Ethical Philosophy quiz

[LeafAndSky]

Lol, I did this too at first to see what I'd get. It's the most accurate one for me!

Yes I picked "d) Doesn't matter/Dislike all answer choices" for everything and marked it high priority.

The questions and answers had words like should, must, proper, wrong, right, consistent, which were a problem for me. But behind those considerations were the considerations of definitions of the abstract terms addressed, of what language itself is, and of whether, after working backward from what we think we know, we really know anything.

On a practical level, the ways people act and choose are influenced not just by ethical philosophy but by culture, family, genetics, education, religious upbringing, trace minerals in the diet or lack thereof, hormones, pheromones of those nearby, weather, parasites, whatever.

The quiz needed an answer choice of "don't know" and a philosophy of "I don't know . . . and I don't know if I don't know."

 

[lunalum]

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (80%)
3. Ayn Rand (78%)
4. Nel Noddings (74%)
5. David Hume (70%)
6. Thomas Hobbes (70%)
7. Epicureans (68%)
8. Aquinas (66%)
9. Cynics (60%)
10. Nietzsche (58%)
11. Kant (49%)
12. Aristotle (47%)
13. Jeremy Bentham (43%)
14. Plato (41%)
15. Stoics (41%)
16. St. Augustine (35%)
17. Spinoza (23%)
18. Ockham (17%)
19. Prescriptivism (17%)

 

[Shimmy]

1. Kant (100%) Books, etc. Information link
2. Stoics (91%) Books, etc. Information link
3. Ayn Rand (88%) Books, etc. Information link
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (87%) Books, etc. Information link
5. David Hume (79%) Books, etc. Information link
6. John Stuart Mill (76%) Books, etc. Information link
7. Nietzsche (72%) Books, etc. Information link
8. Spinoza (69%) Books, etc. Information link
9. Aristotle (65%) Books, etc. Information link
10. Plato (58%) Books, etc. Information link
11. Thomas Hobbes (57%) Books, etc. Information link
12. Epicureans (55%) Books, etc. Information link
13. Aquinas (54%) Books, etc. Information link
14. Jeremy Bentham (54%) Books, etc. Information link
15. Prescriptivism (51%) Books, etc. Information link
16. St. Augustine (40%) Books, etc. Information link
17. Cynics (34%) Books, etc. Information link
18. Ockham (29%) Books, etc. Information link
19. Nel Noddings (26%) Books, etc. Information link

 

[Litvyak]

1. Thomas Hobbes (100%) Books, etc. Information link
2. Jeremy Bentham (97%) Books, etc. Information link
3. John Stuart Mill (87%) Books, etc. Information link
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (81%) Books, etc. Information link
5. Ayn Rand (76%) Books, etc. Information link
6. Cynics (75%) Books, etc. Information link
7. Epicureans (75%) Books, etc. Information link
8. Nel Noddings (75%) Books, etc. Information link
9. Aristotle (72%) Books, etc. Information link
10. Plato (69%) Books, etc. Information link
11. Aquinas (68%) Books, etc. Information link
12. David Hume (65%) Books, etc. Information link
13. Nietzsche (63%) Books, etc. Information link
14. Prescriptivism (63%) Books, etc. Information link
15. Kant (56%) Books, etc. Information link
16. St. Augustine (43%) Books, etc. Information link
17. Stoics (37%) Books, etc. Information link
18. Ockham (31%) Books, etc. Information link
19. Spinoza (31%) Books, etc. Information link

 

[themightybob]

1. David Hume (100%) Books, etc. Information link
2. Nietzsche (100%) Books, etc. Information link
3. Thomas Hobbes (100%) Books, etc. Information link
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (94%) Books, etc. Information link
5. Ayn Rand (88%) Books, etc. Information link
6. Stoics (84%) Books, etc. Information link
7. Epicureans (73%) Books, etc. Information link
8. Spinoza (68%) Books, etc. Information link
9. Cynics (65%) Books, etc. Information link
10. Kant (61%) Books, etc. Information link
11. Aristotle (58%) Books, etc. Information link
12. Prescriptivism (48%) Books, etc. Information link
13. Jeremy Bentham (47%) Books, etc. Information link
14. John Stuart Mill (47%) Books, etc. Information link
15. Plato (41%) Books, etc. Information link
16. Nel Noddings (36%) Books, etc. Information link
17. Ockham (31%) Books, etc. Information link
18. Aquinas (27%) Books, etc. Information link
19. St. Augustine (25%) Books, etc. Information link

 

[Falcarius]

