How Do You Rate?
Found this interesting quiz that tests your level of philosophical understanding. I'm curious to know how other people here score on the test. Post your results, and identify which ones you got wrong. As for me:
95% (1 wrong)
I got the 'person' question wrong (#16). I answered that a person is "a member of an ideological category including those with similar ideas about personhood." However, the test proclaimed that a person is "a member of a moral category who, by virtue of possessing a certain nature and having certain characteristics, is deserving of all the rights and respect that any other member of that category enjoys (which may include members of other species and may exclude some humans)." I would have gone with this answer but that last clause bothered me ("...may exclude some humans"). I could not think of a scenario in which any human could be considered not-a-person.
Found this interesting quiz that tests your level of philosophical understanding. I'm curious to know how other people here score on the test. Post your results, and identify which ones you got wrong. As for me:
95% (1 wrong)
I got the 'person' question wrong (#16). I answered that a person is "a member of an ideological category including those with similar ideas about personhood." However, the test proclaimed that a person is "a member of a moral category who, by virtue of possessing a certain nature and having certain characteristics, is deserving of all the rights and respect that any other member of that category enjoys (which may include members of other species and may exclude some humans)." I would have gone with this answer but that last clause bothered me ("...may exclude some humans"). I could not think of a scenario in which any human could be considered not-a-person.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
