Ethical Philosophy Test

[Julien]

1.    Nietzsche   (100%)  Click here for info

Scary

Now why do you say that? I assume you are making a judgement on the fact that the Nazis adopted and twisted much of his philosophy in order to justify their actions.

I agree with Tory, Nietzsche was a fascist

[Tory]

I wouldn't go so far as to call him fascist, but he had a rather sick and twisted world-view. A disturbed individual.

[JohnFKennedy]

1.    John Stuart Mill   (100%)
2.    Epicureans   (83%)
3.    Jean-Paul Sartre   (80%)
4.    Aquinas   (80%)
5.    Jeremy Bentham   (76%)
6.    Ayn Rand   (70%)
7.    Aristotle   (68%)
8.    Kant   (59%)
9.    Nietzsche   (48%)
10.    St. Augustine   (47%)
11.    Spinoza   (47%)
12.    Plato   (46%)
13.    David Hume   (44%)
14.    Thomas Hobbes   (44%)
15.    Cynics   (39%)
16.    Prescriptivism   (37%)
17.    Nel Noddings   (36%)
18.    Stoics   (33%)
19.    Ockham   (31%) 

I can't say I know who any of these people are.  Can anyone help?  Who's John Stuart Mill?

A famous Utilitarian. He wrote a series of essays that are compiled in a book called On Liberty (being the name of one of his essays) and another book called utilitarianism.

John Stuart Mill

Utilitarianism

[Gabu]

Hmm, well, having read those two articles (thanks for that), that result looks pretty good.

[JohnFKennedy]

I wouldn't go so far as to call him fascist, but he had a rather sick and twisted world-view. A disturbed individual.

IIRC He was very introverted and lived in solitude for much of his life.

[JohnFKennedy]

Hmm, well, having read those two articles (thanks for that), that result looks pretty good.

It is, I am a bit of a fan of utilitarianism though I have yet to read Bentham or Mills, I do have On Liberty by my bed waiting to be read.

[Julien]

I wouldn't go so far as to call him fascist, but he had a rather sick and twisted world-view. A disturbed individual.

IIRC He was very introverted and lived in solitude for much of his life.

He had a mental breakdown and became clinically insane.

[JohnFKennedy]

I wouldn't go so far as to call him fascist, but he had a rather sick and twisted world-view. A disturbed individual.

IIRC He was very introverted and lived in solitude for much of his life.

He had a mental breakdown and became clinically insane.

Yes, ten years before his death, his philosophical works were written before than however so what is your point?

[Julien]

I wouldn't go so far as to call him fascist, but he had a rather sick and twisted world-view. A disturbed individual.

IIRC He was very introverted and lived in solitude for much of his life.

He had a mental breakdown and became clinically insane.

Yes, ten years before his death, his philosophical works were written before than however so what is your point?

My point is he was sickly all of his life. He was probably insane long before his "breakdown".

[DanielX]

1.    John Stuart Mill   (100%)
2.    Aristotle   (98%)
3.    Epicureans   (95%)
4.    Ayn Rand   (90%)
5.    Kant   (89%)
6.    Aquinas   (86%)
7.    Jeremy Bentham   (74%) 
8.    Jean-Paul Sartre   (71%) 
9.    Prescriptivism   (62%)
10.    Stoics   (62%) 
11.    Ockham   (59%) 
12.    Spinoza   (56%) 
13.    Plato   (46%) 
14.    St. Augustine   (45%)
15.    Nietzsche   (43%) 
16.    David Hume   (40%) 
17.    Cynics   (27%) 
18.    Nel Noddings   (27%) 
19.    Thomas Hobbes   (27%) 

[12th Doctor]

1.    Nietzsche   (100%)  Click here for info
2.    Jean-Paul Sartre   (95%)  Click here for info
3.    David Hume   (84%)  Click here for info
4.    Thomas Hobbes   (71%)  Click here for info
5.    Stoics   (68%)  Click here for info
6.    Epicureans   (64%)  Click here for info
7.    Spinoza   (64%)  Click here for info
8.    Kant   (60%)  Click here for info
9.    Ayn Rand   (50%)  Click here for info
10.    Prescriptivism   (47%)  Click here for info
11.    John Stuart Mill   (45%)  Click here for info
12.    Nel Noddings   (42%)  Click here for info
13.    St. Augustine   (39%)  Click here for info
14.    Jeremy Bentham   (37%)  Click here for info
15.    Cynics   (35%)  Click here for info
16.    Aristotle   (34%)  Click here for info
17.    Aquinas   (29%)  Click here for info
18.    Plato   (29%)  Click here for info
19.    Ockham   (28%)  Click here for info

Strange.....I consider myself at least partially utilitarian and yet JSM was only a 45% match and Bentham a 37% match.

