Chad thinks it’s a good point in the week for internet quizzes. So, since I saw it at Arbitrary Marks, I took a quiz to determine my ethical style. (No, “bossy” isn’t one of the possible results.)

What the quiz says about me after the jump.

Jean-Paul Sartre (100%)

Kant (97%)

John Stuart Mill (83%)

Jeremy Bentham (77%)

Stoics (73%)

Aquinas (63%)

Ayn Rand (59%)

Spinoza (55%)

Prescriptivism (49%)

Nel Noddings (46%)

St. Augustine (46%)

Plato (40%)

Nietzsche (39%)

Aristotle (35%)

David Hume (34%)

Epicureans (34%)

Ockham (27%)

Cynics (20%)

Thomas Hobbes (20%)

Here’s the disclaimer about how to interpret the scores:

The results are scored on a curve. The highest score, 100, represents the closest philosophical match to your reponses. This is not to say that you and the philosopher are in total agreement.

Surprises: Sarte is my top match? Aristotle is 5th from the bottom? (I would have guessed higher.) Rand is as high in the list as 7th?

While I’m not a card-carrying Kantian, it turns out that I’m not completely surprised that he’s second on my list of matches.

And, I need to mention my favorite feature of the quiz: each of the multiple choice items includes “Doesn’t matter/Dislike all answer choices” as a choice. Especially for a surevy about ethics (where one’s view may not be neatly captured by the other available choices), this is pretty neat.