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I am not normally one to join the crowd and take any of the many "tests" that have sprung up like toadstools on the Internet. However, inspired by the example of [livejournal.com profile] cg07446 (and intrigued by what his results referred to) I went and visited this page, which purports to order a set of philosophers/philosophies according to their compatibility with one's expressed choices on ethics. I took the test, with the following results:

1. Aristotle (100%)
2. Aquinas (99%)
3. Mill (90%)
4. Spinoza (77%)
5. Epicureans (74%)
6. Bentham (72%)
7. Kant (67%)
8. Rand (66%)
9. Augustine (65%)
10. Sartre (62%)
11. Nietzsche (61%)
12. Ockham (59%)
13. Cynics (57%)
14. Hume (57%)
15. Stoics (54%)
16. Plato (51%)
17. Noddings (45%)
18. Hobbes (43%)
19. Prescriptivism (40%)

Personally, I would have expected Rand to rank higher, and certainly would not expect to see her next to (and just below) Kant or within 5% of Sartre. Aquinas' high position is also a surprise.

Ah, well. Assuming the people who put together the test know what they are doing, I must be mellowing in my old age.

Cheers...

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