You think that "God is dead" then?

[Richard]

1.  Ayn Rand   (100%)   
2.  Nietzsche   (82%) 

Nietzsche?  Number 2?  I should have known.

1.    St. Augustine   (100%)
2.    Ayn Rand   (88%)
3.    Aquinas   (85%) 
4.    Spinoza   (82%) 
5.    Ockham   (75%)
6.    Cynics   (72%)
7.    Kant   (68%) 
8.    Aristotle   (65%) 
9.    Nietzsche   (64%) 
10.    David Hume   (61%)
11.    Stoics   (58%)
12.    John Stuart Mill   (58%) 
13.    Jean-Paul Sartre   (55%) 
14.    Jeremy Bentham   (45%)
15.    Epicureans   (42%)
16.    Thomas Hobbes   (41%)
17.    Prescriptivism   (37%) 
18.    Nel Noddings   (35%)
19.    Plato   (30%)

[Platypus]

i got bored at question two and didn't finish.

[Baggy Green]

1.  St. Augustine   (100%) 
2.  Plato   (79%) 
3.  Aquinas   (76%) 
4.  John Stuart Mill   (73%)   
5.  Kant   (68%) 
6.  Ockham   (65%) 
7.  Prescriptivism   (59%) 
8.  Ayn Rand   (57%) 
9.  Jean-Paul Sartre   (55%) 
10.  Jeremy Bentham   (53%)   
11.  Aristotle   (52%) 
12.  Epicureans   (52%) 
13.  Spinoza   (50%) 
14.  Nel Noddings   (39%) 
15.  Stoics   (23%)
16.  Cynics   (13%)
17.  David Hume   (13%)   
18.  Nietzsche   (7%) 
19.  Thomas Hobbes   (0%) 

[12th Doctor]

i got bored at question two and didn't finish.

You must have a really short attention span.  You never finish one of these test.

[Platypus]

Well, most of thse quizzes are boring.

[patrick1]

1.    St. Augustine   (100%) 
2.    Aquinas   (99%) 
3.    Kant   (85%) 
4.    Spinoza   (82%) 
5.    Ockham   (80%) 
6.    John Stuart Mill   (75%) 
7.    Jeremy Bentham   (74%) 
8.    Aristotle   (70%) 
9.    Prescriptivism   (65%) 
10.    Plato   (62%) 
11.    Ayn Rand   (56%) 
12.    Stoics   (55%) 
13.    Epicureans   (51%)
14.    Cynics   (45%) 
15.    Jean-Paul Sartre   (44%) 
16.    Nel Noddings   (43%) 
17.    Nietzsche   (42%) 
18.    David Hume   (25%) 
19.    Thomas Hobbes   (4%) 

I guess 16 years of Catholic theology had their impact with St Augustine and Aquinas 1 and 2.  Kant had many novel ideas but the categorical imperative is flawed and allows for zero common sense and leeway.  I have read works from all the Philosophers/movements on this list save Nel Noddings and interestingly found Nietzsche to be the best read and Kant the worst.

[Erc]

1.  Aquinas   (100%)  
2.  Kant   (96%)  
3.  St. Augustine   (93%)  
4.  Ockham   (84%)  
5.  John Stuart Mill   (78%)  
6.  Jeremy Bentham   (73%)  
7.  Prescriptivism   (73%)  
8.  Spinoza   (56%)  
9.  Plato   (54%)  
10.  Jean-Paul Sartre   (53%)  
11.  Ayn Rand   (48%)  
12.  Aristotle   (46%)  
13.  Epicureans   (42%)
14.  Stoics   (39%)  
15.  Nel Noddings   (26%)
16.  Nietzsche   (18%)  
17.  Cynics   (14%)  
18.  David Hume   (14%)  
19.  Thomas Hobbes   (14%)  

I find the 73% for Bentham disturbing, but ah well...

[KEmperor]

1.    Aristotle   (100%)  Click here for info
2.    Ayn Rand   (96%)  Click here for info
3.    Aquinas   (87%)  Click here for info
4.    Nietzsche   (83%)  Click here for info
5.    Epicureans   (79%)  Click here for info
6.    Jeremy Bentham   (75%)  Click here for info
7.    Spinoza   (75%)  Click here for info
8.    John Stuart Mill   (71%)  Click here for info
9.    Plato   (70%)  Click here for info
10.    St. Augustine   (70%)  Click here for info
11.    Thomas Hobbes   (69%)  Click here for info
12.    Cynics   (67%)  Click here for info
13.    David Hume   (66%)  Click here for info
14.    Jean-Paul Sartre   (58%)  Click here for info
15.    Stoics   (58%)  Click here for info
16.    Kant   (56%)  Click here for info
17.    Ockham   (41%)  Click here for info
18.    Prescriptivism   (36%)  Click here for info
19.    Nel Noddings   (35%)  Click here for info

As an Objectivist, I am disappointed I wasn't able to get 100% for Ayn Rand.  But no real surprises here.

