If you want further clarification and explanation of the questions, try this article
Answer strongly agree, somewhat agree, yes and no/neutral,
somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree to each one.
1. The Heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know.
2. The senses cannot be trusted to give us the truth.
3. There is a rational explanation for everything, since events are produced according to physical laws.
4. Your thoughts and beliefs create your reality.
5. Reason leads us to discover the general truths and ideas that explain all existing things.
6. If you would know the truth of life, look inward into yourself.
7. Since we’re all different, and times change, there can’t be universal standards of right and wrong.
8. Do not seek your treasure in the things of this world, but only in the eternal things.
9. Reality is fluid and ever-changing; thus forever beyond the grasp of the rigid, abstract concepts & categories of our thought and language.
10. Ultimately, the universe is made of solid and indivisible particles.
11. The universe is unfolding according to a divine plan and order.
12. A human has no fixed character, but only a history; you must choose your character and meaning of life.
13. Spirit or mind creates the world, and all our science can only describe the effects after-the-fact.
14. Faith is unreliable; we’d better trust to what we know
15. Psychic abilities exist, proving mind over matter.
16. All knowledge is based on experience and observation; rational theories alone are only meaningless abstractions.
17. Act on moral principles as best you know them, rather than yielding to the temptations and passions of the moment.
18. With understanding and clear, logical thinking, you can solve almost any problem and increase your control of events.
19. You can’t wait until you have the answers; you’re not fully alive unless you are taking a risk.
20. Our personal souls will survive death, and perhaps be back on earth for another go-round.
21. The soul can only be free by overcoming the body.
22. I am not a number, I am a free man! (or woman)
23. Human consciousness and behavior can be fully explained in terms of the electro-chemistry of the brain and nervous system.
24. As Plato proved, a child has innate knowledge of mathematics; therefore eternal and rational truths exist.
25. Human history is largely explanable in terms of economic and technological conditions.
26. The best way to live is to follow the delightful energies of the body. Reason is only the outer bounds of energy.
27. Science will eventually give us most of the answers to what seems uncertain to us today.
28. There are universal symbols and archetypes that keep appearing in our experience.
29. Mathematics is probably one of the closest things to truth you can find.
30. Seeing is believing; whatever can’t be touched, observed or tested experimentally probably doesn’t exist.
31. By transcending the delusions of your thinking mind, you discover that you are not a separate ego, but are one with a greater being.
32. This is the best of all possible worlds; seen from God’s viewpoint, all evil fits into a greater good.
33. God does not exist.
Indicate your answers here by circling your score for each question in the appropriate box. Where two scores are listed, circle both.
| strongly agree | somewhat agree | yes&no/neutral | somewhat disagree | strongly disagree |
| 1. 4E 2S | 2E 1S | 2R 1M | 4R 2M | |
| 2. 3R 2S | 2R 1S | 2E 1M | 3E 2M | |
| 3. 3R 3M | 2R 2M | 2E 2S | 3E 3S | |
| 4. 4S | 2S | 2M | 4M | |
| 5. 4R | 2R | 2E | 4E | |
| 6. 1E 4S | 1E 2S | 1R 2M | 1R 4M | |
| 7. 4E | 2E | 2R | 4R | |
| 8. 2R 4S | 1R 2S | 1E 2M | 2E 4M | |
| 9. 4E | 2E | 2R | 4R | |
| 10. 4M | 2M | 2S | 4S | |
| 11.3R 3S | 2R 2S | 2E 2M | 3E 3M | |
| 12.4E | 2E | 2R | 4R | |
| 13. 4S | 2S | 2M | 4M | |
| 14.3R 2M | 2R 1M | 2E 1S | 3E 2S | |
| 15. 4S | 2S | 2M | 4M | |
| 16.4E | 2E | 2R | 4R | |
| 17.4R | 2R | 2E | 4E | |
| 18.4R | 2R | 2E | 4E | |
| 19.4E | 2E | 2R | 4R | |
| 20. 4S | 2S | 2M | 4M | |
| 21.2R 4S | 1R 2S | 1E 2M | 2E 4M | |
| 22.3E 2S | 2E 1S | 2R 1M | 3R 2M | |
| 23. 4M | 2M | 2S | 4S | |
| 24.4R | 2R | 2E | 4E | |
| 25. 4M | 2M | 2S | 4S | |
| 26.4E 2M | 2E 1M | 2R 1S | 4R 2S | |
| 27.2R 4M | 1R 2M | 1E 2S | 2E 4S | |
| 28.3R 2S | 2R 1S | 2E 1M | 3E 2M | |
| 29.4R | 2R | 2E | 4E | |
| 30.2E 3M | 1E 2M | 1R 2S | 2R 3S | |
| 31.2E 4S | 1E 2S | 1R 2M | 2R 4M | |
| 32. 4S | 2S | 2M | 4M | |
| 33. 4M | 2M | 2S | 4S |
Add your circled scores here:
| ___E ___S | ___E ___S | ___E ___S | ___E ___S | |
| ___R ___M | ___R ___M | ___R ___M | ___R ___M |
Then add all the E scores across the columns above _______
Then all the S scores ________
Then all the R scores ________
Then all the M scores ________
Write the larger letter scores above the smaller letter scores here:
| E and R | S and M |
| _______ | ________ |
| minus _______ | minus ________ |
| equals _______ | equals ________ |
For example:
| E and R | S and M |
| 30E | 20S |
| minus 20R | minus 10M |
| equals 10E | equals 10S |
The meaning of the scores: what is your philosophy?
