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Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is also a graduate student at the University of Kansas, completing a doctorate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not modeling species distributions or battling creationists, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.

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Philosophy

Category: Chatter
Posted on: March 31, 2007 10:52 AM, by Josh Rosenau

Via Stranger Fruit:

You scored as Justice (Fairness). Your life is guided by the concept of Fair Justice: Everyone, yourself included, should be rewarded and punished according to the help or harm they cause.

"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done."

--Leonardo da Vinci

“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”

--Dwight D. Eisenhower

More info at Arocoun's Wikipedia User Page...

Justice (Fairness)

95%

Kantianism

70%

Utilitarianism

65%

Existentialism

50%

Hedonism

25%

Apathy

15%

Strong Egoism

Divine Command

Nihilism

What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03)
created with QuizFarm.com

These quizzes annoy me, because they give bogus results unless you game them. On this quiz, if you acknowledge thinking about the meaning of life, you are an existentialist, pretty much whatever you think it means. That isn't my understanding of the term.

I nearly came out as a utilitarian, which is bogus. I think Kantianism and justice are closer to what I believe, and I think that there are ways that utilitarianism plays into those philosophies. The fact that I've thought about these things doesn't make me an existentialist.

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