Aquinas (100%)
Spinoza (96%)
Epicureans (83%)
Aristotle (78%)
John Stuart Mill (78%)
Stoics (67%)
Thomas Hobbes (61%)
St. Augustine (57%)
Cynics (56%)
Jeremy Bentham (56%)
Ayn Rand (54%)
Nietzsche (50%)
Jean-Paul Sartre (50%)
Kant (48%)
Plato (39%)
David Hume (33%)
Nel Noddings (31%)
Prescriptivism (28%)
Ockham (23%)

 

[Lark]

Conspicous by their abscence from the list Marx, Fromm, Chris Lasch

 

[Polaris]

I got:

1. Nietzsche (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (80%)
3. Spinoza (78%)
4. David Hume (65%)
5. Kant (65%)
6. Stoics (63%)
7. Prescriptivism (60%)
8. Aristotle (56%)
9. Ockham (54%)
10. Epicureans (49%)
11. Thomas Hobbes (49%)
12. Jeremy Bentham (43%)
13. John Stuart Mill (43%)
14. Ayn Rand (41%)
15. Aquinas (36%)
16. Cynics (32%)
17. Nel Noddings (32%)
18. St. Augustine (21%)
19. Plato (5%)

 

[PuddleRiver]

Spinoza (100%)
Aquinas (83%)
St. Augustine (78%)
Jean Paul Sartre (67%)
Kant (61%)
Aristotle (60%)
Epicurians (59%)
John Stuart Mill (59%)
Jeremy Bentham (57%)
Nel Noddings (57%)
Ockham (54%)
Nietzsche (53%)
David Hume (51%)
Stoics (50%)
Cynics (36%)
Thomas Hobbes (31%)
Ayn Rand (30%)
Prescriptivism (23%)
Plato (21%)

 

[phthalocyanine]

lol, inaccurate. didn't like this quiz so much, but if i spent time on it, post results i shall.

1. Aquinas
2. Epicureans
3. John Stuart Mill
4. Ockham
5. Kant
6. Spinoza
7. Jean-Paul Sartre
8. St. Augustine
9. Aristotle
10. Prescriptivism
11. Jeremy Bentham
12. Plato
13. Ayn Rand
14. Nietzsche
15. Stoics
16. Nel Noddings
17. David Hume
18. Thomas Hobbes
19. Cynics

 

[CzeCze]

1. Aquinas (100%) Books, etc. Information link
2. John Stuart Mill (73%) Books, etc. Information link
3. Aristotle (71%) Books, etc. Information link
4. Kant (62%) Books, etc. Information link
5. St. Augustine (58%) Books, etc. Information link
6. Epicureans (53%) Books, etc. Information link
7. Ayn Rand (52%) Books, etc. Information link
8. Plato (52%) Books, etc. Information link
9. Ockham (50%) Books, etc. Information link
10. Prescriptivism (49%) Books, etc. Information link
11. Spinoza (46%) Books, etc. Information link
12. Jeremy Bentham (44%) Books, etc. Information link
13. Jean-Paul Sartre (34%) Books, etc. Information link
14. Nel Noddings (25%) Books, etc. Information link
15. Nietzsche (22%) Books, etc. Information link
16. Stoics (17%) Books, etc. Information link
17. David Hume (14%) Books, etc. Information link
18. Cynics (13%) Books, etc. Information link
19. Thomas Hobbes (0%) Books, etc. Information link

Groggy and didn't really get a lot of the questions. This reminds me of my entry course on political theory in undergrad. Mill, Hume, Hobbes, bah. What does this all mean?!?! LOL.

Can someone more well read in philosophy break this down for me in layman's terms? Am I a hippie?

 

[Litvyak]

Can someone more well read in philosophy break this down for me in layman's terms? Am I a hippie?

With top scores of Aquinas and Mill? Yes you are

 

[lowtech redneck]

Cynics 100%
J.S. Mill 96%
Jean-Paul Sartre 94%
Thomas Hobbes 94%
Ayn Rand 89%

Needs a lot more questions, and a lot more options.

 

[Chunes]

0% across the board. This test isn't kind to ethical nihilists.

There is one question that I could vaguely stomach answering definitively, which puts me at 100% for Aquinas and Plato. I can live with that. Aquinas is my favorite philosopher, after all, and Plato not far behind.

 

[lowtech redneck]

0% across the board. This test isn't kind to ethical nihilists.

Heh. I chose to ignore the "none of the above" option and answered as if I had to choose which of the remaining options were the "most true."

