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Ethical Philosophy Quiz
Topic Started: Nov 4 2009, 12:38 PM (1,006 Views)
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flumes
Nov 4 2009, 10:09 PM
Rhadamanthus
Nov 4 2009, 07:39 PM
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Nov 4 2009, 07:28 PM
Rhadamanthus
Nov 4 2009, 07:25 PM
Well, I'm not going to try to convince either of you about what is important - I'll just register my disagreement.
Then I shall register my disagreement of your disagreement.
I shouldn't, but its too tempting.

I shall register my disagreement with your disagrement with my initial disagreement.

:o
This could end bad! :lol: :unsure:

I shall register my disagreement with your disagreement to his disagreement to your disagreement to my original point.

...

Honestly though, Philosophy isn't my cup of tea. I think ethics was a good class to take mainly because I learned about forming a strong, sound argument. Besides that, with regards to the arguments formed by philosophical greats, I could care less. I'd much rather devote studying to developing a product or service that will help me gain wealth, and also meet peoples demands. The process of doing so, I am confident, will make me happy. I won't kill to achieve that goal... Morality achieved! :rolleyes:
That's genius!

Have you ever thought about becoming a philosopher?
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1. Spinoza (100%)
2. Stoics (95%)
3. Kant (87%)
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (84%)
5. Aquinas (77%)
6. David Hume (77%)
7. John Stuart Mill (75%)
8. Nietzsche (74%)
9. Prescriptivism (72%)
10. Ayn Rand (66%)
11. Thomas Hobbes (61%)
12. St. Augustine (54%)
13. Epicureans (53%)
14. Aristotle (51%)
15. Jeremy Bentham (50%)
16. Plato (46%)
17. Cynics (44%)
18. Nel Noddings (43%)
19. Ockham (26%)

Interesting, I think.
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Al Araam
Nov 4 2009, 06:39 PM
My question is this: is it people that are unduly biased towards Aquinas or the quiz itself? Also, I felt like a lot of those questions didn't have an answer that was in line with my beliefs, so my results are very much approximate.
You could rate your answers as being of high, medium or low importance.

If you set all the questions where there wasn't an appropriate answer to "low" and set all the ones you felt strongly about to "high" you might see more accurate results.
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Thou shalt not disagree with me. Philosophy is important, and you should study it for the joy of learning. Now shut up and read your Kant!
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Because these are definitely the sorts of philosophical questions that people have undoubtedly already fully considered and know the best answer to that applies to themselves and society. I haven't read through the topic, but as I took this quiz I found it simply difficult to answer most of these questions. If anyone, bar NONE are able to answer these without more than a second thought, than you should really reconsider your life. If you feel complacent with any form of moral authority, than I'm going to go ahead and call you an incorrigible. There's probably no getting a point across to you.

That said, I could probably take this quiz a dozen times and get different answers.


1. Epicureans (100%) Books, etc. Information link
2. Jeremy Bentham (72%) Books, etc. Information link
3. John Stuart Mill (72%) Books, etc. Information link
4. Kant (67%) Books, etc. Information link
5. Aristotle (59%) Books, etc. Information link
6. Jean-Paul Sartre (58%) Books, etc. Information link
7. Aquinas (52%) Books, etc. Information link
8. Stoics (51%) Books, etc. Information link
9. Prescriptivism (51%) Books, etc. Information link
10. Spinoza (51%) Books, etc. Information link
11. Ayn Rand (50%) Books, etc. Information link
12. Nietzsche (42%) Books, etc. Information link
13. Thomas Hobbes (42%) Books, etc. Information link
14. Cynics (41%) Books, etc. Information link
15. David Hume (31%) Books, etc. Information link
16. Plato (31%) Books, etc. Information link
17. Nel Noddings (30%) Books, etc. Information link
18. Ockham (27%) Books, etc. Information link
19. St. Augustine (18%) Books, etc. Information link






EDIT: I don't really mind Epicureanism. It's rather in line with my view of hedonism being positive if harnessed correctly. I find that writing is one of the greatest pleasures of all time, and I'm not burdening anyone with it.
Edited by Ulgania, Nov 5 2009, 10:04 AM.
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I'm somewhat surprised by my result, but I suppose it means I have the right thinking, I just need to take the right actions.

