Eh the Philosophy Quiz...

[shadowkat]

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
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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.)

Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have to admit, I was surprised by the existentialist result.
The quiz has some weird questions and defines "truth" and "god" fairly narrowly.

I was going to minor in Philosophy in college, but when I changed universities I found the philosophical theories held in my new one weren't as compatible with my own thinking... and I didn't want to have to expound them).

Ah...had similar issues with what I wanted to do. I wanted to major in Political Science and minor in Psychology - but it didn't work at the school I went to. Psychology? All behavorists and experimentation. No clinical psychology. Highly annoying. While Poli Sci - was impossible because of scheduling. I sort of fell into my major and minor. Which is okay...except, I think I'm a frustrated psychologist. ;-)

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

That's funny, I had been planning to major in political science myself (I had focused a lot on History in High School and was President of the Young Democrats)... it had been my plan to work for Senator Robert Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign after High School and then start college a semester late.... after the election.
But RFK died on the day I graduated High School. So I switched to Fine Arts and started college immediate during the Summer session. With both Dr. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy being killed that Spring I decided that I had to avoid all that heartache.

But as much as I loved painting I felt that I had plenty of time to read and study something like Philosophy, and I fell in love with the Head of the Philosophy Dept (not really, just that he seemed so brilliant and interesting...). But when I moved away the new University seemed to be full of a lot of really boring Utilitarians with giant sticks up their collective asses (an exaggeration but you get the picture).
However I was really blessed with some spectacular English literature professors (including a visiting Oxford Professor writing about Shakespeare's sonnets, he was wonderful).

College was fun!