Which philosopher are you?

[beorhthelm]

mine came out Satre, but i dont at all hold that reality is absurd, though i do recognise there are absurdities and that God is an attempt to cope with them. Question10 is heaily loaded, both in meaning and in score weighting. answering the first gives Satre, answering anything else changes me to Aristoltle.

ah... of course, language is tied to perception, and if my meaning of "absurdity" differs from the authors/mainstream even slightly, then i will go off down the wrong path.

 

[Buzzer]

You Sir, are a fine chap.

 

[crasher]

I'm a Kant too. On account of my belief in a universal ethical imperative I spose.

By the way, can we rely on any quiz which is so shockingly badly spelt? From "seperate" to "emperical".

 

[Dave the OAP]

seemingly. no room for grammatical errors in this thread. sorry.

or use of capitals obviously

 

[Trufflehound]

Groucho Marxist, with Winnie-the-Pooh Taoist leanings.

 

[Buzzer]

I'm a Kant too. On account of my belief in a universal ethical imperative I spose.

By the way, can we rely on any quiz which is so shockingly badly spelt? From "seperate" to "emperical".

Apparently, Bertrand Russell was none too hot at spelling and he didn't do too badly.

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Groucho Marxist, with Winnie-the-Pooh Taoist leanings.

So truth IS relative then.

 

[Trufflehound]

So truth IS relative then.

Truth is a bear of little brain. Chico and Harpo were relative.

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

or use of capitals obviously

capitals are for gays and immigrants.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table

David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach yer
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

Plato they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Ren頄escartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach yer

quality.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table

David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach yer
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

Plato they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Ren頄escartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed

talking of which....did any have a copy of " Monty Python's Brand New Papperbok"?

I was bought it for Christmas 100 years ago and have tried to find it since with no luck

edit - found it on ebay....

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Truth is a bear of little brain. Chico and Harpo were relative.

And you Sir, are banannas.

 

[Gwylan]

Early Wittgenstein/Postivist
The ambiguity of language is the cause for most (if not all) philosophical problems. If we could get a purely objective language all philosophical problems would be solved


That's about right actually - although Frege should have been in there somewhere. But I'd have been right at home with Neurath, Carnap, (and Popper and Ayer)

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

I am a Kant... yes I spelt that right ! Can a Muslim be a Kant? No, don't go there!

 

[Stat Brother]

Aristotle - Truth does not exist in some transcendent realm. We get to truth by applying reason to the physical world. The world follows logic and commonsense. Science if done properly is not to far from philosophy.

Q's 6 and 7 are illogical!

I'm with the chicks, as I too am Aristotle, which is handy as I'm a bugger for the bottle.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Some chap named W.V.O Quine.


No idea what his caper was.

 

[Trufflehound]

...Popper ... Ayer...

"I yam what I yam."

Doesn't that make him an existentialist?








Oh, I see... My mistake.

 

[Blackadder]

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)

innit

Ditto

I can sleep easy now!

 

[pasty]

And Ren頄escartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"

That'll be me then. Can't be arsed with the questions!