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Your favorite philosopher?

Right now I'm pretty into Nietzsche's stuff.

But I don't want to go getting too hung up on having a favorite philosopher, because I'd rather actually engage in philosophical analysis (and actual application) rather than set past philosophers up on pedestals and live with my head in the clouds.

Take what is useful and leave all else behind.
 
Marduk said:
Oscar Wilde
I'm sure I'm not alone in that
:D
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""People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."
 
Only a few of these have an "S" in their name.


Umm...waiter? This thread isn't any good.
 
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All of them .... even the "bad" (in my opinion) ones have played a formative role in my thought development​

But if I had to name just one I would say
Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Thomas Paine, Robert Ingersoll, Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Christopher Hitchens​
:D
 
Bentham and Foucault, though Foucault has a penchant for sophistry that borders the fanatical.

Oh, and Bill Watterson
 
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Wittgenstein, the best in my opinion.

He hate philosophy and gave a new meaning to it.
 
Carl Sagan was a bit of a philosopher. He stimulated philosophical ideas that were based on scientific facts.

In this regard, so was Richard Feynman and to a lesser degree, Richard Dawkins.

Not to mention Neil Degrasse Tyson.


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Okay, I'm done.
 
MNBrant said:
I like Aristotle.
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"Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,"

From Monty Pythons Philosophers Song.

The complete lyrics:

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table. David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel, And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'
'Bout the raising of the wrist. SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Plato, they say, could stick it away; Half a crate of whiskey every day. Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his dram, And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am" Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

Note to self: must stop listening to Monty Python songs....for a while, anyway.
 
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