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alexmegamiA random survey by yours truly. I think I have all the definitions right ^^;; if not, someone correct me, and I'll correct the survey.
[PHILOSOPHY]
1. What gives an act moral worth: the motive or the outcome?
2. Are people means or ends? (Go, Machiavelli, go!)
3. Do you think it is possible to follow Kant's Categorical Imperative:
a) "Act only on that maxim which you can will as a universal law" (do only what you can reasonably expect all sane people to do)
b) "Never treat someone as merely a means, but an end also" (treat people with dignity and respect)
4. Do you think the world you see is objective (independent of your mind) or subjective (what you see is dependent on perceptions/etc.)?
5. Do you believe in realism (the world continues to exist, even if you are not perceiving it) or antirealism (the world ceases to exist when you cease perceiving it)?
6. Berkeley and Nietzsche are having a conversation in an enclosed room.
Nietzsche says "God is dead" and turns around. Berkeley vanishes.
Do you get the joke? (Yes, this IS random.)
7. What makes a human a person? (What defines person-ness?)
8. Consider the mind/body problem. Do you believe that we are only body, and 'minds' and 'thoughts' are merely brain functions (materialist)? Do you believe that the mind is the only thing that exists (idealist)? If you believe that both exist, where do they interact? How can you explain this?
9. Do we have free will, or is everything determined? If we have free will, why is the rest of the world deterministic?
10. What percentage of the Big Questions are mysteries (never able to be answered by people), and what percentage are problems (we just haven't found the answers yet)? Why do you say that?
11. Lifeboat Problem: You have a raft, floating at sea. On it there is: a convict, a lesbian physicist, a mother and her child, a doctor, and an old man. The raft can only hold and feed four people for the time it will take to get back to shore. If you do not choose two people to be thrown off, they will all die. Who do you choose to kill? Justify your murderous rage.
12. Can someone be truly altruistic, or is there always some egoistic motive driving them? (Fame, sense of self-worth, etc.)
13. Are you the same person you were five years ago? Ten? Will you be the same person as you are now in twenty years? Why/why not?
14. Can you infer from evidence given that something is true, or is experience the only way to know whether it is true or not?
15. Is Schrodinger's cat alive or dead? And don't give me any of this 100% alive AND 100% dead shit. Schrodinger was a Libra.
16. Is there a moral absolute? Should there be?
17. The greatest good for the greatest number (utilitarianism), or good for everyone (Kant)?
[MUSIC]
(a) CLASSICAL MUSIC:
1. Which time period was the best? (Classical, Romantic, Baroque, etc.)
2. Who is your favorite composer? Why?
3. Do you know how they died?
4. Which is better: monophony, homophony, or polyphony?
5. Is there an interval you really like?
6. What is your favorite instrument?
(b) CURRENT MUSIC:
7. How do your musical tastes run?
8. Who is your favorite singer/band?
9. What is your favorite instrument?
10. Is rap music, or rhythm poetry? (Assume that it's good rap.)
[ART]
1. Who is your favorite painter, and why?
2. What is your favorite style of art (Impressionism, pontillism, etc.)?
3. Who is your favorite sculptor, etc.?
4. What is your favorite piece of art?
5. How long has it been since you went to a gallery/art exhibit/etc?
[DRAMA]
1. What was the last play you saw?
1b. ...the last musical?
2. What is your favorite musical?
3. Have you ever been in a play?
4. Have you ever been the star?
[RANDOM THOUGHTS]
1. Ever thought the stars were, like, God's salt, and He's just waiting to eat us?
2. What's your opinion on religion in 50 words or less? (I have a short attention span.)
3. Is to be, to do? (Descartes)
3b. Is to do, to be? (Voltaire)
3c. Do be do be do? (Frank Sinatra)
4. Are you confused, horrified, or otherwise intellectually violated by this quiz?
4b. ...is it because you're ashamed to admit you just don't know what you think?
5. I know exactly where we are. ....where the FUCK are we?
And now, my answers!
