phaedrus

Cute

My percentages within these buggers seem to be between 100-40 unlike the other folks who did the test...wonder what means *scratches head*

1. Epicureans (100%)
2. Aristotle (79%)
3. Spinoza (77%)
4. Aquinas (75%)
5. Stoics (75%)
6. Nietzsche (70%)
7. Mill (69%)
8. Hobbes (58%)
9. Hume (58%)
10. Noddings (56%)
11. Sartre (56%)
12. Ockham (54%)
13. Rand (54%)
14. Kant (53%)
15. Plato (51%)
16. Bentham (50%)
17. Cynics (50%)
18. Augustine (41%)
19. Prescriptivism (41%)

Edited to add...

Did you guys check out the other selectors on the site, the philo ones i mean...
<a href="http://www.selectsmart.com/philosophy.html" target="_blank">http://www.selectsmart.com/philosophy.html</a>

Check out this one...<a href="http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=TJPhilosophy" target="_blank">Choose your philosopher </a>

Or even better this one
<a href="http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=philos" target="_blank">Choose your favorite metaphysician </a>

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AtlanticCitySlave

Jesus, Sartre is number one on all of these I take.

Skepticwithachainsaw

Hmm mine are


1. Sartre (100%)
2. Mill (84%)
3. Kant (77%)
4. Bentham (68%)
5. Epicureans (67%)
6. Rand (67%)
7. Prescriptivism (50%)
8. Hobbes (43%)
9. Noddings (42%)
10. Aquinas (41%)
11. Hume (38%)
12. Nietzsche (38%)
13. Spinoza (37%)
14. Ockham (29%)
15. Aristotle (28%)
16. Cynics (28%)
17. Stoics (25%)
18. Augustine (24%)
19. Plato (21%)

Well Sartre seems about right for me but Kant is way too high... Thankfully Plato, Augustine and Aristole are pretty low down...

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braces_for_impact

1. Rand (100%)
2. Stoics (87%)
3. Aristotle (75%)
4. Epicureans (72%)
5. Hume (70%)
6. Sartre (68%)
7. Mill (67%)
8. Aquinas (64%)
9. Nietzsche (63%)
10. Kant (60%)
11. Spinoza (55%)
12. Bentham (48%)
13. Hobbes (48%)
14. Plato (47%)
15. Cynics (45%)
16. Augustine (44%)
17. Prescriptivism (24%)
18. Ockham (18%)
19. Noddings (12%)

David Bowden

1. Sartre (100%)
2. Hume (74%)
3. Aquinas (72%)
4. Kant (72%)
5. Stoics (70%)
6. Rand (64%)
7. Bentham (58%)
8. Aristotle (57%)
9. Hobbes (57%)
10. Nietzsche (57%)
11. Mill (56%)
12. Cynics (53%)
13. Spinoza (50%)
14. Noddings (40%)
15. Plato (38%)
16. Ockham (36%)
17. Augustine (28%)
18. Prescriptivism (28%)
19. Epicureans (22%)

Just for the heck of it, I tried answering only the final question, "12. VIRTUOUS PERSON A virtuous person can be described best as:" with "b) Strong, powerful and rational"; these were the results:

1. Plato (100%)
2. Rand (100%)
3. Aristotle (90%)
4. Hobbes (90%)
5. Hume (80%)
6. Sartre (70%)
7. Nietzsche (60%)
(8. et al.: 0%)

I wonder how that test weighs each philosopher/school for each answer? And, how long did such a test take to make up?

-Wanderer

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Jayhawker Soule

• Stoics (100%)
• Hume (83%)
• Kant (77%)
• Sartre (75%)
• Aquinas (72%)
• Hobbes (72%)
• Nietzsche (72%)
• Aristotle (70%)
• Bentham (69%)
• Plato (62%)
• Rand (61%)
• Mill (58%)
• Noddings (54%)
• Spinoza (51%)
• Cynics (50%)
• Epicureans (41%)
• Prescriptivism (41%)
• Augustine (25%)
• Ockham (14%)

Why do I feel like I've betrayed Ockham?

vixstile

1. Hume (100%)
2. Nietzsche (92%)
3. Stoics (80%)
4. Sartre (75%)
5. Hobbes (74%)
6. Cynics (67%)
7. Rand (62%)
8. Spinoza (60%)
9. Aristotle (46%)
10. Augustine (41%)
11. Noddings (40%)
12. Aquinas (39%)
13. Plato (38%)
14. Epicureans (36%)
15. Kant (36%)
16. Mill (30%)
17. Bentham (24%)
18. Prescriptivism (16%)
19. Ockham (14%)

NialScorva

Hrm, I would have chosen Hume as the philosopher who's influenced me the most, but every quiz I took had Satre come out on top. Maybe I should go read some Satre finally.

Nira

Sartre 100%
Kant 67 %
Bentham
Mill
Hobbes
Hume
Epicureans
Spinoza
Nietzsche
Aquinas

I have taken several similar tests before, and Sartre is always at top. About time I read something of his.

WJ

Anyone who is selfish gets a high mark for Rand as I so humbly discovered. However, I don't think that makes you a true Randian moral objectivist in a blanket statement... I'm going to try answering differently, that particular question relative to self and see...


A score of 100% Rand seems only to indicate that, which was specific to that particular question.


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