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My results for the ethical philosophers quiz (pointed out by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evandra):
Note that the results are "scored on a curve", so 100% doesn't mean that I agree with everything in Ayn Rand's philosophy, just more than the others on the list. Unfortunately there's no way to get a raw comparison, like that presidential candidates quiz that I can't seem to find anywhere now. (Why can't I get an index of all my comments on other people's journals?)
Anyway, I'm not particularly surprised by the results. When I read Atlas Shrugged (at age 22) it seemed to spell out a lot of the ideals I had semi-consciously formed up to that point, which I hadn't seen anywhere else. Since then, though, I've disagreed with a whole lot of the objectivist and libertarian stuff that I've read; it's frustrating to see how divergent views can follow from fundamental agreement of principles. Which is why I think philosophy and politics really ought to stay completely separate from each other.
evandra):- Ayn Rand (100%)
- Nietzsche (97%)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (97%)
- David Hume (96%)
- Cynics (90%)
- Stoics (90%)
- Thomas Hobbes (90%)
- John Stuart Mill (79%)
- Jeremy Bentham (73%)
- Kant (70%)
- Aquinas (67%)
- Epicureans (66%)
- Aristotle (61%)
- Nel Noddings (59%)
- Spinoza (59%)
- Plato (36%)
- St. Augustine (34%)
- Ockham (28%)
- Prescriptivism (26%)
Note that the results are "scored on a curve", so 100% doesn't mean that I agree with everything in Ayn Rand's philosophy, just more than the others on the list. Unfortunately there's no way to get a raw comparison, like that presidential candidates quiz that I can't seem to find anywhere now. (Why can't I get an index of all my comments on other people's journals?)
Anyway, I'm not particularly surprised by the results. When I read Atlas Shrugged (at age 22) it seemed to spell out a lot of the ideals I had semi-consciously formed up to that point, which I hadn't seen anywhere else. Since then, though, I've disagreed with a whole lot of the objectivist and libertarian stuff that I've read; it's frustrating to see how divergent views can follow from fundamental agreement of principles. Which is why I think philosophy and politics really ought to stay completely separate from each other.