Ethical Philosophy quiz

[ReadingRainbows]

1. Spinoza (100%)
2. Kant (96%)
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (95%)
4. John Stuart Mill (91%)
5. Epicureans (89%)
6. Nietzsche (79%)
7. Aquinas (78%)
8. Ayn Rand (72%)
9. Jeremy Bentham (69%)
10. Aristotle (65%)
11. Stoics (65%)
12. Prescriptivism (56%)
13. St. Augustine (54%)
14. David Hume (49%)
16. Thomas Hobbes (45%)
17. Plato (44%)
18. Nel Noddings (38%)
19. Cynics (22%)

 

[Invisiblemonkey]

1. St. Augustine (100%)
2. Aquinas (91%)
3. Plato (74%)
4. Spinoza (74%)
5. Aristotle (61%)
6. Ockham (56%)
7. Jeremy Bentham (48%)
8. John Stuart Mill (39%)
9. David Hume (33%)
10. Jean-Paul Sartre (32%)
11. Nel Noddings (32%)
12. Ayn Rand (30%)
13. Cynics (30%)
14. Epicureans (30%)
15. Stoics (30%)
16. Kant (26%)
17. Nietzsche (25%)
18. Thomas Hobbes (20%)
19. Prescriptivism (6%)

Not a clue as to who the vast majority of these people are, but the uppermost seem close to my personal philosophy...

 

[ZPowers]

Closed the window, but I got Kant (100%), with the Utilitarians Bentham and Mill following in the 90 percents and then Satre. Rand was after that at 70. I fully despise Ayn Rand. Like, a lot. Seriously. Soooo much.

Kant seems right. Basis in the world of reason is pretty INTP I suppose. The Utilitarians have also been accused of being too logical or cold.

But they aren't not as cold and awful as Ayn Rand, that bitch.

 

[Vasilisa]

1. Aquinas (100%)
2. Aristotle (78%)
3. Ockham (75%)
4. Plato (74%)
5. Epicureans (73%)
6. John Stuart Mill (71%)
7. St. Augustine (70%)
8. Jeremy Bentham (68%)
9. Ayn Rand (55%)
10. Kant (51%)
11. Prescriptivism (47%)
12. Spinoza (44%)
13. Jean-Paul Sartre (38%)
14. Cynics (33%)
15. Nel Noddings (26%)
16. Nietzsche (26%)
17. Stoics (24%)
18. David Hume (18%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (16%)

 

[Wonkavision]

I got:

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. Kant (94%)
3. John Stuart Mill (76%)
4. Ayn Rand (75%)
5. Spinoza (65%)
6. Aquinas (63%)
7. Nietzsche (63%)
8. Epicureans (60%)
9. Jeremy Bentham (54%)
10. Aristotle (50%)
11. David Hume (50%)
12. Prescriptivism (47%)
13. Stoics (42%)
14. Ockham (41%)
15. St. Augustine (36%)
16. Thomas Hobbes (36%)
17. Cynics (27%)
18. Nel Noddings (27%)
19. Plato (24%)

Yeah, makes sense.

I agree wholeheartedly (even passionately) with these concepts (though I don't always succeed at living by them):

Sartre -

When we choose something, we affirm the value of our choice because we have chosen it above other choices

We must be consistent in our interpretations of moral situations regardless of whom the agent is.

