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kelly_chambliss ([personal profile] kelly_chambliss) wrote2012-05-24 11:54 am

Deep Thoughts

Stolen from the ultra-cool [personal profile] 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?
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[personal profile] delphi 2012-05-24 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
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)
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[personal profile] sophia_gratia 2012-05-24 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
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.)