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Jan. 20th, 2008 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winneganfakeYour Score: The Phenomenologist
You scored 60 Materialism and 80 Phenomenology!
You're up and ready to take in a big breath of epoche, you're the Phenomenologist!
While you recognize the importance of the traditional hard sciences, you also realize that the Theory of Special Relativity makes a really lousy sonnet. Life is composed of experiences, and reducing them to simple physical processes, you realize, makes about as much sense as discussing James Joyce as if his books were only paper and ink.
So, Phenomenologist, go out today and start bracketing the crap out of your sensory experiences!
Thinkers you may agree with: Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler
Thinkers that may challenge you: Daniel Dennett, Jacques Derrida
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Date: 2008-01-20 05:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-20 06:19 pm (UTC)Your Score: The Reductionist
You scored 80 Materialism and 0 Phenomenology!
You're the reductionist. All you see when you look at the world is a collection of physical processes playing themselves out. You don't have much use for art and probably consider all religion at best harmless silliness and at worst dangerous irrationality we would all do better to be rid of. You might even consider psychology a soft science, modern folk superstitition that one day we will have no more use for.
You probably have a keen interest in science and a deep loathing for ideology masquerading as science like Intelligent Design.
While your commitment to truth is inspiring, you might want to reconsider your position on poetics. Not everyone can live in the totally material plane you do; maybe some of that stuff you consider a waste of time helps some people live sane lives in an essentially insane universe.
Thinkers you may agree with: Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, E.O. Wilson, Matt Ridley
Thinkers to challenge you: Don Cupitt, Claude Levi-Strauss, Karl Popper, Jacques Derrida
My score doesn't add to 100 'cause there were two questions with no "right" answer.
Also, way to assume that because I don't endow art with any inherent meaning that I don't have any use for it, jerkface test writer.