:24 AM
Okay, I took both - and the first quiz (with the %) I took twice - every time Aquinas came out on top (100%) - which only surprised me b/c I hadn't even considered him in picking a philosopher. Otherwise, Hobbes scored 1% both times I took the original quiz - also not a surprise.
The two times I took the first quiz, everything in between shifted around somewhat, but both times Ockham and Mill tied second at 72%. So I guess I'm pretty far into Aquinas - maybe the book I read on him in college stuck with me more than I thought!
Paladin Elspeth
Jan 12 2004, 09:30 AM

You're in good company,
rebelkate, with
doomed planet and me!
Paul Doran
Jan 12 2004, 10:03 AM
1. Jeremy Bentham (100%) Click here for info
2. Ayn Rand (94%) Click here for info
3. Aquinas (92%) Click here for info
4. Stoics (92%) Click here for info
5. Kant (91%) Click here for info
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (83%) Click here for info
7. Plato (79%) Click here for info
8. Aristotle (78%) Click here for info
9. John Stuart Mill (78%) Click here for info
10. St. Augustine (69%) Click here for info
11. Nel Noddings (68%) Click here for info
12. Cynics (63%) Click here for info
13. Prescriptivism (63%) Click here for info
14. Spinoza (60%) Click here for info
15. David Hume (55%) Click here for info
16. Nietzsche (55%) Click here for info
17. Thomas Hobbes (47%) Click here for info
18. Epicureans (31%) Click here for info
19. Ockham (15%) Click here for info
I didnt understadn the strength of preference bit, will that affect your reuslts? I just left it at medium for all of them??
I also think this quiz is really inaccurate, cos I know i dont belive some of what it is accusing me of!
Paul Doran
Jan 12 2004, 10:37 AM
Just repeated the test, removing some answers I felt i didnt truly belive in, to dislike the options/dont care. and got this:
1. Kant (100%) Click here for info
2. John Stuart Mill (93%) Click here for info
3. Ayn Rand (82%) Click here for info
4. Jeremy Bentham (78%) Click here for info
5. Aquinas (74%) Click here for info
6. Aristotle (72%) Click here for info
7. Spinoza (71%) Click here for info
8. Stoics (67%) Click here for info
9. Prescriptivism (63%) Click here for info
10. Epicureans (60%) Click here for info
11. Jean-Paul Sartre (59%) Click here for info
12. St. Augustine (54%) Click here for info
13. Ockham (52%) Click here for info
14. Nietzsche (48%) Click here for info
15. Cynics (33%) Click here for info
16. David Hume (33%) Click here for info
17. Plato (32%) Click here for info
18. Thomas Hobbes (16%) Click here for info
19. Nel Noddings (10%) Click here for info
Vercingetorix
Jan 13 2004, 02:49 AM
Actually, the 100% means that it is your closest match. SelectSmart quizzes are like that.
1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Kant (82%)
3. Jeremy Bentham (75%)
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (66%)
5. Epicureans (64%)
6. Ayn Rand (63%)
7. Prescriptivism (63%)
8. Aquinas (44%)
9. Nel Noddings (44%)
10. Spinoza (42%)
11. Aristotle (37%)
12. Thomas Hobbes (35%)
13. Cynics (32%)
14. Stoics (32%)
15. Nietzsche (29%)
16. Ockham (28%)
17. David Hume (26%)
18. St. Augustine (23%)
19. Plato (15%)
Heard most of the names, read some of them.
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