[PHILOSOPHY]
1. What gives an act moral worth: the motive or the outcome?
The outcome.
2. Are people means or ends? (Go, Machiavelli, go!)
People should only be ends. Yes, I realize this probably contradicts the previous answer. Um... the end should always be the moral one, but people should not be used (or abused) to get that end.
3. Do you think it is possible to follow Kant's Categorical Imperative:
a) "Act only on that maxim which you can will as a universal law" (do only what you can reasonably expect all sane people to do)
b) "Never treat someone as merely a means, but an end also" (treat people with dignity and respect)
No, because you will never find something that everyone agrees to. B, certainly, people should be treated with dignity and respect no matter what.
4. Do you think the world you see is objective (independent of your mind) or subjective (what you see is dependent on perceptions/etc.)?
Objective... And no, don't argue it with me... my mind can't take it.
5. Do you believe in realism (the world continues to exist, even if you are not perceiving it) or antirealism (the world ceases to exist when you cease perceiving it)?
Realism.
6. Berkeley and Nietzsche are having a conversation in an enclosed room.
Nietzsche says "God is dead" and turns around. Berkeley vanishes.
Do you get the joke? (Yes, this IS random.)
I came up with it. ^^
7. What makes a human a person? (What defines person-ness?)
Consciousness, sentience, the ability to make moral decisions.
8. Consider the mind/body problem. Do you believe that we are only body, and 'minds' and 'thoughts' are merely brain functions (materialist)? Do you believe that the mind is the only thing that exists (idealist)? If you believe that both exist, where do they interact? How can you explain this?
Dualist, and no, I have no fucking clue how the two interact. ^^;; At least I'm honest in my ignorance.
9. Do we have free will, or is everything determined? If we have free will, why is the rest of the world deterministic?
Euch... I have to be egotistical and say we have free will. Why do we? I don't know.
10. What percentage of the Big Questions are mysteries (never able to be answered by people), and what percentage are problems (we just haven't found the answers yet)? Why do you say that?
I think it's all problems, we just don't have sufficient knowledge to find all the answers yet.
11. Lifeboat Problem: You have a raft, floating at sea. On it there is: a convict, a lesbian physicist who will go on to win a Nobel Peace Prize for some great discovery, a mother and her child, a doctor, and an old man. The raft can only hold and feed four people for the time it will take to get back to shore. If you do not choose two people to be thrown off, they will all die. Who do you choose to kill? Justify your murderous rage.
The convict, because he's obviously immoral and makes no contribution to society from prison, and the old man, because he's already lived his life and made his contribution to society.
12. Can someone be truly altruistic, or is there always some egoistic motive driving them? (Fame, sense of self-worth, etc.)
I'd like to think altruism exists. But realistically, it probably doesn't.
13. Are you the same person you were five years ago? Ten? Will you be the same person as you are now in twenty years? Why/why not?
I am and will be, but there will be changes in ideas/personality/education/morals along the way. It'll just layer over top of everything I know now or knew then.
14. Can you infer from evidence given that something is true, or is experience the only way to know whether it is true or not?
Empiricism (experience is the only way to know).
15. Is Schrodinger's cat alive or dead? And don't give me any of this 100% alive AND 100% dead shit. Schrodinger was a Libra.
It's alive, because I don't want the cat to be dead!
16. Is there a moral absolute? Should there be?
No and no.
[MUSIC]
(a) CLASSICAL MUSIC:
1. Which time period was the best? (Classical, Romantic, Baroque, etc.)
Romantic.
2. Who is your favorite composer? Why?
Tchaikovsky! XD Because I love Swan Lake, and it is my favorite ballet ever.
3. Do you know how they died?
Yes, or at least the rumor: He was in love with/having a relationship with the son of some powerful leader, so the militia forced him to drink poison. ^^ So the rumor goes.
4. Which is better: monophony, homophony, or polyphony?
Homophony. Monophony is boring, but polyphony is too much.
