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Ethical Philosophy Quiz

bobhikes

Nondetermined
Premium Member
100% Match and I can agree with these points.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

  • When we choose something, we affirm the value of our choice because we have chosen it above other choices
  • When we choose something for ourselves, we should choose it for all people.
  • We must be consistent in our interpretations of moral situations regardless of whom the agent is.
  • Logic cannot help us in specific situations
  • Making conscious moral choices is more significant than consistently following moral guidelines
  • The conflict between the interests of two people is in the end, irresolvable
 

निताइ dasa

Nitai's servant's servant
I got Plato 100% and 92% Aquinas. Sad I'm not as close to dear Kant. I generally agree with most of St Aquinas's points though:

  • All life has a purpose
  • Meeting this purpose allows one to be happy.
  • Happiness is to be found in the love of God.
  • God's grace providing entrance into heaven creates the highest form of human happiness.
  • Short of heaven, a person can achieve a more limited form of happiness through a life of virtue and friendship.
  • Morality is not determined by the arbitrary will of God.
  • Morality is derived from human nature and the activities that are objectively suited to it.
  • The difference between right and wrong can be appreciated through the use of reason and reflection.
  • Religious reflection may supplement the use of reason and reflection to determine right from wrong.
  • Societies must enact laws to ensure the correct application of moral reasoning.
  • Human nature is good because God made it good.
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
At best, I found the questions incomplete or irrelevant (even when I found I could select a choice, I found the choice was neither important nor unimportant enough to move the indicator).

C'mon...either/or on the death penalty?

Anyway, my results:

1.Thomas Aquinas (0%
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2. Aristotle (0%)
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3. St. Augustine (0%)
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4. Jeremy Bentham (0%)
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5. Cynics (0%)
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6. Epicureans (0%)
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7. Thomas Hobbes (0%)
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8. David Hume (0%)
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9. Immanuel Kant (0%)
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10. John Stuart Mill (0%)
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11. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (0%)
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12. Nel Noddings (0%)
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13. William of Ockham (0%)
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14. Plato (0%)
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15. Prescriptivism (0%)
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16. Ayn Rand (0%)
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17. Jean-Paul Sartre (0%)
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18. Benedictus Spinoza (0%)
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19. Stoics (0%)
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20. William James (0%)
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21. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (0%)

As a pragmatist, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised I don't match up to any of these choices...but ZERO percent??
 

Willamena

Just me
Premium Member
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 100%
Thomas Aquinas 94%
David Hume 93%
Stoics 93%

Sadly:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 0%
 

A Vestigial Mote

Well-Known Member
I was also 100% Jean-Paul Sartre. Followed by John Stuart Mill (95%) and Thomas Aquinas (86%). The questions on this seem very well thought out. A few of them had fewer options than I would have thought were more necessary. Particularly the "MAN'S LAW" one. Only two options before having to throw your hands up and "dislike" all answer choices.
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
Ah! That's more like it! Somehow, when I took this the first time, I was interrupted and left for a few minutes...and apparently something happened to wipe out my initial answers/results.

I have retaken the quiz; here are the results:

1. Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)
2. John Stuart Mill (82%)
3. Thomas Aquinas (72%)
4. Jeremy Bentham (70%)
5. Epicureans (61%)
6. Immanuel Kant (60%)
7. Aristotle (57%)
8. Ayn Rand (50%)
9. St. Augustine (47%)
10. Nel Noddings (35%)
11. Prescriptivism (35%)
12. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (33%)
13. William of Ockham (31%)
14. Benedictus Spinoza (29%)
15. Thomas Hobbes (24%)
16. David Hume (24%)
17. Plato (24%)
18. Stoics (21%)
19. William James (17%)
20. Cynics (12%)
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21. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (0%
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
I thought you were just being rascally.


I guess we are not very big on turning our backs on society.
While I am sometimes the rascal, not this time...and while doing what one believes is right can be indeed very lonely sometimes, in order that we may have a society at all, we need to consider the needs and beliefs of others, individually and as a whole:cool:
 

Deathbydefault

Apistevist Asexual Atheist
Aristotle, for me.

Your Complete Results:
1. Aristotle (100%)
2. Cynics (99%)
3. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (98%)
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (95%)
5. David Hume (94%)

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    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
  • The life of virtue is rewarding for the individual and the community.
  • The essence of a thing does not exist independent of the thing.
  • There is no completely universal idea of "the good."
  • There is an individualized ideal form for all living things.
  • In living in accordance with their true nature, humans will find the most enjoyment out of reasoning.
  • An investigation of human nature can reveal how humans ought to act.
  • Humans have a pre-defined purpose.
  • People can have variations on the best way to exist in order to meet their purpose.
  • The mean between the extremes of any given characteristic is the ideal.
  • The rule of the "Golden Mean" is not to be applied mechanically
  • Aristotle discusses having practical knowledge as being able to have the right means to one's action and the right ends
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
I don't think this quiz knew what to do with me, because the top result I got doesn't fit me at all. Most of the questions I couldn't answer, because none of the responses reflected how I approach things.
 
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