 

[BlackCat]

1. Kant (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (93%)
3. Stoics (91%)
4. Aristotle (91%)
5. Spinoza (88%)
6. Aquinas (84%)
7. Epicureans (73%)
8. Jeremy Bentham (70%)
9. Jean-Paul Sartre (67%)
10. Ayn Rand (66%)
11. Nietzsche (64%)
12. David Hume (62%)
13. Nel Noddings (49%)
14. Prescriptivism (48%)
15. Cynics (42%)
16. Ockham (41%)
17. Thomas Hobbes (41%)
18. St. Augustine (40%)
19. Plato (28%)

 

[ragashree]

1. St. Augustine (100%)
2. Aquinas (92%)
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (92%)
4. Spinoza (87%)
5. Ockham (82%)
6. Kant (74%)
7. Nel Noddings (57%)
8. Aristotle (52%)
9. John Stuart Mill (52%)
10. Stoics (52%)
11. Nietzsche (50%)
12. Plato (50%)
13. David Hume (42%)
14. Epicureans (41%)
15. Jeremy Bentham (38%)
16. Ayn Rand (31%)
17. Prescriptivism (26%)
18. Cynics (20%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (14%)

Hmm, this fits pretty well actually. The top and bottom few, especially, seem very accurate. I don't think there were enough questions though...

 

[kingofdufferin]

1. St. Augustine (100%)
2. Aquinas (95%)
3. Ockham (86%)
4. Spinoza (71%)
5. Kant (54%)
6. John Stuart Mill (52%)
7. Aristotle (51%)
8. Jeremy Bentham (41%)
9. Nel Noddings (40%)
10. Epicureans (36%)
11. Prescriptivism (35%)
12. Jean-Paul Sartre (33%)
13. Cynics (32%)
14. Plato (32%)
15. Stoics (29%)
16. Nietzsche (26%)
17. Ayn Rand (21%)
18. David Hume (20%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (2%)
I found that the questions were somewhat ineffectively worded. I agree with the results, though.

 

[Eckhart]

Questions were kinda unclear sometimes to me.

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%) Books, etc. Information link
2. Nietzsche (97%) Books, etc. Information link
3. Stoics (97%) Books, etc. Information link
4. Nel Noddings (91%) Books, etc. Information link
5. Spinoza (89%) Books, etc. Information link
6. Aquinas (87%) Books, etc. Information link
7. Aristotle (81%) Books, etc. Information link
8. Kant (81%) Books, etc. Information link
9. David Hume (71%) Books, etc. Information link
10. St. Augustine (71%) Books, etc. Information link
11. Ockham (69%) Books, etc. Information link
12. Ayn Rand (65%) Books, etc. Information link
13. Epicureans (55%) Books, etc. Information link
14. Jeremy Bentham (53%) Books, etc. Information link
15. John Stuart Mill (46%) Books, etc. Information link
16. Prescriptivism (46%) Books, etc. Information link
17. Cynics (36%) Books, etc. Information link
18. Plato (34%) Books, etc. Information link
19. Thomas Hobbes (28%) Books, etc. Information link

Nietzsche on second, heh. Don't know all the positions listed here, but I always liked reading some of Kant's stuff. Although I don't necessarily agree completely on his positions, I like his ability to explain his positions. His thinking is easy to follow and it seems usually well thought out.

 

[KDude]

1. Jeremy Bentham (100%) Books, etc. Information link
2. John Stuart Mill (85%) Books, etc. Information link
3. Aquinas (76%) Books, etc. Information link
4. Epicureans (76%) Books, etc. Information link
5. Aristotle (69%) Books, etc. Information link
6. Kant (62%) Books, etc. Information link
7. Plato (60%) Books, etc. Information link
8. St. Augustine (51%) Books, etc. Information link
9. Thomas Hobbes (50%) Books, etc. Information link
10. Prescriptivism (49%) Books, etc. Information link
11. Jean-Paul Sartre (48%) Books, etc. Information link
12. Ockham (42%) Books, etc. Information link
13. Spinoza (37%) Books, etc. Information link
14. Ayn Rand (32%) Books, etc. Information link
15. David Hume (28%) Books, etc. Information link
16. Nel Noddings (25%) Books, etc. Information link
17. Cynics (24%) Books, etc. Information link
18. Nietzsche (20%) Books, etc. Information link
19. Stoics (12%) Books, etc. Information link

edit: I actually don't mind Stoic philosophy.. (and Taoism as well) as a means to gain some peace of mind from lack of justice. But as far as society as a whole goes, you've got to fight for your right to party (other people's rights at least).