5. Is there an interval you really like?
Perfect fifth. XD Star Wars!
6. What is your favorite instrument?
Violin, oboe and flute are all really close top 3.
(b) CURRENT MUSIC:
7. How do your musical tastes run?
Amok. Um, mostly rock/alternative/oldies/80's.
8. Who is your favorite singer/band?
The Tea Party and Barenaked Ladies.
9. What is your favorite instrument/noisemaker?
Piano or synthesizer. XD
10. Is rap music, or rhythm poetry? (Assume that it's good rap.)
Rhythm poetry.
[ART]
1. Who is your favorite painter, and why?
Raphael, because of... um... I dunno, I just like him.
2. What is your favorite style of art (Impressionism, pontillism, etc.)?
Whatever is 'realistic' looking.
3. Who is your favorite sculptor, etc.?
Michelangelo XD
4. What is your favorite piece of art?
La Pieta (Michelangelo's), and the Venus de Milo (NO idea... too early to think)
5. How long has it been since you went to a gallery/art exhibit/etc?
Like... a year ^^;
[DRAMA]
1. What was the last play you saw?
Jeff's. XD;; Everything else I watch is a musical.
1b. ...the last musical?
Mamma Mia!
2. What is your favorite musical?
Les Miserables XD
3. Have you ever been in a play?
Hooray for TiTC!
4. Have you ever been the star?
Nope.
[RANDOM THOUGHTS]
1. Ever thought the stars were, like, God's salt, and He's just waiting to eat us?
Only when watching Simon's ceiling.
2. What's your opinion on religion in 50 words or less? (I have a short attention span.)
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
3. Are you confused, horrified, or otherwise intellectually violated by this quiz?
Intellectually violated, because...
3b. ...is it because you're ashamed to admit you just don't know what you think?
Well, yeah. ^^; Philosophy breaks my brain, but I like it.
4. I know exactly where we are. ....where the FUCK are we?
On Earth. ^^
[PHILOSOPHY]
1. What gives an act moral worth: the motive or the outcome?
2. Are people means or ends? (Go, Machiavelli, go!)
3. Do you think it is possible to follow Kant's Categorical Imperative:
a) "Act only on that maxim which you can will as a universal law" (do only what you can reasonably expect all sane people to do)
b) "Never treat someone as merely a means, but an end also" (treat people with dignity and respect)
4. Do you think the world you see is objective (independent of your mind) or subjective (what you see is dependent on perceptions/etc.)?
5. Do you believe in realism (the world continues to exist, even if you are not perceiving it) or antirealism (the world ceases to exist when you cease perceiving it)?
6. Berkeley and Nietzsche are having a conversation in an enclosed room.
Nietzsche says "God is dead" and turns around. Berkeley vanishes.
Do you get the joke? (Yes, this IS random.)
7. What makes a human a person? (What defines person-ness?)
8. Consider the mind/body problem. Do you believe that we are only body, and 'minds' and 'thoughts' are merely brain functions (materialist)? Do you believe that the mind is the only thing that exists (idealist)? If you believe that both exist, where do they interact? How can you explain this?
9. Do we have free will, or is everything determined? If we have free will, why is the rest of the world deterministic?
10. What percentage of the Big Questions are mysteries (never able to be answered by people), and what percentage are problems (we just haven't found the answers yet)? Why do you say that?
11. Lifeboat Problem: You have a raft, floating at sea. On it there is: a convict, a lesbian physicist, a mother and her child, a doctor, and an old man. The raft can only hold and feed four people for the time it will take to get back to shore. If you do not choose two people to be thrown off, they will all die. Who do you choose to kill? Justify your murderous rage.
12. Can someone be truly altruistic, or is there always some egoistic motive driving them? (Fame, sense of self-worth, etc.)
13. Are you the same person you were five years ago? Ten? Will you be the same person as you are now in twenty years? Why/why not?
14. Can you infer from evidence given that something is true, or is experience the only way to know whether it is true or not?
