I found another interesting ethical philosophy survey.
My Results:
1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (92%)
3. Ayn Rand (85%)
4. Nietzsche (83%)
5. Epicureans (80%)
6. Kant (80%)
7. Thomas Hobbes (80%)
8. Jeremy Bentham (79%)
9. David Hume (76%)
10. Cynics (67%)
11. Prescriptivism (67%)
12. Stoics (67%)
13. Nel Noddings (55%)
14. Aquinas (47%)
15. Spinoza (43%)
16. Ockham (41%)
17. Aristotle (40%)
18. Plato (32%)
19. St. Augustine (25%)
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So your Sartre eh? Thats interesting. Have you read Sartre? Heh he is all about Free Will.
this was an interesting test... i'm apparently ayn rand... thought she was a psychologist.
Ayn Rand started Objectivism. I'm not sure exactly what that is. I think she's more famous for her fiction than for her philosophy. She wrote 'Atlas Shrugged' and 'Fountainhead'. I have not read either of them. I read something else of hers when I was a teenager but I forget now what it was. I liked it. I think she did study philosophy somewhat, but I also think she considered herself a writer primarily. I could be wrong.
My personal belief system apparently correlates well with a philosophy I'm not very familiar with, and yours correlates well with one that neither of us are very familiar with ...
I think that's the nature of what I shall call the philosophic personality. Once we are reasonably familiar with a system of thought, we are more likely than not to find some problem with it. That must be why our personal beliefs are in line with philosophies we are not so familiar with. If we were very familiar with the way we are thinking, we wouldn't think the way we do!
How twisted is that?
I'm just kidding, of course. The test design is surely flawed.
My top three are:
1. Aquinas (100%)
2. Jeremy Bentham (97%)
3. John Stuart Mill (94%)
I'm not surprised that my #1 is a religious figure. I am a little surprised that it is Aquinas, because he is the preeminent Roman Catholic theologian. I have never been Roman Catholic nor had any inclination to be.
I did the "click here for info" thing and here is one of the statements about Aquinas: "Morality is derived from human nature and the activities that are objectively suited to it."
That is a pretty good description of what I was thinking as I was filling out the survey. I do believe in God, but I believe God cannot be reduced to fit into our puny systems of morality. More important, in my opinion, is to be true to your own human nature. What that means will differ from person to person, since we are all differently situated, and we all have different capacities that we should use for the common good.
Thus Aquinas's statement is apt. Not that we should yield to our worst impulses, of course. The "common good" is also key to my moral position.
I have no idea why I scored such a high correspondence to Bentham and Mill. I don't think I am utilitarian in my views — not in the slightest.
Q
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