Quizzes...
Sep. 26th, 2001 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khaosworksEveryone seems to be doing them these days. Here's one that I found quite interesting though - the Philosopher's Test.
My highest scores (both 100) on the Philosopher side were Aquinas and Spinoza. Wow. This from a former existentialist. Here's what the site says about Aquinas. Let's see how much I agree.
Aquinas (1225 or '27-1274)
* All life has a purpose (You betcha.)
* Meeting this purpose allows one to be happy (Well, it's a start.).
* Happiness is to be found in the love of God. (Um, maybe.)
* God's grace providing entrance into heaven creates the highest form of human happiness. (No, that's *afterlife* happiness. Human happiness is something else.)
* Short of heaven, a person can achieve a more limited form of happiness through a life of virtue and friendship. (Okay, this I can live with.)
* 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.
(I like these three a lot.)
* Religious reflection may supplement the use of reason and reflection to determine right from wrong. (Uh, only maybe. It's not necessary. Philosophic reflection may do just as well.)
* Societies must enact laws to ensure the correct application of moral reasoning. (Not legislate morality - but the reasoning bit yes.)
* Human nature is good because God made it good. (By definition, probably. Me, I think it's because we, generally, rock if given a decent enough chance.)
I'm not sure how they wound up pairing me with Spinoza, though, because I'm definitely not a determinist. They must seem to equate a belief in a deity as being determinist (as opposed to humanist). That's not necessarily true - the presence of a deity doesn't deny us free will, if the deity had so wished it.
Interesting, though.
My highest scores (both 100) on the Philosopher side were Aquinas and Spinoza. Wow. This from a former existentialist. Here's what the site says about Aquinas. Let's see how much I agree.
Aquinas (1225 or '27-1274)
* All life has a purpose (You betcha.)
* Meeting this purpose allows one to be happy (Well, it's a start.).
* Happiness is to be found in the love of God. (Um, maybe.)
* God's grace providing entrance into heaven creates the highest form of human happiness. (No, that's *afterlife* happiness. Human happiness is something else.)
* Short of heaven, a person can achieve a more limited form of happiness through a life of virtue and friendship. (Okay, this I can live with.)
* 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.
(I like these three a lot.)
* Religious reflection may supplement the use of reason and reflection to determine right from wrong. (Uh, only maybe. It's not necessary. Philosophic reflection may do just as well.)
* Societies must enact laws to ensure the correct application of moral reasoning. (Not legislate morality - but the reasoning bit yes.)
* Human nature is good because God made it good. (By definition, probably. Me, I think it's because we, generally, rock if given a decent enough chance.)
I'm not sure how they wound up pairing me with Spinoza, though, because I'm definitely not a determinist. They must seem to equate a belief in a deity as being determinist (as opposed to humanist). That's not necessarily true - the presence of a deity doesn't deny us free will, if the deity had so wished it.
Interesting, though.
