Monday 31 March 2008

Yakut Prayer

A wonderful poem from the Poetry Chaikhana --


Yakut Prayer

By Yakut (Anonymous)
(19th Century)

My words are tied in one
With the great mountains,
With the great rocks,
With the great trees,
In one with my body
And my heart.
Do you all help me
With supernatural power,
And you, Day,
And you, Night,
All of you see me
One with the world!


-- from The Essential Mystics: Selections from the World's Great Wisdom Traditions, Edited by Andrew Harvey

Thursday 6 March 2008

ethics

My ethics most closely match those of the Epicureans (though for many of the questions I ticked "Dislike all answer choices").

1. Epicureans (100%) Information link
2. John Stuart Mill (90%) Information link
3. Aquinas (86%) Information link
4. Jeremy Bentham (82%) Information link
5. Aristotle (76%) Information link
6. Nietzsche (64%) Information link
7. Thomas Hobbes (61%) Information link
8. Ayn Rand (59%) Information link
9. Nel Noddings (59%) Information link
10. Spinoza (59%) Information link
11. Jean-Paul Sartre (49%) Information link
12. Prescriptivism (49%) Information link
13. Cynics (46%) Information link
14. Kant (46%) Information link
15. Stoics (43%) Information link
16. Ockham (41%) Information link
17. David Hume (35%) Information link
18. St. Augustine (35%) Information link
19. Plato (25%) Information link


Find out what philosophical viewpoint matches your ethics.

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