Which philosopher best suits your views? Test

[randpaul2016]

http://selectsmart.com/philosophy/

 

[TheTexan]

Epicurean (100%)
Nietzsche (93%)
John Stuart Mill (90%)
Ayn Rand (88%)
Thomas Hobbes (87%)

 

[presence]

1.	St. Augustine (100%)
	2.	Thomas Aquinas (85%)
	3.	Baruch Spinoza (later known as Benedictus) (80%)
	4.	William of Ockham (64%)
	5.	Aristotle (57%)
	6.	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (50%)
	7.	Stoics (50%)
	8.	Plato (46%)
	9.	Jean-Paul Sartre (46%)
	10.	Ayn Rand (45%)
	11.	Epicureans (37%)
12.	Immanuel Kant (36%)
13.	Cynics (35%)
14.	David Hume (35%)
15.	Jeremy Bentham (34%)
16.	John Stuart Mill (30%)
17.	Thomas Hobbes (18%)
18.	Nel Noddings (17%)
19.	Prescriptivism (12%)

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Of the list I'd say I'm familiar with and relatively well "read" (though of course not all their work) in Augustine, Aquinus, Spinoza, Aristotle, Neitzche, Plato, Sartre, Rand, Kant, Mill, and Hobbes. Surprised I didn't register any John Adams or Locke. I'm also pretty into the Gita, Jnana-Yoga, Tao Te Ching, Sun Tzu, and I Ching as well; although it doesn't seem to take eastern philosophy into play? I read Vivekananda or Pantanjali when I really need to calm my Chittam. I dig Advaita Vedanta enough to say I probably have too many hours in it as well as in Alchemical and Hermetic studies. Glad to see I was able to give a shout out to Mill and Hobbes. Love Hate w/ Any Rand. (catch the pun?) Definitely Cynical. I've never touched any Ockham, Noddings, Bentham or Hume.

 

[gwax23]

Those questions gave me a headache I couldnt finish it. Philosophy is not my forte apparently.

 

[beaker]

I don't think philosophy really is my forte either. Some of the questions i was kind of confused by. But i answered to the best of my ability and this is what i got. I'm not really sure what to think of my results. i like that i'm 92% like Ayn Rand. but the others i really don't know much about. I will have to check out at least the top 5 to see how close I really am to them.

1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Thomas Aquinas (93%)
3. Ayn Rand (92%)
4. Epicureans (91%)
5. Jeremy Bentham (79%)
6. Aristotle (78%)
7. Thomas Hobbes (74%)
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (72%)
9. Cynics (65%)
10. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (64%)
11. Stoics (62%)
12. Immanuel Kant (54%)
13. St. Augustine (54%)
14. Plato (54%)
15. Prescriptivism (45%)
16. William of Ockham (40%)
17. David Hume (32%)
18. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (32%)
19. Nel Noddings (17%)

 

[randpaul2016]

1. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (100%)
2. Epicureans (87%)
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (76%)
4. David Hume (73%)
5. Thomas Hobbes (67%)
6. Prescriptivism (66%)
7. John Stuart Mill (63%)
8. Thomas Aquinas (63%)
9. William of Ockham (63%)
10. Aristotle (59%)
11. Stoics (54%)
12. Immanuel Kant (53%)
13. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (52%)
14. Cynics (50%)
15. Plato (49%)
16. Ayn Rand (48%)
17. Jeremy Bentham (42%)
18. St. Augustine (29%)
19. Nel Noddings (27%)

Those questions gave me a headache I couldnt finish it. Philosophy is not my forte apparently.

dude same here lol

 

[eduardo89]

1. St. Augustine (100%)
2. Thomas Aquinas (83%)
3. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (64%)
4. William of Ockham (62%)
5. Plato (61%)
6. Immanuel Kant (51%)
7. Aristotle (48%)
8. Jeremy Bentham (40%)
9. Ayn Rand (40%) YUK!
10. John Stuart Mill (39%)

 

[Qdog]

1. Ayn Rand (100%)
2. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (99%)
3. David Hume (94%)
4. Thomas Hobbes (88%)
5. Stoics (82%)
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (80%)
7. Cynics (76%)
8. Aristotle (54%)
9. Immanuel Kant (52%)
10. Epicureans (51%)

 

[I<3Liberty]

I hope no one on this forum answers A for #10 Haha!

