|
MarkostheGnostic
Elder



Registered: 12/09/99
Posts: 14,279
Loc: South Florida
Last seen: 3 years, 27 days
|
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. 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
http://www.gotoquiz.com/which_philosopher_are_you
Edited by MarkostheGnostic (05/11/14 11:14 AM)
|
liquidlounge

Registered: 12/22/10
Posts: 9,256
|
|
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
-------------------- As far as I assume to know...
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
|
Your Result: Sartre/Camus (late existentialists) 87%
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
|
Universaleyeni
Friend



Registered: 04/18/13
Posts: 528
Loc: Fl
Last seen: 1 year, 11 months
|
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
|
r72rock
Maybe so. Maybe not.




Registered: 01/06/09
Posts: 1,327
Loc: Chicago
|
|
I scored Quine / Late Wittgenstein. 81%
Fun lil' quiz, but it doesn't really say too much.
-------------------- Current favorite candy: Peanut Butter Kisses
|
The Phleg
Big Dick Chakra



Registered: 03/07/10
Posts: 14,473
Loc: Uncanny Valley
|
|
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.
-------------------- You wanna get high? Drink tap water. --------------------
|
Cactilove
Controversial Mystic


Registered: 02/17/11
Posts: 4,826
|
|
90% Satre/Camus. Not sure I agree.
-------------------- Orgone Conclusion...Bringing OTD to PS&P since 2007.
|
PocketLady



Registered: 01/18/10
Posts: 1,773
|
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.
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
|
falcon



Registered: 04/01/02
Posts: 8,015
Last seen: 6 hours, 1 minute
|
|
I answered the first two questions and then hit the philosophize button,
Quote:
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.
|
r72rock
Maybe so. Maybe not.




Registered: 01/06/09
Posts: 1,327
Loc: Chicago
|
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.
-------------------- Current favorite candy: Peanut Butter Kisses
|
GoldenEye
...


Registered: 05/24/13
Posts: 4,340
Loc: Amsterdam
Last seen: 7 months, 12 days
|
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.
|
Middleman

Registered: 07/11/99
Posts: 8,399
|
|
88% Nietzsche
|
GoldenEye
...


Registered: 05/24/13
Posts: 4,340
Loc: Amsterdam
Last seen: 7 months, 12 days
|
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...
Edited by GoldenEye (11/04/13 05:56 PM)
|
Rahz
Alive Again



Registered: 11/10/05
Posts: 9,252
|
Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: r72rock]
#19086554 - 11/04/13 05:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
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%
-------------------- rahz comfort pleasure power love truth awareness peace "You’re not looking close enough if you can only see yourself in people who look like you." —Ayishat Akanbi
|
Penelope_Tree
Shamanic Panic



Registered: 07/31/09
Posts: 8,535
Loc: magic sugarcastle
|
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.
--------------------
full blown human
|
Kingofdiamonds
Stranger


Registered: 02/02/10
Posts: 405
Last seen: 8 years, 3 days
|
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.
--------------------
|
hTx
(:



Registered: 03/27/13
Posts: 5,724
Loc: Space-time
|
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..
-------------------- zen by age ten times six hundred lifetimes Light up the darkness.
|
itsaconspiracy
governments worst nightmare



Registered: 03/26/13
Posts: 2,807
Loc: florida
Last seen: 2 years, 5 months
|
|
90% Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)
-------------------- ("i'm not a criminal i just like stuff thats not mine") "bender"
 
|
CosmicJoke
happy mutant


Registered: 04/05/00
Posts: 10,848
Loc: Portland, OR
|
Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: hTx]
#19087142 - 11/04/13 07:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
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
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
|
hTx
(:



Registered: 03/27/13
Posts: 5,724
Loc: Space-time
|
Re: Wich Philosopher are You? - A Quiz [Re: CosmicJoke]
#19087152 - 11/04/13 07:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|

must be a Nietzsche thing
-------------------- zen by age ten times six hundred lifetimes Light up the darkness.
|
|