Making conscious moral choices is more significant than consistently following moral guidelines
The conflict between the interests of two people is in the end, irresolvable


Kant-

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

 

[Ginkgo]

1. Spinoza (100%)
2. Aquinas (92%)
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (81%)
4. Aristotle (71%)
5. Nel Noddings (69%)
6. John Stuart Mill (66%)
7. Jeremy Bentham (63%)
8. Epicureans (62%)
9. Nietzsche (62%)
10. St. Augustine (62%)
11. Kant (58%)
12. David Hume (52%)
13. Stoics (51%)
14. Cynics (49%)
15. Ockham (49%)
16. Thomas Hobbes (35%)
17. Plato (32%)
18. Ayn Rand (24%)
19. Prescriptivism (22%)

 

[Nicodemus]

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. Epicureans (84%)
3. Kant (77%)
4. John Stuart Mill (70%)
5. Thomas Hobbes (63%)
6. Nel Noddings (60%)
7. Prescriptivism (53%)
8. Ayn Rand (50%)
9. Ockham (50%)
10. David Hume (46%)
11. Nietzsche (46%)
12. Spinoza (46%)
13. Cynics (42%)
14. Jeremy Bentham (42%)
15. Stoics (39%)
16. Aquinas (16%)
17. Aristotle (14%)
18. St. Augustine (11%)
19. Plato (8%)

The results are not consistent with my real views, though. I should be near Sartre and Epicurus, but miles away from Kant or Mill.

 

[Donna Cecilia]

1. Nietzsche (100%)
2. Ayn Rand (97%)
3. David Hume (91%)
4. Thomas Hobbes (91%)
5. Epicureans (79%)
6. Cynics (77%)
7. Aristotle (75%)
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (74%)
9. Stoics (67%)
10. Plato (63%)
11. John Stuart Mill (62%)
12. Spinoza (62%)
13. Aquinas (58%)
14. Jeremy Bentham (53%)
15. St. Augustine (45%)
16. Kant (44%)
17. Prescriptivism (41%)
18. Ockham (37%)
19. Nel Noddings (13%)

Althought I didn´t like some of the questions, it matches my views.

 

[Take Five]

1. St. Augustine (100%) Books, etc. Information link
2. Aquinas (82%) Books, etc. Information link
3. Ockham (77%) Books, etc. Information link
4. Spinoza (62%) Books, etc. Information link
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (55%) Books, etc. Information link
6. Plato (54%) Books, etc. Information link
7. Kant (53%) Books, etc. Information link
8. Aristotle (45%) Books, etc. Information link
9. Jeremy Bentham (41%) Books, etc. Information link
10. John Stuart Mill (38%) Books, etc. Information link
11. David Hume (30%) Books, etc. Information link
12. Stoics (30%) Books, etc. Information link
13. Ayn Rand (29%) Books, etc. Information link
14. Nietzsche (25%) Books, etc. Information link
15. Prescriptivism (24%) Books, etc. Information link
16. Cynics (22%) Books, etc. Information link
17. Nel Noddings (20%) Books, etc. Information link
18. Epicureans (11%) Books, etc. Information link
19. Thomas Hobbes (0%) Books, etc. Information link

 

[Aquarelle]

1. Aquinas (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (81%)
3. Aristotle (75%)
4. Kant (72%)
5. John Stuart Mill (66%)
6. Spinoza (62%)
7. Stoics (57%)
8. Plato (54%)
9. Jeremy Bentham (52%)
10. St. Augustine (51%)
11. Epicureans (48%)
12. Nietzsche (48%)
13. David Hume (46%)
14. Ockham (44%)
15. Nel Noddings (35%)
16. Ayn Rand (32%)
17. Thomas Hobbes (14%)
18. Cynics (13%)
19. Prescriptivism (12%)

Hmm, I think my beliefs are more in line with Aristotle. I'd probably put him at the top of the list, followed by Aquinas. After that, I don't know.

 

[Sniffles]

Aquinas was heavily influenced by Aristotle.

 

[Aquarelle]

That makes sense. I've never been a big philosophy fan, so I'm not intimately familiar with most of these philosophies. But those two, from the descriptions, sound most like me.

 

[Sniffles]

GK Chesterton wrote one of the better introductions to Aquinas; which is summarised here:
Lecture 67: St. Thomas Aquinas

 

[Ginkgo]

I was reading the results and it seemed like Aquinas was a consistently agreed with philosopher. Then I read your article-

But the point is, none of the modern philosophies make any sense to the man on the street. Surprisingly, the philosophy that is closest to the mind of the man on the street is the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Firmly rooted in reality, fully respectful of human dignity, and, in every sense of the word, reasonable.

