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Which Philosopher are You? - A Quiz
    #19085311 - 11/04/13 01:04 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Despite the typos, and at times, poor selection of responses, I found this amusing and came in with Immanuel Kant at 89%, Plato was the next percentage at 77%. I thought I'd come out as Plato. :shrug: I can't complain about the inadequacy of the test though. I've also long been interested in Kierkegaard, whom I first read in college, maybe 1974, and later in seminary, and whom I last read this summer (The Concept of Anxiety) - book I began a few years ago and completed this summer when I was going through a lot of anxiety.

"I ask: What am I supposed to do if I do not want to be a philosopher, I am well aware that I like other philosophers will have to mediate the past. For one thing, this is no answer to my question 'What am I supposed to do?' for even if I had the most brilliant philosophical mind there ever was, there must be something more I have to do besides sitting and contemplating the past. Second, I am a married man and far from being a philosophical brain, but in all respect I turn to the devotees of this science to find out what I am supposed to do. But I receive no answer, for philosophy mediates the past and is in the past-philosophy hastens so fast into the past that, as a poet says of an antiquarian, only his coattails remain in the present. See, here you are at one with the philosophers. What unites you is that life comes to a halt. For the philosopher, world history is ended, and he mediates. This accounts for the repugnant spectacle that belongs to the order of the day in our age-to see young people who are able to mediate Christianity and paganism, who are able to play games with the titanic forces of history, and who are unable to tell a simple human being what he has to do here in life, nor do they know what they themselves have to do."  - Soren Kierkegaard in Either/Or Vol II, Hong, pp. 171ff


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #19085520 - 11/04/13 01:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

The answers should be broader.

Unlike you, I scored:

0%
Immanuel Kant

Your Result: Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)

72%

The world is absurd. No facts govern it. We live well once we truly accept the world's absurdity. YOU give our life's meaning, and YOU control your world. (see Nietzsche for very closely tied beliefs) --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.

66%
W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein

62%
Nietzsche


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #19085584 - 11/04/13 02:08 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Your Result: Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)
87%


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: Icelander]
    #19085724 - 11/04/13 02:41 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I got 78% Sartre/camus...I gotta refresh my memory on some of these guys. They are pretty cool and I forgot a lot about them since college


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #19085778 - 11/04/13 02:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I scored Quine / Late Wittgenstein. 81%

Fun lil' quiz, but it doesn't really say too much. :lol:


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #19085806 - 11/04/13 03:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Nietzsche - 70%

There is no provable absolute truth. At the bottom of every philosophy there is some inspired assumption which the philosopher defends with reasons they have sought after the fact. There is no rational principle behind our world. The most noble goal in life is to create art. To live well is to be art. If life is a dream, "I will dream on!" --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #19085949 - 11/04/13 03:41 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

90% Satre/Camus. Not sure I agree. :shrug:


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: Cactilove]
    #19086256 - 11/04/13 04:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Quine / Late Wittgenstein 88%

Fun but some of the options didn't really make sense.


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #19086333 - 11/04/13 05:10 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I answered the first two questions and then hit the philosophize button,
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Your Result: W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein

There is no provable absolute truth. The way you see things is dependant on your language. Truths exist only within a language, and change as the language does. --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.




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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: falcon]
    #19086408 - 11/04/13 05:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

That's because the default of all the answers tries to average them down to 50%. Since there aren't as many questions pertaining to that answer group, it naturally has a slightly higher percentage to compensate. There were only two real questions that pertained to those philosophers specifically. Answer the Mathematics question as "web of our beliefs" (Quine's words) and the Language one as our "limits" (Wittgenstein) and you'll probably pull out with the same answer of Quine / Late Wittgenstein.


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: r72rock]
    #19086536 - 11/04/13 05:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Willard Van Orman Quine

I don't know him. Guess I have some reading to do.


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #19086546 - 11/04/13 05:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

88% Nietzsche :headbang:


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: GoldenEye]
    #19086552 - 11/04/13 05:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

What happened to the middle Wittgenstein? He seems to have changed views quite radically because I was nowhere near the early Wittgenstein category but scored highest for the late Wittgenstein category...


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: r72rock]
    #19086554 - 11/04/13 05:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Your Result: Aristotle 74%
Truth does not exist in some transcendent realm. We get to truth by applying reason to the physical world. The world follows logic and commonsense. Science if done properly is not to far from philosophy. --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.
Sartre/Camus (late existentialists) 65%
Early Wittgenstein / Positivists 65%




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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: Rahz]
    #19086810 - 11/04/13 06:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Your Result: W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein

Followed by:

Early Wittgenstein / Positivists, Aristotle, Sartre/Camus (late existentialists), Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, & then Plato (strict rationalists) bringing up the rear.


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: Penelope_Tree]
    #19086953 - 11/04/13 07:23 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

i got Aristotle.


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: Penelope_Tree]
    #19087041 - 11/04/13 07:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Nietzsche 84%, but many of the answers I was forced to choose..I would have rather had a few more different choices or write in my own conclusions..


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: Kingofdiamonds]
    #19087080 - 11/04/13 07:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

90% Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: hTx]
    #19087142 - 11/04/13 07:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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hTx said:
Nietzsche 84%, but many of the answers I was forced to choose..I would have rather had a few more different choices or write in my own conclusions..




I felt the same way, and yes, I'm a Nietzsche too :lol:


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Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #19087152 - 11/04/13 07:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

:lol:

must be a Nietzsche thing :tongue2:


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