Ethical Philosophy Quiz

[Quintessence]

...Kant. Oh dear.

Kan't handle it?

(sorry, I couldn't resist)

 

[1137]

Where's Rawls? I god John Stuart Mill despite clearly not being utilitarian, I'm Rawlsian.

 

[Eliab ben Benjamin]

1. John Stuart Mill (100%)

2. Jean-Paul Sartre (91%)

3. Jeremy Bentham (89%)

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I guess I mostly agree because my religion's ethics are mostly focused on cultivating Virtue throughout your life.

1. Thomas Aquinas (100%)
2. Aristotle (96%)
3. Stoics (90%)

Aquinas (1225 or '27-1274)

• All life has a purpose

• Meeting this purpose allows one to be happy.

• Happiness is to be found in the love of God.

• God's grace providing entrance into heaven creates the highest form of human happiness.

• Short of heaven, a person can achieve a more limited form of happiness through a life of virtue and friendship.

• Morality is not determined by the arbitrary will of God.

• Morality is derived from human nature and the activities that are objectively suited to it.

• The difference between right and wrong can be appreciated through the use of reason and reflection.

• Religious reflection may supplement the use of reason and reflection to determine right from wrong.

• Societies must enact laws to ensure the correct application of moral reasoning.

• Human nature is good because God made it good.

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  Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

• The life of virtue is rewarding for the individual and the community.

• The essence of a thing does not exist independent of the thing.

• There is no completely universal idea of "the good."

• There is an individualized ideal form for all living things.

• In living in accordance with their true nature, humans will find the most enjoyment out of reasoning.

• An investigation of human nature can reveal how humans ought to act.

• Humans have a pre-defined purpose.

• People can have variations on the best way to exist in order to meet their purpose.

• The mean between the extremes of any given characteristic is the ideal.

• The rule of the "Golden Mean" is not to be applied mechanically

• Aristotle discusses having practical knowledge as being able to have the right means to one's action and the right ends

 

[psychoslice]

John Stuart Mill (100%)

 

[Quagmire]

 

[Quagmire]

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 100%
Thomas Aquinas 94%
David Hume 93%
Stoics 93%

Sadly:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 0%

I got 0 for Rousseau myself, which kind of surprised me.

 

[Brinne]

I got 100% Aquinas followed by St. Augustine at 89%. Not too surprised honestly.