Which philosopher best suits your views? Test

1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Jeremy Bentham (92%)
3. Immanuel Kant (76%)
4. Epicureans (74%)
5. Prescriptivism (67%)
6. Thomas Aquinas (63%)
7. Cynics (63%)
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (61%)
9. Ayn Rand (53%)
10. Thomas Hobbes (49%)
11. William of Ockham (45%)
12. Plato (43%)
13. St. Augustine (40%)
14. Nel Noddings (40%)
15. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (40%)
16. Aristotle (32%)
17. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (22%)
18. Stoics (20%)
19. David Hume (17%)
 
Was surprised to see Ayn Rand at #2 on my results, considering that I do not like her, at all.

Your Complete Results:
1. Stoics (100%)
2. Ayn Rand (76%)
3. Immanuel Kant (73%)
4. Thomas Aquinas (68%)
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (61%)
6. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (59%)
7. John Stuart Mill (58%)
8. Prescriptivism (54%)
9. Cynics (50%)
10. Aristotle (47%)
11. William of Ockham (43%)
12. Plato (43%)
13. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (41%)
14. David Hume (37%)
15. St. Augustine (36%)
16. Jeremy Bentham (34%)
17. Epicureans (31%)
18. Thomas Hobbes (28%)
19. Nel Noddings (16%)

And who the hell is this Nel Noddings?
 
eduardo89 said:
I don't get how anyone could like that hag. She was a decent fiction writer, but that's where her positive traits end.
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I don't consider her a philosopher, more of a hack in my opinion. Decent writer though--if you have nothing else good to read.
 
1. Ayn Rand (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (67%)
3. Cynics (65%)
4. Plato (60%)
5. Thomas Aquinas (57%)
6. Aristotle (56%)
7. Thomas Hobbes (51%)
8. William of Ockham (51%)
9. Jean-Paul Sartre (51%)
10. Immanuel Kant (45%)
11. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (45%)
12. Prescriptivism (45%)
13. Epicureans (41%)
14. St. Augustine (40%)
15. Jeremy Bentham (38%)
16. David Hume (37%)
17. Nel Noddings (32%)
18. Stoics (29%)
19. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (20%)
 
Danan said:
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...
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I noticed exactly the same thing (two options under the same question that I thought were agreeable and not mutually exclusive), right off the bat.

So I didn't even bother to take the thing. A "philosophy" metric that incorporates false dilemmas ... SMH.

amy31416 said:
Was surprised to see Ayn Rand at #2 on my results, considering that I do not like her, at all.
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The biggest problem with Rand isn't so much what she said (though there are some problems there as well), but how she said it. It often seems she went out of her way to find the most strident and disagreeably unappealing way of putting things - even things that would otherwise be unobjectionable.
 
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I answered all of the questions, some I did not like the answers but I picked the closest one I could find. Really surprised by the list it gave me.

1. Plato (100%)
2. Thomas Aquinas (97%)
3. Ayn Rand (93%)
4. John Stuart Mill (93%)
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (85%)
6. Stoics (81%)
7. St. Augustine (78%)
8. Aristotle (76%)
9. Jeremy Bentham (76%)
10. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (72%)
11. Epicureans (68%)
12. Cynics (62%)
13. David Hume (62%)
14. Immanuel Kant (59%)
15. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (56%)
16. Prescriptivism (53%)
17. Thomas Hobbes (50%)
18. William of Ockham (43%)
19. Nel Noddings (26%)
 
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QuickZ06 said:
I answered all of the questions, some I did not like the answers but I picked the closest one I could find. Really surprised by the list it gave me.

I found it really weak in eastern and libertarian philosophy. It really focused on western religious philosophy.
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presence said:
I found it really weak in eastern and libertarian philosophy. It really focused on western religious philosophy.
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Yep. Where is the Dao at? And it put Friedrich Nietzsche lower than Jean-Paul Sartre for me, when I in fact enjoy Nietzsche over Sartre.
 
1. Thomas Aquinas (100 %)
2. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (100 %)
3. Stoics (89 %)
4. Immanuel Kant (79 %)
5. St. Augustine (78 %)
6. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (75 %)
 
Took the quiz for fun.. Not something I've ever studied, so not familiar with it. I did read a little on Baruch and Stoics (Wiki) after the quiz. Interesting stuff.

1. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (100%)
2. Stoics (99%)
3. Thomas Aquinas (86%)
4. Epicureans (74%)
5. Cynics (67%)
6. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (66%)
7. Immanuel Kant (64%)
8. Aristotle (63%)
9. Nel Noddings (59%)
10. Jean-Paul Sartre (59%)
11. Thomas Hobbes (58%)
12. John Stuart Mill (55%)
13. Jeremy Bentham (54%)
14. David Hume (48%)
15. Plato (48%)
16. St. Augustine (42%)
17. Ayn Rand (39%)
18. William of Ockham (38%)
19. Prescriptivism (32%)
 
EDIT: I'm pretty sure I misunderstood the questions. After posting my results, I went back and read the summaries of the philosophers and noticed that some are spot on and some where way off. List deleted.
 
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1. Ayn Rand (100%)
2. David Hume (91%)
3. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (83%)
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (78%)
5. Aristotle (74%)
6. Stoics (67%)
7. Thomas Hobbes (65%)
8. Cynics (62%)
9. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (52%)
10. Thomas Aquinas (49%)
11. John Stuart Mill (47%)
12. Immanuel Kant (45%)
13. Nel Noddings (44%)
14. St. Augustine (40%)
15. Plato (40%)
16. Jeremy Bentham (39%)
17. Epicureans (29%)
18. William of Ockham (27%)
19. Prescriptivism (17%)

Outside of the quiz, my beliefs align most with John Stuart Mill, Ayn Rand, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Aristotle.
 
I'm an anarcho-capitalist and I got Ayn Rand at a 100%. Considering Ayn Rand despises anarchy, I think the quiz needs some tweaking.
 
1. St. Augustine (100%)
2. Thomas Aquinas (96%)
3. Epicureans (87%)
4. William of Ockham (79%)
5. Ayn Rand (79%)
6. John Stuart Mill (75%)
7. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (68%)
8. Immanuel Kant (68%)
9. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (62%)
10. Aristotle (61%)
11. Jean-Paul Sartre (59%)
12. Jeremy Bentham (57%)
13. Cynics (55%)
14. Plato (54%)
15. Stoics (53%)
16. Prescriptivism (51%)
17. David Hume (48%)
18. Thomas Hobbes (46%)
19. Nel Noddings (22%)
 
1. Immanuel Kant (100%)
2. Jean-Paul Sartre (98%)
3. John Stuart Mill (88%)
4. Ayn Rand (88%)
5. Prescriptivism (75%)
6. Epicureans (72%) 7. Jeremy Bentham (67%)
8. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (63%) 9. Thomas Aquinas (60%)
10. Aristotle (60%)
11. Stoics (60%)
12. David Hume (52%)
13. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (51%)
 
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