alexpgp | AlexPGP finally takes... a test!

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

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...