Your favorite philosopher

[brentspeak]

I mean real, honest-to-goodness philosophers. Plato? Aristotle? Confucius? Aquinas? Descartes? Kant? Hegel? Kierkegaard? Nietzsche? Etc.

[Parche]

1. Midlodemocratus

She found the theory of Pedeggula :hi:

[JVS]

35. Testocles is the best philosopher.

[Parche]

45. he has balls

:woohoo: :hi:

[evlbstrd]

2. George Carlin.

Honest.

[trof]

6. Seconded. My first thought.

[evlbstrd]

17. I do believe he used the Socratic method.

[rug]

3. Democritus.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Rene Girard, Bill Hicks (yes, I think he's a philosopher), Meister Eckhart, Carl Sagan

[LaurenG]

5. Sagan?

I do like him.

[KitchenWitch]

13. I like Meister Eckhart as well.

[Shine]

7. Where are the women on your list?

:shrug:

Carol Gilligan

Virginia Woolfe

Hannah Arendt

Simone de Beauvoir


just to name a few..... :D

[mcctatas]

8. Jeremy Bentham....

I am at my core, a utilitarian.

[Aristus]

29. How many dead bodies do you have at your place to remind you of the joys

of utilitarianism?

:+

[mcctatas]

33. Do you really think I keep them around?

[Aristus]

43. Well, according to Bentham, keeping them around was one of the joys of utilitarianism.

Propping them up in the garden. Having them join you for tea. Taking them on picnics. That's more than Bentham gets. He attends every board meeting, but never votes. Poor guy... B-)

[mcctatas]

46. You have to admit, he is a great looking stiff...

[Aristus]

65. He had some weird ideas, but he was a great liberal.

Come on, mcctatas, you gotta be pretty impressed at how well I know about Jeremy Bentham... B-)

[mcctatas]

70. I admit...

it's kinda hot! :loveya:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Mick Jagger.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need.

[KSinTX]

10. Definitely Aristotle

With a hint of Kant and a dash of J. S. Mill.

[Chan790]

11. Hume.

[YankeyMCC]

12. Epicurus nt

[harmonicon]

14. Nietzsche

However, I also really like Deleuze, and I'd like to read more Badiou.

[arcadian]

15. Reggie from down the street.

n/t

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

16. Reinhold Niebuhr

influenced me a lot when I read his work back in college, and his approach to politics - "the search for proximate solutions to insoluble problems" still makes a lot of sense.

[pokerfan]

18. Epicurus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus">

[soleft]

19. Who said this?

If you bring out that which is inside you, that which is inside you will save you. If you don't bring out that which is inside you, that which is inside you will destroy you.



Since this is my favorite philosophical phrase, the guy who said it is my favorite philosopher.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. The Jesus dude.

:hi:

I like his philosophy too.

[soleft]

39. Yep!

[UndertheOcean]

20. I have to pick two : Spinoza and Kierkegaard

[blitzen]

21. Averroes, Al-Farabi, or Maimonides. Hegel and Heidegger, too.

[crim son]

22. Kierkegaard, hands down.

He's the only one I bothered to read after I graduated from college.

[leeroysphitz]

23. Voltaire.

All your really good philosophers were smart-asses at heart.

[Unvanguard]

24. Immanuel Kant, hands down.

For the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, and for the actual Metaphysic of Morals.

[Ivan Sputnik]

25. Derrida

Not because I find his ideas (his "discourse" or whatever) appealing, but because he actually provoked a lot of heated debate in the dusty corner of academia known as philosophy.

[Rambis]

64. Agree

There were some lively discussions in one of my classes. The prof didn't wear a watch and sometimes we would be there three hours if no one said anything or realized we had been at it that long.
Good times, my brain was ticking along like a well oiled machine back then. Now?

[flvegan]

26. Dr. Steven Best, PhD and yes, Mohandas Gandhi

[enigmatic]

27. Norman O. Brown

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Socrates

I've been a fan ever since he scored the winning goal against the Germans. :thumbsup:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiZt79UKUFQ



Props also to Archimedes for the assist. :thumbsup:

[buzzycrumbhunger]

30. Alan Watts

Free iTunes lectures, highly recommended. The South Park guys also discovered him a while ago and did some fun videos here and here.

[deutsey]

44. Some good lectures here:

http://deoxy.org/watts.htm

I pretty much ride around and listen to him on my CD player. Each time I re-hear a lecture, I see a new level to it.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

62. Oooh--you should subscribe to the podcasts

I think his son is archiving everything, eventually. The longer lectures are broken into parts to make it easier to chew, and I think so far there are a couple dozen episodes. I've also got the videos snagged from YouTube, which are fun.

[hellbound-liberal]

68. Alan Watts is also high on my list

One of my friends once called him the "K-Mart Buddha". I like (and understand) most of what he has written. I also agree with most of it!

[rucky]

69. Watts for me, too.

[travelingtypist]

32. F.H. Bradley

Catherine Keller, Alfred North Whitehead, Robert M. Pirsig, Camile Paglia,
Hegel, Jung, and Plato.

Love the soaring generalities, can't stand the lists.

[JVS]

34. Aquinas isn't a philospher, he's a scholastic theologian.

[rug]

47. Theology is philosophy.

Besides, his synthesis of Aristotle with Christian theology defined European philosophy for three hundred years.

[JVS]

36. Charles Bukowski!

[proud patriot]

37. spicoli

[bif]

38. Lily Tomlin

Who said: "No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up."

[terrya]

40. Bertrand Russell

[tigereye]

41. Kierkegaard

but I've also had a great fondness for Berkeley.

[BurtWorm]

42. Epicurus, Spinoza, Hume, Voltaire.

I like the rationals.

[PassingFair]

52. What you said...PLUS J.S. Mill...

my woman-loving, human philosopher.


On edit: Can't forget Seneca.

[NoGOPZone]

48. Yogi Berra nt

[ellisonz]

49. Hobbes, Marx, Arendt

[knowbody0]

50. Bukowski

[billyskank]

51. All I know is that it isn't Nietzsche.

I have serious problems with his philosophy.

[mcctatas]

55. World class douchebag that one!

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."

"You’re going to women? Don’t forget your whip!"

"Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possess an instinct for the secondary role."

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

:puke:

[billyskank]

58. You're not wrong.

Screw it, Friedrich!

[jpgray]

53. I always liked Hume. He's my favorite skeptic.

[av8rdave]

54. Sam Kinnison

[Haole Girl]

56. José Ortega y Gasset

[brentspeak]

67. I studied his work in a college intellectual history class

Took me a while to grasp what he meant that all scientific breakthroughs are really imagination-manufactured things.

[Haole Girl]

71. I loved the way he referred to most people as "somnambulists"

And his book "On Love" is amazing. Unfortunately, it is out of print & I had to borrow it from a library to read it. I'd love to get a copy of it someday.

[Call Me Wesley]

57. Ernst Bloch, Heidegger and Wittgenstein. (nt)

[applegrove]

59. I totally cannot stand philosophy. I can't process it. I once tried to take a

beginner's course of philosophy but quit after one class. I like stuff that is based in discernable reality and I cannot stand theories.

[peruban]

60. Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus

I'm an existentialist at heart. I like to create my own meaning as I go about my life through acts and knowledge.

[RagAss]

61. Wei Wu Wei

http://www.weiwuwei.8k.com/osi.html

[Gidney N Cloyd]

63. John Blutarsky

[sohndrsmith]

66. Walt Kelly, Mark Twain, Lao Tzu, Abraham Lincoln, Victor Frankl.