St. Augustine (100%)
Kant (82%)
Stoics (75%)
Spinoza (73%)
Aquinas (69%)
Plato (69%)
Jean-Paul Sartre (56%)
Nietzsche (56%)
Ockham (56%)
David Hume (49%)
Ayn Rand (47%)
Jeremy Bentham (42%)
Cynics (40%)
Nel Noddings (37%)
John Stuart Mill (36%)
Prescriptivism (36%)
Aristotle (30%)
Epicureans (17%)
Thomas Hobbes (13%)
Edited by Sedulius, Nov 5 2009, 03:24 PM.
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Sedulius
Nov 5 2009, 03:21 PM
I'm somewhat surprised by my result, but I suppose it means I have the right thinking, I just need to take the right actions.

St. Augustine (100%)
Kant (82%)
Stoics (75%)
Spinoza (73%)
Aquinas (69%)
Plato (69%)
Jean-Paul Sartre (56%)
Nietzsche (56%)
Ockham (56%)
David Hume (49%)
Ayn Rand (47%)
Jeremy Bentham (42%)
Cynics (40%)
Nel Noddings (37%)
John Stuart Mill (36%)
Prescriptivism (36%)
Aristotle (30%)
Epicureans (17%)
Thomas Hobbes (13%)
Why wouldn't you be surprised? It's a quiz set up for entertainment purposes.

I'm almost willing to bet money that if you took this again in a week you would get a different result.
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No, probably not. My moral philosophy is clearly defined. It doesn't change.
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Sedulius
Nov 5 2009, 03:34 PM
No, probably not. My moral philosophy is clearly defined. It doesn't change.
I'm sorry, I really am.
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Sedulius
Nov 5 2009, 03:34 PM
No, probably not. My moral philosophy is clearly defined. It doesn't change.
Lol!
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Hmm is there an advantage to changing one's ethical philosophy as opposed to not changing it, or vice versa?
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Tristan da Cunha
Nov 5 2009, 05:58 PM
Hmm is there an advantage to changing one's ethical philosophy as opposed to not changing it, or vice versa?
Probably depends where one is to start, and where one is changing to.
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But that requires that one assess the worth of the ethical philosophies one starts with and changes to. How one judges the worth of an ethical philosophy is a question rooted in ethical philosophy, is it not?
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Al Araam
Nov 5 2009, 06:51 PM
But that requires that one assess the worth of the ethical philosophies one starts with and changes to. How one judges the worth of an ethical philosophy is a question rooted in ethical philosophy, is it not?
Of course. I would imagine that one always thinks the change is for the better.

I take myself as the neutral point from which others are to be measured.
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1. Aquinas (100%) Books, etc. Information link
2. Jeremy Bentham (100%) Books, etc. Information link
3. John Stuart Mill (79%) Books, etc. Information link
4. Aristotle (76%) Books, etc. Information link
5. Kant (76%) Books, etc. Information link
6. Epicureans (69%) Books, etc. Information link
7. Jean-Paul Sartre (65%) Books, etc. Information link
8. Spinoza (64%) Books, etc. Information link
9. Cynics (62%) Books, etc. Information link
10. St. Augustine (59%) Books, etc. Information link
11. Ayn Rand (58%) Books, etc. Information link
12. Nel Noddings (57%) Books, etc. Information link
13. Ockham (53%) Books, etc. Information link
14. Prescriptivism (50%) Books, etc. Information link
15. Thomas Hobbes (49%) Books, etc. Information link
16. Stoics (46%) Books, etc. Information link
17. Nietzsche (35%) Books, etc. Information link
18. Plato (32%) Books, etc. Information link
19. David Hume (24%) Books, etc. Information link
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Without bothering to make any kind of elaboration, I'll just pitch the idea that not reassessing your idea of ethics and morality in a shifting environment is not pragmatic, as said shift may show you to be an unethical individual in a society of higher morals.

Take the redneck whose popular in high school, and goes to college in the metropolis. He might still think that his ideologies of carrying a loaded shotgun around in his pickup truck is still a good idea, but he does not realize that there is a slightly higher risk factor in an area with a denser population than a small isolated town of a few hundred people.
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Ulgania
Nov 6 2009, 12:25 AM
Without bothering to make any kind of elaboration, I'll just pitch the idea that not reassessing your idea of ethics and morality in a shifting environment is not pragmatic, as said shift may show you to be an unethical individual in a society of higher morals.

