Deep Thoughts

[kelly_chambliss]

Stolen from the ultra-cool pale_moonlite. It's a problematic quiz, of course -- filled with spelling and other errors and with overly-schematic categories. But fun, like all these things. (There's no such thing as a "purely objective" language.)

Which philosopher are you? Your Result: Early Wittgenstein / Positivists   The ambiguity of language is the cause for most (if not all) philosophical problems. If we could get a purely objective language all philosophical problems would be solved. Q.E.D. --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.
Aristotle
Nietzsche
W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein
Plato (strict rationalists)
Immanuel Kant
Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)
Which philosopher are you? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Comments

[delphi]

As you say, extremely flawed quiz, but I was tickled by my results (inaccurately summarized though they are):

1. Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)
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)
2. Early Wittgenstein / Positivists
3. Aristotle
4. W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein
5. Nietzsche
6. Immanuel Kant
7. Plato (strict rationalists)

[kelly_chambliss]

Yeah, the descriptions of each result are rather eccentric.

In college, I knew a very serious, solemn, un-ironic guy who spent his weekends writing an "existentialist murder mystery" -- in which, he said, no one really died because no one really exists.

[delphi]

*laughs* One of my very favourite novels, The City and the City by China Mieville, is in fact an existentialist murder mystery, no lie.

[sophia_gratia]

Complainy complaintthoughts of complainery regarding this quiz.

It says a lot about where my brain has been lately that I took this very seriously and got genuinely stressed out and angry while filling out the questionnaire.

That said, I'm Sartre/Camus. (I'm actually the monstrous lovechild of Philo, Hegel, and Kristeva, but never mind that.)

And of COURSE you're Wittgenstein. (Whom, for the record, I admire, in spite of his philosophy-boy acolytes.)

[kelly_chambliss]

And of COURSE you're Wittgenstein.

Not quite sure what this means /g/. But I'll take it as as a compliment. The man was mad, but a genius.

It was a very strange quiz.

[sophia_gratia]

There's just something about orneriness, brilliance, and language philosophy all in one place that screams 'Kelly' to me. It is definitely a compliment.