Borrowed from goreygalx

This little bit of introspective ammunition is found here.

1. Aquinas (100%)
2. Spinoza (83%)
3. Aristotle (76%)
4. St. Augustine (75%)
5. Stoics (62%)
6. Plato (59%)
7. Jeremy Bentham (50%)
8. Nietzsche (45%)
9. John Stuart Mill (44%)
10. Jean-Paul Sartre (43%)
11. David Hume (43%)
12. Cynics (39%)
13. Epicureans (38%)
14. Ayn Rand (36%)
15. Kant (35%)
16. Ockham (31%)
17. Thomas Hobbes (27%)
18. Nel Noddings (21%)
19. Prescriptivism (14%)

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Aquinas (1225 or ’27-1274)

All life has a purpose
Meeting this purpose allows one to be happy.
Happiness is to be found in the love of God.
God’s grace providing entrance into heaven creates the highest form of human happiness.
Short of heaven, a person can achieve a more limited form of happiness through a life of virtue and friendship.
Morality is not determined by the arbitrary will of God.
Morality is derived from human nature and the activities that are objectively suited to it.
The difference between right and wrong can be appreciated through the use of reason and reflection.
Religious reflection may supplement the use of reason and reflection to determine right from wrong.
Societies must enact laws to ensure the correct application of moral reasoning.
Human nature is good because God made it good.

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Spinoza, Baruch (later known as Benedictus)
(1632-1677)

Determinist
Something must have a desirable affect on man in order to be good
Must understand determinism of the world

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Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

The life of virtue is rewarding for the individual and the community.
The essence of a thing does not exist independent of the thing.
There is no completely universal idea of “the good.”
There is an individualized ideal form for all living things.
In living in accordance with their true nature, humans will find the most enjoyment out of reasoning.
An investigation of human nature can reveal how humans ought to act.
Humans have a pre-defined purpose.
People can have variations on the best way to exist in order to meet their purpose.
The mean between the extremes of any given characteristic is the ideal.
The rule of the “Golden Mean” is not to be applied mechanically
Aristotle discusses having practical knowledge as being able to have the right means to one’s action and the right ends

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D. all of the above.