Take the redneck whose popular in high school, and goes to college in the metropolis. He might still think that his ideologies of carrying a loaded shotgun around in his pickup truck is still a good idea, but he does not realize that there is a slightly higher risk factor in an area with a denser population than a small isolated town of a few hundred people.
:huh:

Wouldn't the slightly higher risk factor in a dense population area be MORE of a reason to carry a loaded shotgun around in your pickup truck!!! :lol: Seriously! I'd carry a loaded shotgun around in the country! I'd carry two in the metropolis!

Oh, redneck...
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flumes
Nov 6 2009, 01:34 AM
Ulgania
Nov 6 2009, 12:25 AM
Without bothering to make any kind of elaboration, I'll just pitch the idea that not reassessing your idea of ethics and morality in a shifting environment is not pragmatic, as said shift may show you to be an unethical individual in a society of higher morals.

Take the redneck whose popular in high school, and goes to college in the metropolis. He might still think that his ideologies of carrying a loaded shotgun around in his pickup truck is still a good idea, but he does not realize that there is a slightly higher risk factor in an area with a denser population than a small isolated town of a few hundred people.
:huh:

Wouldn't the slightly higher risk factor in a dense population area be MORE of a reason to carry a loaded shotgun around in your pickup truck!!! :lol: Seriously! I'd carry a loaded shotgun around in the country! I'd carry two in the metropolis!

Oh, redneck...
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I had to do it.
lulz sarcasm!

But the context involves hunting game.
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Tristan da Cunha
Nov 5 2009, 05:58 PM
Hmm is there an advantage to changing one's ethical philosophy as opposed to not changing it, or vice versa?
This is a question that relates strongly to one's moral parsimony.

Mine was 84%, fwiw.
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Nov 6 2009, 10:29 AM
Tristan da Cunha
Nov 5 2009, 05:58 PM
Hmm is there an advantage to changing one's ethical philosophy as opposed to not changing it, or vice versa?
This is a question that relates strongly to one's moral parsimony.

Mine was 84%, fwiw.
I got "Your Moral Parsimony Score is 55%"

Geographical Distance, Family Relatedness, and Acts and Ommissions were all more important to me than average. Scale was unimportant.
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Nov 6 2009, 11:09 AM
Esternarx
Nov 6 2009, 10:29 AM
Tristan da Cunha
Nov 5 2009, 05:58 PM
Hmm is there an advantage to changing one's ethical philosophy as opposed to not changing it, or vice versa?
This is a question that relates strongly to one's moral parsimony.

Mine was 84%, fwiw.
I got "Your Moral Parsimony Score is 55%"

Geographical Distance, Family Relatedness, and Acts and Ommissions were all more important to me than average. Scale was unimportant.
100% Geographical Distance - Unimportant
67% Family Relatedness - Slightly important, though less than average
67% Acts and Omissions - Slightly important, though less than average
100% Scale - Unimportant
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Overall 59%

Geo - 35% - Important
Family - 67% - Less important
Omissions - 35% - Important
Scale - 100% - Not important at all

I am not in the least bit surprised, though since I answered No to every question concerning if I would kill someone it appears they seem to think there are times when I should have said Yes!
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Moral Parsimony Score is 71%

Geographical Distance - 100%
Family Relatedness - 67%
Acts and Omissions - 67%
Scale - 51%

I think I understand what the percentages mean, but would someone be so kind as to try and clarify (at least the overall score) for me?
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Moral Parsimony: 55%

Acts and Omissions and Scale were the most important.

As for interpreting the overall score: a higher score means that you give the circumstances of a moral choice less consideration, so you have a more absolute moral framework. Contrarily, a lower score means that you give the circumstances of a moral choice more consideration, so your moral framework is more flexible and thus more difficult to describe as small number of hard and fast rules. I think.
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Nov 5 2009, 05:58 PM
Hmm is there an advantage to changing one's ethical philosophy as opposed to not changing it, or vice versa?
In my case, the only gain I could have from changing my ethical philosophy is of a worldly nature.

In a worldly person's case, there is everything to be gained from changing their ethical philosophy.

You atheists laugh, but you have no idea just how ignorant all of us are. All I'm going to say is that you should keep an open mind. None of us can even comprehend the truth of this universe, and none of us ever will, till perhaps our deaths.
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