The Find Your Philosophical Era! Test
Their result for The Find Your Philosophical Era! Test ...
The Ancient
38% Ancient, 6% Medieval, 25% Modern and 31% Post-Modern!
Congratulations! You are: an Ancient!
Ancient philosophers share an unabashed elitism. Although the Greeks are considered to have invented democracy, they would have laughed to scorn many of our 21st-century democratic ideas. Ancient moral philosophy is slightly more hedonistic than anything that followed it; the Ancients had strict ideas about right and wrong, but the obsessive pursuit of perfection, the compulsive need to do one’s duty no matter the cost, belong to later eras. Being good was neatly tied up in the Ancient mind with being happy.
Rather than criticizing the work of their predecessors, Ancient philosophers found themselves alone in a bold new world. Their first attempts at studying the world are still some of the best. This is the era of Herodotus, the father of history, Euclid, the father of mathematics, and Plotinus, the father of meaningless metaphysical bullshit.
Some typical ancient philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Herodotus, Euclid
Some ancient artists: Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar, Sappho, Praxiteles
Typical ancient art forms: epic poetry, lyric poetry, farce, satire, sculpture, dialogue
Their Analysis (Vertical line = Average)
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They scored 38% on Ancient, higher than 92% of your peers.
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They scored 6% on Medieval, higher than 20% of your peers.
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They scored 25% on Modern, higher than 23% of your peers.
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They scored 31% on Post-Modern, higher than 64% of your peers.
All possible test results
The Post-Modern
Congratulations! You are: a Post-Modern! Congratulations! Unlike everyone else, you Post-Moderns were born in the right era. You can even influence the further development of Post-Modernism!... Read more
The Modern
Congratulations! You are: a Modern! (Keep in mind, by Modern, I mean the era which began around the 17th century and ended in the 20th century.) Throughout the Modern era, philosopher... Read more
The Ancient
Congratulations! You are: an Ancient! Ancient philosophers share an unabashed elitism. Although the Greeks are considered to have invented democracy, they would have laughed to scorn many of... Read more
The Medieval
Congratulations! You are: a Medieval! Medieval philosophy is probably more pessimistic than any other. One really gets the sense that medieval thinkers lived in a cold, dark, unreliable worl... Read more
