Philosophy

[andrewducker]

Of course, I now need to go away and review what all these people believed and then shriek in horror at who I just associated myself with.

1. Sartre (100%)
2. Bentham (91%)
3. Epicureans (78%)
4. Kant (78%)
5. Mill (67%)
6. Spinoza (63%)
7. Stoics (57%)
8. Hobbes (55%)
9. Aquinas (53%)
10. Aristotle (53%)
11. Noddings (52%)
12. Nietzsche (51%)
13. Hume (49%)
14. Prescriptivism (47%)
15. Rand (47%)
16. Plato (39%)
17. Augustine (31%)
18. Cynics (23%)
19. Ockham (19%)

Quiz here.

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[andrewducker]

Here's my thoughts on the people on the list, based on descriptions here:

Aquinas: religious nutball
Aristotle: Believes there is an absolute right and wrong. Is therefore wrong
Augustine: religious nutball
Ayn Rand: Again, believes in absolute morals. Very strange idea
Cynicism: They forget that to rebel against something is to define yourself by it
Simone de Beauvoir: Looks interesting, but not enough info.
Sartre: Thinks that consistency is the important bit and so forgets that rules are there to produce ends, not as an end. He's right about conflicts though.
Kant: Believes in a priori knowledge and universal application. Neither seem like useful concepts to me.
Nietzche: Believes in free will. I don't even know what that is any more.
Bentham: Thinks pleasure can be quantified, which means it must somehow be absolute. Another strange idea.
Epicurianism: I likes this one. Except that I sometimes like being passionate.
Nel Noddings: Sadly, I'm not a woman. The word "should" is used. Never liked that word.
Hobbes: I like his ideas. I'm not sure the 'sovereign' has to be literal though.
Hume: I agree with the first 3 statements and would like to believe the 4th.
Mill: Aah, the liberty obsessive.
Ockham: Religious nutball
Plato: Another idealist. And he believes in the soul too.
Spinoza: Well, I agree with determinism. Not enough there to agree more.
Stoicism: Was doing well until stating that reason can lead to moral bases.
Utilitarianism: If I had a detector capable and time enough to measure all the pleasure in the universe, then this might be useful. But I doubt it.

So, I appear to be with Hume. Time to get some reading done.

[protempore.livejournal.com]

I scored this:
1. Stoics (100%)
2. Nietzsche (94%)
3. Hume (90%)
4. Sartre (83%)
5. Cynics (77%)
6. Kant (64%)
7. Spinoza (62%)
8. Rand (58%)
9. Hobbes (57%)
10. Augustine (55%)
11. Noddings (50%)
12. Aquinas (41%)
13. Ockham (38%)
14. Epicureans (36%)
15. Aristotle (34%)
16. Plato (31%)
17. Bentham (27%)
18. Mill (27%)
19. Prescriptivism (11%)


and said all of this . . .

Aquinas - Summed up in the phrase "Human nature is good because God made it good". Shrugs off true open-minded philosophy for spiritual purpose.
Aristotle - All nature is dependent on all nature; nothing is free from anything else, it is all part of one general average - and humans can find their own purpose through exampination of humanity (and this probably will extend to humanity finding its place by studying the rest of nature)
Augustine - People are inherently evil and must seek salvation. He defines happiness as oneness with god. Everything in between is just a battle of good vs. evil.
Ayn Rand - Own interests should be ultimate goal of our actions. Believes in free will, and yet, believes that moral standards are objective. Um?
Cynicism - All is worthless. Everything boils down to societic abandonment and self-salvation.
Simone de Beauvoir - Probably some sort of slave or lower class citizen at some point, her focus was freedom and anti-opression; with a belief in concrete morality, vs. abstract.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Focussed on consitency; approaching all like scenerios samely and wishing for all what one wishes for themself --pretty much all about being happy inside. If you always do the same thing, you don't have to wonder which was better . . . et al
Immanuel Kant - Morality is not so much defined by right or wrong as much as its origin; it should be out of a sense of duty. He more or less used philosophy to rationalize bandwagon mindsets.
Nietsche - Strength, and passion; in the sense of total self-reliance, independent of god or men with special adversion to society.
Bentham - "Nature placed humans under two states: pain and pleasure." -- I think that's about all that ran through his head and everything else was inherent.
Epicureanism - Whatever it takes to be passively pleased.
Noddings - Ladies lib with hippy undertones.
Hobbes - any object of desire can be defined as 'good', and I'm glad he mentioned it, one must 'live under a social contract to have peace'. He was wise enough to notice that man's voluntary actions are aimed at self-pleasure and self-preservation.
Hume - While reason will get you from point a to point be, only passion will determine/achieve a goal. Sympathy and passion make his world go round.
Mill - Not even much of a philosopher, just some guy who believed in liberty. Probably had money . . . lots.
Ockham - Faith is the way to go, philosophy is of the devil, He was a monk.
Plato - Put the intelligent in command, let everyone else labor
Prescriptivism - Morality, morality, morality
Spinoza - Determinism.
Stoicism - Can best be summed up in the eternal words of Epictetus "There are two things, those which are under your control and those which are not. You should not concern yourself with those that are not." At least his branch of Stoicism, which is the only one I've had much interest in.
Utilitarianism - Think only about the masses. I'd've named it futilitarianism, but . . . that's me.