I must agree.

 

[lucibelle]

Ethics is the area of philosophy that I really don't give a damn about
Decided to do this anyway.

Email Your Results (See link below this list)
1. Nietzsche (100%)
2. Thomas Hobbes (98%)
3. Cynics (97%)
4. David Hume (95%)
5. Stoics (83%)
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (81%)
7. Ayn Rand (78%)
8. Epicureans (56%)
9. Kant (52%)
10. Nel Noddings (48%)
11. Spinoza (42%)
12. John Stuart Mill (39%)
13. Jeremy Bentham (36%)
14. Aristotle (35%)
15. Aquinas (30%)
16. Plato (29%)
17. Ockham (26%)
18. St. Augustine (25%)
19. Prescriptivism (24%)

 

[ragashree]

Ethics is the area of philosophy that I really don't give a damn about

I see this by your results!

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

I WIN

1. St. Augustine (100%)
2. Spinoza (96%)
3. Stoics (89%)
4. Aquinas (89%)
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (79%)
6. Nietzsche (75%)
7. David Hume (68%)
8. Cynics (62%)
9. Ayn Rand (60%)
10. Kant (58%)
11. Aristotle (53%)
12. Ockham (49%)
13. John Stuart Mill (46%)
14. Jeremy Bentham (45%)
15. Nel Noddings (42%)
16. Thomas Hobbes (42%)
17. Epicureans (37%)
18. Plato (31%)
19. Prescriptivism (7%)

 

[ragashree]

One thing I notice from looking back through the thread: NO-one likes Prescriptivism...

 

[Nicodemus]

Because Hare was a fool.

 

[Ginkgo]

One thing I notice from looking back through the thread: NO-one likes Prescriptivism...

Wiki says:

Universal prescriptivism (often simply called prescriptivism) is the meta-ethical view which claims that:
Ethical sentences do not express propositions.
Instead, ethical sentences function similarly to imperatives which are universalizable — whoever makes a moral judgment is committed to the same judgment in any situation where the same relevant facts obtain.
This makes prescriptivism a universalist form of non-cognitivism or expressivism. Prescriptivism stands in opposition to other forms of non-cognitivism (such as emotivism and quasi-realism), as well as to all forms of cognitivism (including both moral realism and ethical subjectivism).
Since the concept was introduced by philosopher R. M. Hare in his 1952 book The Language of Morals, it has been compared to emotivism and to the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant.[1][2]
For an illustrative example of the prescriptivist stance, consider the moral sentence "Murder is wrong". According to moral realism, such a sentence claims there to be some objective property of 'wrongness' associated with the act of murder. According to moral relativism, such a sentence simply claims that murder is disapproved of by society. According to emotivism, such a sentence merely expresses an attitude of the speaker; it only means something like "Boo on murder!" But according to prescriptivism, the statement "Murder is wrong" means something more like "Do not murder" — what it expresses is not primarily a description or an emotion, it is an imperative. A value-judgment might also have descriptive and emotive meanings, but these are not its primary meaning on a prescriptivist account.
Hare would allow utilitarian considerations to enter into such a formulation, but he would not base the formula or his ethical theory solely on a principle of utility. Hare believed that all of our ethical propositions ought to conform with logic.
Peter Singer has expressed sympathy with Hare's position,[3] though he is more strictly representative of the preference utilitarian school.

I don't understand. This is nitpicking. If an action is wrong, we should not do it. However, there is a greater context in most moral decisions. Different cultures make different value judgments on things, hence the fact that we have different laws and stoof. So if it's criminal to, for instance, smoke marijuana is one state, it might not be in another. It's not something that can be applied across the board because the board is varied.