15. Is Schrodinger's cat alive or dead? And don't give me any of this 100% alive AND 100% dead shit. Schrodinger was a Libra.
16. Is there a moral absolute? Should there be?
17. The greatest good for the greatest number (utilitarianism), or good for everyone (Kant)?
[MUSIC]
(a) CLASSICAL MUSIC:
1. Which time period was the best? (Classical, Romantic, Baroque, etc.)
2. Who is your favorite composer? Why?
3. Do you know how they died?
4. Which is better: monophony, homophony, or polyphony?
5. Is there an interval you really like?
6. What is your favorite instrument?
(b) CURRENT MUSIC:
7. How do your musical tastes run?
8. Who is your favorite singer/band?
9. What is your favorite instrument?
10. Is rap music, or rhythm poetry? (Assume that it's good rap.)
[ART]
1. Who is your favorite painter, and why?
2. What is your favorite style of art (Impressionism, pontillism, etc.)?
3. Who is your favorite sculptor, etc.?
4. What is your favorite piece of art?
5. How long has it been since you went to a gallery/art exhibit/etc?
[DRAMA]
1. What was the last play you saw?
1b. ...the last musical?
2. What is your favorite musical?
3. Have you ever been in a play?
4. Have you ever been the star?
[RANDOM THOUGHTS]
1. Ever thought the stars were, like, God's salt, and He's just waiting to eat us?
2. What's your opinion on religion in 50 words or less? (I have a short attention span.)
3. Is to be, to do? (Descartes)
3b. Is to do, to be? (Voltaire)
3c. Do be do be do? (Frank Sinatra)
4. Are you confused, horrified, or otherwise intellectually violated by this quiz?
4b. ...is it because you're ashamed to admit you just don't know what you think?
5. I know exactly where we are. ....where the FUCK are we?
And now, my answers!
[PHILOSOPHY]
1. What gives an act moral worth: the motive or the outcome?
The outcome.
2. Are people means or ends? (Go, Machiavelli, go!)
People should only be ends. Yes, I realize this probably contradicts the previous answer. Um... the end should always be the moral one, but people should not be used (or abused) to get that end.
3. Do you think it is possible to follow Kant's Categorical Imperative:
a) "Act only on that maxim which you can will as a universal law" (do only what you can reasonably expect all sane people to do)
b) "Never treat someone as merely a means, but an end also" (treat people with dignity and respect)
No, because you will never find something that everyone agrees to. B, certainly, people should be treated with dignity and respect no matter what.
4. Do you think the world you see is objective (independent of your mind) or subjective (what you see is dependent on perceptions/etc.)?
Objective... And no, don't argue it with me... my mind can't take it.
5. Do you believe in realism (the world continues to exist, even if you are not perceiving it) or antirealism (the world ceases to exist when you cease perceiving it)?
Realism.
6. Berkeley and Nietzsche are having a conversation in an enclosed room.
Nietzsche says "God is dead" and turns around. Berkeley vanishes.
Do you get the joke? (Yes, this IS random.)
I came up with it. ^^
7. What makes a human a person? (What defines person-ness?)
Consciousness, sentience, the ability to make moral decisions.
8. Consider the mind/body problem. Do you believe that we are only body, and 'minds' and 'thoughts' are merely brain functions (materialist)? Do you believe that the mind is the only thing that exists (idealist)? If you believe that both exist, where do they interact? How can you explain this?
Dualist, and no, I have no fucking clue how the two interact. ^^;; At least I'm honest in my ignorance.
9. Do we have free will, or is everything determined? If we have free will, why is the rest of the world deterministic?
Euch... I have to be egotistical and say we have free will. Why do we? I don't know.
10. What percentage of the Big Questions are mysteries (never able to be answered by people), and what percentage are problems (we just haven't found the answers yet)? Why do you say that?
I think it's all problems, we just don't have sufficient knowledge to find all the answers yet.
