Which philosopher best suits your views? Test

[Suzanimal]

Fun quiz but I'm a little surprised at my results.



1. Immanuel Kant (100%)
2. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (97%)
3. Stoics (97%)
4. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (96%)
5. Ayn Rand (89%)
6. John Stuart Mill (88%)
7. Epicureans (83%)
8. Jean-Paul Sartre (77%)
9. Jeremy Bentham (75%)
10. David Hume (75%)
11. Aristotle (72%)
12. Thomas Aquinas (68%)
13. Thomas Hobbes (63%)
14. Prescriptivism (63%)
15. Cynics (62%)
16. William of Ockham (56%)
17. St. Augustine (45%)
18. Nel Noddings (42%)
19. Plato (24%)

 

[gwax23]

1. Ayn Rand (100%) Info & Notes
2. Thomas Hobbes (75%) Info & Notes
3. David Hume (75%) Info & Notes
4. Cynics (72%) Info & Notes
5. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (72%) Info & Notes
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (70%) Info & Notes
7. Stoics (64%) Info & Notes
8. John Stuart Mill (61%) Info & Notes
9. Aristotle (59%) Info & Notes
10. Immanuel Kant (59%) Info & Notes
11. Epicureans (53%) Info & Notes
12. Plato (48%) Info & Notes
13. Jeremy Bentham (47%) Info & Notes
14. Thomas Aquinas (42%) Info & Notes
15. Prescriptivism (40%) Info & Notes
16. William of Ockham (38%) Info & Notes
17. St. Augustine (32%) Info & Notes
18. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (28%) Info & Notes
19. Nel Noddings (23%)

 

[PaulConventionWV]

1. Immanuel Kant (100%)
2. Thomas Aquinas (88%)
3. St. Augustine (84%)
4. John Stuart Mill (83%)
5. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (78%)
6. Prescriptivism (70%)
7. Aristotle (64%)
8. Jeremy Bentham (64%)
9. William of Ockham (61%)
10. Cynics (50%)
11. Ayn Rand (50%)
12. Nel Noddings (45%)
13. Epicureans (43%)
14. Jean-Paul Sartre (41%)
15. David Hume (38%)
16. Plato (34%)
17. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (32%)
18. Stoics (31%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (6%)

There were at least 3 questions where I didn't like any of the answers. I would also question the legitimacy of the test and its ability to accurately portray and individual's beliefs. For fun, however, I do like Kant and Thomas Aquinas, and I think those two together encapsulate my beliefs somewhat reliably. I'm not a fan of Ayn Rand although I do sympathize with some of her beliefs, and I would expect Thomas Hobbes to be farther up the list.

 

[Lindsey]

1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Epicureans (86%)
3. Jeremy Bentham (83%)
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (77%)
5. Immanuel Kant (68%)
6. Thomas Aquinas (65%)
7. Cynics (50%)
8. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (50%)
9. Thomas Hobbes (49%)
10. Ayn Rand (45%)

 

[ifthenwouldi]

Augustine (100%). All others weren't close.

 

[boneyard bill]

I don't get how anyone could like that hag. She was a decent fiction writer, but that's where her positive traits end.

You really thing she was a decent fiction writer? I only read Atlas Shrugged, but I thought it was awful. Cardboard characters throughout.

 

[boneyard bill]

1. Acquinas
2. Sartre
3. Spinoza
4. Ayn Rand

It really surprised me especially Sartre as no. 2 and Rand at no. 4. I'm not a fan of that Rand. I know nothing at all about Spinoza. I would have thought I would have been somewhere close to Kant, but he was way down. I'm also surprised to see how many members of this site have Acquinas at the top. I guess we have to admit that his influence has had an enduring impact on our culture since most of us seem to be Thomists without even realizing it.

 

[gwax23]

Dont consider this test that credible. Further many of the questions are confusing if your not into philosophy so answering them wrong will lead to strange results.

 

[Occam's Banana]

You really thing she was a decent fiction writer? I only read Atlas Shrugged, but I thought it was awful. Cardboard characters throughout.

Mileages vary. Tastes diverge. Asimov called characterization a "little tin god."

As radically opposed as Rand & Asimov were in their philosphies & attitudes, ideas were the central elements of their stories. For what they were trying to do in their fiction, characterization beyond the "cardboard" would have been a distraction, not an enhancement.

 

[fr33]

You really thing she was a decent fiction writer? I only read Atlas Shrugged, but I thought it was awful. Cardboard characters throughout.

She had her faults like being way too descriptive. What I like most about her fiction is how it accurately predicted so many things that are reality today.

 

[LibForestPaul]

1. Stoics (100%)
2. Immanuel Kant (98%)
3. Baruch (later known as Benedictus) Spinoza (97%)
4. Thomas Aquinas (94%)
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (89%)