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Favorite Philosopher

Jredbaron96

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So, who is your favorite philosopher? Anyone from any time period will do.

Mine is either Nietchze, or Kant.
 
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we have lots of favorite philosopher threads:2razz:
 
None. They all strike me as dabblers, scribblers and alchemists. And anyone who tries to emulate them are aiming too low.
 
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None. They all strike me as dabblers, scribblers and alchemists. And anyone who tries to emulate them are aiming too low.
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We're not trying to emulate them, we're trying to learn from them. The entire point of inventing writing was that knowledge isn't lost to the forgetfulness of ages. If we aren't going to learn from those before us then we are truly a hopeless species of hominids like the ones before us.

Philosophy isn't about people, it's about ideas.

In any case, my favorite philosopher would have to be either Marcus Tullius Cicero or Machiavelli.
 
Probably the classics, Hobbes, Locke, Pain. I am quite the fan of Kant, I like his arguments for natural rights from reason and intellect.
 
Engels, Herbert Marcuse, Socrates, Antonio Gramsci, Marx, and Mill.
 
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So, who is your favorite philosopher?
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Socrates.

No contest.

His "Socratic method" of validating the truth of any claim is universal and independent of any human bias.

Unfortunately, religion plunged Western societies in deep dark superstition, fear and ignorance for the next 3 thousand years and it's still in control...
 
Specklebang is not only a great philosopher - he offers discounts that no other philosopher has ever offered.

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Jack Nicholson.
 
Kant is up there ... As is Bertrand Russell, Marx was a great economist but imo not that great a philosopher. I also like Kirkenguard and Satres Existentialism
 
Impossible to determin without criteria. Still, I'm inclined to say Wittgenstein, because of his influence on analytic philosophy.

I've tried to read Kants work several times..., difficult to understand, horrible to read.
 
I've tried to read Kants work several times..., difficult to understand, horrible to read.
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Kant, like Hagel, should'nt be read ... You read other guys that write about them ... They were horrible writers.
 
RGacky3 said:
Kant, like Hagel, should'nt be read ... You read other guys that write about them ... They were horrible writers.
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Any you would recommend?
 
Nietzsche, J.L. Mackie, and Peter Singer
 
Any you would recommend?
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Can't think of any off the top of my head, but honestly, almost all ... especially continental philosophers, are impossible to read, its better to get some dumbed down stuff. (only speaking for myself here).

Continental philosophers LOVE to make simple ideas extremely complicated.
 
RGacky3 said:
Kant, like Hagel, should'nt be read ... You read other guys that write about them ... They were horrible writers.
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Hegel? ................
 
William James. Reading such original, independent, and effective writers made me proud to be American.
 
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