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▷Which famous philosopher do you most agree with? SelectSmart.com free Philosophy personality test, selector quiz, matching, choose, compare.
Please Report Broken Or Missing Images.Which famous philosopher do you most agree with?
64 votes. Cast your vote on the results page. 21,618 people received results from this selector quiz. Created November 2003.
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By Bryan W. Van Norden (Search Google for other selectors by Bryan W. Van Norden)
I'm a professor of philosophy at Vassar College. This guide is partially tongue-in-cheek, but it does provide some insight into which great philosopher has views most similar to your own.
  • This SelectSmart.com Philosophy selector, a free online personality quiz, is a creation of Bryan W. Van Norden and for amusement purposes only. The implicit and explicit opinions expressed here are the author's. SelectSmart.com does not necessarily agree.
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    1. It is possible to know some things to be true.
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    2. Everything is just a matter of opinion.
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    3. You can only know to be true what your senses (sight, hearing, etc.) tell you.
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    4. You can use your reason to infer the existence and qualities of some things that you cannot sense directly.
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    5. You can prove that God exists.
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    6. You cannot prove that God exists, but you cannot prove that God does NOT exist either.
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    7. Only weak, cowardly people believe in God.
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    8. The most important thing for a person is to love God and follow his will.
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    9. Although sex is not wrong, per se, chastity is a higher calling if you are capable of it.
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    10. Natural science (physics, chemistry, etc.) gives us objective knowledge, and is one of the greatest human achievements.
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    11. Philosophy should strive to model itself on natural science.
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    12. Philosophy should try to be like mathematics, rather than the experimental sciences.
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    13. We do not directly experience the world; we interpret it through our concepts.
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    14. The most important moral values are being free ourselves and respecting the freedom of others.
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    15. People talk about "morality," but in reality people have ulterior motives like the desire for power.
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    16. People who insist on "logical" arguments are just control-freaks who are trying to impose their ideas on others.
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    17. Creating something original is more important to me than doing what is supposedly "moral."
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    18. There are some moral rules (like don't murder, don't steal) that are true universally, even though they need to be interpreted in particular social contexts.
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    19. There is a higher and better world beyond the everyday world in which we live.
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    20. Some activities are just unnatural for human beings, and no one should do them.
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    21. Humans sometimes do evil things just for the sake of doing evil.
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    22. Humans never knowingly do what is evil; evil is caused by ignorance.
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    23. The average person knows as much as the so-called "experts," especially when it comes to politics and public policy.
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    24. Mediocre people often oppose me or fail to appreciate my talents and achievements.
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