My results:

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[TD]Immanuel Kant (75%)
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[TD]Aristotle (75%)
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[TD]Ayn Rand (71%)
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[TD]Jeremy Bentham (70%)
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[TD]Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza(62%)
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[TD]Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (41%)
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[TD]David Hume (38%)
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[TD]Stoics (38%)
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[TD]Cynics (27%)
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[TD]Nel Noddings (22%)
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[presence]

I don't think philosophy really is my forte either. Some of the questions i was kind of confused by. But i answered to the best of my ability and this is what i got. I'm not really sure what to think of my results. i like that i'm 92% like Ayn Rand. but the others i really don't know much about. I will have to check out at least the top 5 to see how close I really am to them.

1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Thomas Aquinas (93%)
3. Ayn Rand (92%)
4. Epicureans (91%)
5. Jeremy Bentham (79%)
6. Aristotle (78%)
7. Thomas Hobbes (74%)
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (72%)
9. Cynics (65%)
10. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (64%)
11. Stoics (62%)
12. Immanuel Kant (54%)
13. St. Augustine (54%)
14. Plato (54%)
15. Prescriptivism (45%)
16. William of Ockham (40%)
17. David Hume (32%)
18. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (32%)
19. Nel Noddings (17%)

Mill's most noteworthy work is "On Liberty"
On Liberty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <<< READ THIS BOOK

Aquina you might look into
Summa Theologica (Volume Two)
On Prayer and the Contemplative Life

Epicurus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Nature_of_Things


Bentham is a Utilitarian see
http://www.utilitarianism.com/jeremy-bentham/index.html

 

[libertyjam]

Not sure how it got Aquinas at 100%, I can find a lot about Aquinas to not like. In fact if Aristotle and Aquinas were swapped in positions I would happier. Glad that Hobbes is at the bottom of the list, whole thing seems too biased on the religious fruitcakes for my liking.


1. Thomas Aquinas (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (88%)
3. Immanuel Kant (85%)
4. Aristotle (82%)
5. Jeremy Bentham (71%)
6. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (68%)
7. St. Augustine (67%)
8. Epicureans (67%)
9. Stoics (67%)
10. Ayn Rand (66%)
11. Jean-Paul Sartre (61%)
12. Plato (55%)
13. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (47%)
14. David Hume (45%)
15. Nel Noddings (45%)
16. Prescriptivism (41%)
17. William of Ockham (37%)
18. Cynics (33%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (22%)

 

[presence]

Not sure how it got Aquinas at 100%, I can find a lot about Aquinas to not like. In fact if Aristotle and Aquinas were swapped in positions I would happier. Glad that Hobbes is at the bottom of the list, whole thing seems too biased on the religious fruitcakes for my liking.

Take a look at "Rhetoric and Poetics"

 

[gwax23]

Alrite so I decided to actually finish the test. Heres what I got:


1. Ayn Rand (100%) Info & Notes
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (89%) Info & Notes
3. Thomas Hobbes (85%) Info & Notes
4. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (83%) Info & Notes
5. David Hume (78%) Info & Notes
6. Cynics (74%) Info & Notes
7. John Stuart Mill (71%) Info & Notes
8. Immanuel Kant (64%) Info & Notes
9. Jeremy Bentham (60%) Info & Notes
10. Prescriptivism (59%) Info & Notes
11. Epicureans (57%) Info & Notes
12. Stoics (56%) Info & Notes
13. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (52%) Info & Notes
14. Aristotle (42%) Info & Notes
15. William of Ockham (32%) Info & Notes
16. St. Augustine (30%) Info & Notes
17. Thomas Aquinas (30%) Info & Notes
18. Plato (28%) Info & Notes
19. Nel Noddings (25%) Info & Notes

Seems about right. I want to look more into these philosophers and philosophy in general now.