11. Lifeboat Problem: You have a raft, floating at sea. On it there is: a convict, a lesbian physicist who will go on to win a Nobel Peace Prize for some great discovery, a mother and her child, a doctor, and an old man. The raft can only hold and feed four people for the time it will take to get back to shore. If you do not choose two people to be thrown off, they will all die. Who do you choose to kill? Justify your murderous rage.
The convict, because he's obviously immoral and makes no contribution to society from prison, and the old man, because he's already lived his life and made his contribution to society.
12. Can someone be truly altruistic, or is there always some egoistic motive driving them? (Fame, sense of self-worth, etc.)
I'd like to think altruism exists. But realistically, it probably doesn't.
13. Are you the same person you were five years ago? Ten? Will you be the same person as you are now in twenty years? Why/why not?
I am and will be, but there will be changes in ideas/personality/education/morals along the way. It'll just layer over top of everything I know now or knew then.
14. Can you infer from evidence given that something is true, or is experience the only way to know whether it is true or not?
Empiricism (experience is the only way to know).
15. Is Schrodinger's cat alive or dead? And don't give me any of this 100% alive AND 100% dead shit. Schrodinger was a Libra.
It's alive, because I don't want the cat to be dead!
16. Is there a moral absolute? Should there be?
No and no.
[MUSIC]
(a) CLASSICAL MUSIC:
1. Which time period was the best? (Classical, Romantic, Baroque, etc.)
Romantic.
2. Who is your favorite composer? Why?
Tchaikovsky! XD Because I love Swan Lake, and it is my favorite ballet ever.
3. Do you know how they died?
Yes, or at least the rumor: He was in love with/having a relationship with the son of some powerful leader, so the militia forced him to drink poison. ^^ So the rumor goes.
4. Which is better: monophony, homophony, or polyphony?
Homophony. Monophony is boring, but polyphony is too much.
5. Is there an interval you really like?
Perfect fifth. XD Star Wars!
6. What is your favorite instrument?
Violin, oboe and flute are all really close top 3.
(b) CURRENT MUSIC:
7. How do your musical tastes run?
Amok. Um, mostly rock/alternative/oldies/80's.
8. Who is your favorite singer/band?
The Tea Party and Barenaked Ladies.
9. What is your favorite instrument/noisemaker?
Piano or synthesizer. XD
10. Is rap music, or rhythm poetry? (Assume that it's good rap.)
Rhythm poetry.
[ART]
1. Who is your favorite painter, and why?
Raphael, because of... um... I dunno, I just like him.
2. What is your favorite style of art (Impressionism, pontillism, etc.)?
Whatever is 'realistic' looking.
3. Who is your favorite sculptor, etc.?
Michelangelo XD
4. What is your favorite piece of art?
La Pieta (Michelangelo's), and the Venus de Milo (NO idea... too early to think)
5. How long has it been since you went to a gallery/art exhibit/etc?
Like... a year ^^;
[DRAMA]
1. What was the last play you saw?
Jeff's. XD;; Everything else I watch is a musical.
1b. ...the last musical?
Mamma Mia!
2. What is your favorite musical?
Les Miserables XD
3. Have you ever been in a play?
Hooray for TiTC!
4. Have you ever been the star?
Nope.
[RANDOM THOUGHTS]
1. Ever thought the stars were, like, God's salt, and He's just waiting to eat us?
Only when watching Simon's ceiling.
2. What's your opinion on religion in 50 words or less? (I have a short attention span.)
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
3. Are you confused, horrified, or otherwise intellectually violated by this quiz?
Intellectually violated, because...
3b. ...is it because you're ashamed to admit you just don't know what you think?
Well, yeah. ^^; Philosophy breaks my brain, but I like it.
4. I know exactly where we are. ....where the FUCK are we?
On Earth. ^^
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Date: 2002-07-10 03:43 pm (UTC)And I can't think of Nietzsche or Machiavelli without thinking of this... ahaha. I'm demented.
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Date: 2002-07-10 08:16 pm (UTC)O_o; I don't know what it is, and it still frightens me. *LOL* ^^;