| Which philosopher are you? Your Result: 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)
--This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer. |
| W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein | |
| Nietzsche | |
| Aristotle | |
| Plato (strict rationalists) | |
| Early Wittgenstein / Positivists | |
| Immanuel Kant | |
Which philosopher are you?
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The problem with this quiz is it had a lot of questions on truth...and I don't quite believe "truth" necessarily exists or I see it as in the eye of the beholder. And also, the God question once again didn't have an answer that suited me. I see God as Love or synomous as Love and do not really believe in the existence of a "personal" God or "self-serving" God or perceive God in this manner. I think the closest I can come to a personal or self-serving perception of God is maybe the analogy that God is a writer, but even then ...it doesn't quite work.
But the idea that I'm an existentialist should come as a surprise to no one. I believe our fates are determined by choices that are in turn predetermined by a wide variety of variables some of which we have control over and some that we really do not. And while there is a definite pattern to life and the universe, we'll never begin to see it or figure it out, be a bit like a thread seeing the tapestry it's a part of. Just not possible. Which granted doesn't sound very existentialist, except for the fact that I believe in free will and the fact that we do control our own actions and choose to a degree who we are - at least to a degree. (I clearly have had a lot of arguments regarding free will and determinism in my life time, that and a tendency in college to fall in love with insane philosophy majors. We didn't argue politics in college, we argued philosophy.)
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