 

[Tod]

Thomas Aquinas (100%)
Aristotle (92%)
St. Augustine (90%)
Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (86%)
William of Ockham (82%)
John Stuart Mill (80%)
Immanuel Kant (71%)
Epicureans (69%)
Jeremy Bentham (63%)
Cynics (51%)
Ayn Rand (50%)
Prescriptivism (44%)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (40%)
Plato (40%)
Nel Noddings (32%)
Jean-Paul Sartre (28%)
Stoics (26%)
Thomas Hobbes (23%)
David Hume (23%)

I didn't care too much for the questions because they made no distinctions about the means by which morality is acted upon. I believe that while one should have the liberty to do as one pleases, that doesn't mean that one should necessarily do as one pleases.

 

[Danan]

1. Immanuel Kant (100%)
2. Ayn Rand (88%)
3. Jean-Paul Sartre (77%)
4. John Stuart Mill (62%)
5. Prescriptivism (58%)
6. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (57%)
7. Aristotle (55%)
8. Stoics (55%)
9. Jeremy Bentham (54%)
10. David Hume (54%)
11. William of Ockham (52%)
12. Thomas Aquinas (47%)
13. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (46%)
14. Cynics (42%)
15. Epicureans (42%)
16. Nel Noddings (40%)
17. Thomas Hobbes (34%)
18. St. Augustine (33%)
19. Plato (18%)

Didn't like the quiz. I had to check the "no opinion" option quite a few times and when I didn't I never felt perfectly comfortable with the answers. Or I felt that two answers were equally true and didn't contradict each other in any way. That being said, Kant and Rand are probably indefinite times better than such assholes like Hobbes or Plato. So there's that...

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

John Stuart Mill 100%.

 

[VIDEODROME]

1. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (100%)
2. Epicureans (98%)
3. John Stuart Mill (97%)
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (95%)
5. Jeremy Bentham (89%)
6. Aristotle (85%)
7. Thomas Aquinas (79%)
8. Ayn Rand (78%)
9. Stoics (78%)
10. Immanuel Kant (72%)
11. Prescriptivism (72%)
12. David Hume (57%)
13. Nel Noddings (57%)
14. Thomas Hobbes (56%) I
15. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (44%)
16. Cynics (40%)
17. William of Ockham (38%)
18. Plato (38%)
19. St. Augustine (36%)

 

[RSLudlum]

I was quite surprised with Rand being at the very top.

1. Ayn Rand (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (94%)
3. Epicureans (94%)
4. Aristotle (74%)
5. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (74%)
6. Prescriptivism (71%)
7. Immanuel Kant (67%)
8. Thomas Aquinas (67%)
9. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (66%)
10. Jeremy Bentham (62%)
11. Cynics (52%)
12. Stoics (52%)
13. Thomas Hobbes (50%)
14. Jean-Paul Sartre (49%)
15. St. Augustine (47%)
16. David Hume (47%)
17. William of Ockham (45%)
18. Plato (36%)
19. Nel Noddings (27%)

 

[Cap]

1. Thomas Aquinas (100 %)
2. John Stuart Mill (99 %)
3. William of Ockham (92 %)
4. St. Augustine (88 %)
5. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (88 %)
6. Epicureans (87 %)
7. Aristotle (73 %)
8. Immanuel Kant (68 %)
9. Jeremy Bentham (63 %)
10. Prescriptivism (59 %)
11. Jean-Paul Sartre (59 %)
12. Ayn Rand (39 %)
13. Thomas Hobbes (31 %)
14. Plato (31 %)
15. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (30 %)
16. David Hume (27 %)
17. Nel Noddings (27 %)
18. Stoics (27 %)
19. Cynics (13 %)

 

[Michael Landon]

Kant and Nietzsche (100%)

- ML