[12th Doctor]

I think I missed getting Aquinace and Augustine, because, while I think God sets down moral laws, I believe that those laws follow universal, metaphysical priciples that would be true even without a God.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I wouldn't go so far as to call him fascist, but he had a rather sick and twisted world-view. A disturbed individual.

IIRC He was very introverted and lived in solitude for much of his life.

He had a mental breakdown and became clinically insane.

Yes, ten years before his death, his philosophical works were written before than however so what is your point?

He had Syphalis. He was mad when he wrote his crap ("Why I am So Wise"...)

[Bono]

1. Kant (100%)

Finally.

[Bono]

1.    Aristotle   (100%)  Click here for info
2.    Ayn Rand   (96%)  Click here for info
3.    Aquinas   (87%)  Click here for info
4.    Nietzsche   (83%)  Click here for info
5.    Epicureans   (79%)  Click here for info
6.    Jeremy Bentham   (75%)  Click here for info
7.    Spinoza   (75%)  Click here for info
8.    John Stuart Mill   (71%)  Click here for info
9.    Plato   (70%)  Click here for info
10.    St. Augustine   (70%)  Click here for info
11.    Thomas Hobbes   (69%)  Click here for info
12.    Cynics   (67%)  Click here for info
13.    David Hume   (66%)  Click here for info
14.    Jean-Paul Sartre   (58%)  Click here for info
15.    Stoics   (58%)  Click here for info
16.    Kant   (56%)  Click here for info
17.    Ockham   (41%)  Click here for info
18.    Prescriptivism   (36%)  Click here for info
19.    Nel Noddings   (35%)  Click here for info

As an Objectivist, I am disappointed I wasn't able to get 100% for Ayn Rand.  But no real surprises here.

Well, Aristotle, Nietzsche and Aquinas all greatly influenced Rand, so you're still good.

[Bono]

1.    St. Augustine   (100%) 
2.    Aquinas   (99%) 
3.    Kant   (85%) 
4.    Spinoza   (82%) 
5.    Ockham   (80%) 
6.    John Stuart Mill   (75%) 
7.    Jeremy Bentham   (74%) 
8.    Aristotle   (70%) 
9.    Prescriptivism   (65%) 
10.    Plato   (62%) 
11.    Ayn Rand   (56%) 
12.    Stoics   (55%) 
13.    Epicureans   (51%)
14.    Cynics   (45%) 
15.    Jean-Paul Sartre   (44%) 
16.    Nel Noddings   (43%) 
17.    Nietzsche   (42%) 
18.    David Hume   (25%) 
19.    Thomas Hobbes   (4%) 

I guess 16 years of Catholic theology had their impact with St Augustine and Aquinas 1 and 2.  Kant had many novel ideas but the categorical imperative is flawed and allows for zero common sense and leeway.  I have read works from all the Philosophers/movements on this list save Nel Noddings and interestingly found Nietzsche to be the best read and Kant the worst.

Schopenhauer is virtually the best writer in the field of Philosophers, but he isn't on the list. too bad, because I consider myself a Schopenhauerian, whit a few modifications.

[DanielX]

1.    Aristotle   (100%)  Click here for info
2.    Ayn Rand   (96%)  Click here for info
3.    Aquinas   (87%)  Click here for info
4.    Nietzsche   (83%)  Click here for info
5.    Epicureans   (79%)  Click here for info
6.    Jeremy Bentham   (75%)  Click here for info
7.    Spinoza   (75%)  Click here for info
8.    John Stuart Mill   (71%)  Click here for info
9.    Plato   (70%)  Click here for info
10.    St. Augustine   (70%)  Click here for info
11.    Thomas Hobbes   (69%)  Click here for info
12.    Cynics   (67%)  Click here for info
13.    David Hume   (66%)  Click here for info
14.    Jean-Paul Sartre   (58%)  Click here for info
15.    Stoics   (58%)  Click here for info
16.    Kant   (56%)  Click here for info
17.    Ockham   (41%)  Click here for info
18.    Prescriptivism   (36%)  Click here for info
19.    Nel Noddings   (35%)  Click here for info

As an Objectivist, I am disappointed I wasn't able to get 100% for Ayn Rand.  But no real surprises here.

There there.... Aristotle was Rand's favorite non-Rand philosopher...

Note that I am not an Objectivist. I did read her books this summer, though, and they had an impact (in an obvious political one, I went from being a mainline conservative to a libertarian-leaning one).  I got 'John Stuart Mill' first, Aristotle second, the Epicurians third (who were they again?), and Rand fourth.