Which Existentialist Philosopher Are You?
Ajani Mgo | 29 April 2008 | 7:20 pmWell, I ain’t really a fan of all these online quizzes, not even to say put their results up on The Abridged Ajani, but this one is particularly interesting…
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You scored as Albert CamusYou are Albert Camus, so you are one sweet absurdist. He built largely upon the framework of existentialists before him, but introduced the concept that life is absurd, but that we should continue living anyway. You have strong liberal leanings, although you annoy the Communists. You are susceptible to driving fast, and possibly crashing into a tree.
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Well personally I am more familiar, and resonate more with Sartre and Nietzsche amongst the big existentialist names. Kierkegaard is fine, actually, but his “leap to faith” seems to just repeat what good ol’ Ecclesiastes mentioned a good few thousand years ago.
Camus - hmm, I have heard of this name. Perhaps the only reason why I would resonate with him is for his idea of the ‘absurd’ (which Kierkegaard mentioned before him), but it is not one of the most fundamental things in my existential style. Sartre lags close behind a really tight 3% - must be a slightly-skewed answer I gave there I think. But who cares? Sartre is but another “empty” vessel without intrinsic meaning. :p
Try the quiz, all ye existentialists - it’s quite fun actually, some of the questions are really absurd (meaning weird), heh.
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!
Now, recently I have read Camus’s The Fall. I would not discount the book’s attractiveness to me - but I was quite-surprised to read from the foreword about the close links Sartre and Camus shared; they were once good friends. Okay, by association to Sartre, I will let the quiz’s identification of me being somewhat Camus pass.
I think, maybe I like Sartre only because he popularized existentialism, and Nietzsche because he was the first existentialist I read about, though Kierkegaard was technically the first existentialist I knew about, only then I did not even know something called “existentialism” existed. :p