1-25 R = somewhat intellectual; You rely on reason and distrust feelings
and experiences
25-50 R = definitely intellectual
50-75 R = extremely intellectual
1-25 E = somewhat experiential; You rely on your experience more
than reason
25-50 E = definitely experiential
50-75 E = extremely experiential
1-25 S = somewhat spiritualist; Spiritual realities are
prior to and explain material ones
25-50 S = definitely spiritualist
50-75 S = extremely spiritualist
1-25 M = somewhat materialist; Material realities are prior to
and explain spiritual ones
25-50 M = definitely materialist
50-75 M = extremely materialist
If you are R and S, you are essentialist: universal ideas and archetypes
are primary reality
If you are R and M, you are rationalist: the universe operates according
to causal, logical laws
If you are E and S, you are existentialist: spontaneous flux of inner
being is the primary reality
If you are E and M, you are empiricist: the test of experience determines
truth
The approach to thinking shown by your score matches these Jungian functions and MBTI temperaments, although your temperament itself may be different:
R/S essentialist = N intuitive
R/M rationalist = T thinking
E/S existentialist = F feeling
E/M empiricist = S sensing
Your score places you in one of 32 quadrants. A circle can be drawn around them. This is the Magic Circle of Philosophy, or Wisdom Wheel. Here I will only show the quadrants. Imagine a circle around them.
I have estimated 2 defining keywords for each quadrant, and shown philosophers
and traditions who I think may occupy them (positions are necessarily approximate).
The quadrants in the opposite positions to each other, and same distance
from the center, have opposite and complementary meanings.
| 50-75S
25-50R Asceticism Abstraction Augustine |
50-75S
0-25R Esoterics Revelation Metaphysics Plotinus |
50-75S
0-25E Spiritism Psychism Mysticism Jesus(at 0 R/E) |
50-75S
25-50E Transcendence Solipcism Berkeley Kierkegaard |
||
| 25-50S
50-75R Essence Forms Plato Pythagoras |
25-50S
25-50R Truth Eternal values Principles Classicism Leibniz |
25-50S
0-25R Theology Theosophy Hegel Aquinas Kant (30S) |
25-50S
0-25E Aspiration Faith Jung Teilhard de Chardin Buddha (20E) |
25-50S
25-50E Awareness Awe Romanticism Schopenhauer James Alan Watts Jos.Campbell |
25-50S
50-75E Existence Becoming Bergson Heidegger Heraclitus |
| 0-25S
50-75R Order Doctrine Parmenides Spinoza |
0-25S
25-50R Purpose Ideals Epictetus Stoicism Aristotle |
0-25S
0-25R Theory Ideas Whitehead |
0-25S
0-25E Reverence NatureWorship Pantheists Neo-pagans Quantum Theory |
0-25S
25-50E Flux Adventure Authenticity |
0-25S
50-75E Nihilism Absurdity Nietzsche Sartre |
| 0-25M
50-75R Formulae Mathematics Descartes |
0-25M
25-50R Calculation Structure Empedocles |
0-25M
0-25R Explanation Manipulation Voltaire Einstein G.E.Moore |
0-25M
0-25E Pragmatism Utilitarianism Mill Bentham Anaxagoras |
0-25M
25-50E Relativism Chance Skeptics |
0-25M
50-75E Chaos Iconoclasm Nominalism Hume |
| 25-50M
50-75R Logic Geometry Euclid |
25-50M
25-50R Natural Law Reliability Mechanics Hawking |
25-50M
0-25R Prediction Engineering Freud Russell Marx Santayana |
25-50M
0-25E Verification Secularism Experiment Dewey Carnap |
25-50M
25-50E Sophism Evidence Locke Epicureans |
25-50M
50-75E Sense- Perception Wittgenstein-- (later years) |
| 50-75M
25-50R Necessity Automism Newtonian-- Physics |
50-75M
0-25R Atomism Determinism Hobbes Democritus |
50-75M
0-25E Positivism Objectivism Darwin Lucretius |
50-75M
25-50E Tangibility Carnality Bacon Skinner |