| Favourite Philosophers |
| Plato |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Aristotle |
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7% |
[ 2 ] |
| Stoic |
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7% |
[ 2 ] |
| Medieval |
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7% |
[ 2 ] |
| Spinoza |
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7% |
[ 2 ] |
| Hume |
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17% |
[ 5 ] |
| Berkeley |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Kant |
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7% |
[ 2 ] |
| Hegel |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| John Stuart Mill |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Marx |
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10% |
[ 3 ] |
| Freud |
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3% |
[ 1 ] |
| Nietzche |
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25% |
[ 7 ] |
| Heidegger |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Wittgenstein |
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7% |
[ 2 ] |
| Derrida |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
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you_are_what_you_is
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| Saturn wrote: | | you_are_what_you_is wrote: | Paul Feyerabend. He earns bonus points because I find him enormously witty and entertaining to read, and, although I have plenty of disagreements with him on specifics, I find that his attitude and approach to philosophy (and life in general) resonates very strongly with me. He's surely had far more influence on me than any other philosopher.
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Another one I'd like to find out about. Thanks for the recommendation. |
If you are interested in him, "Against Method" is the place most people start. A word of warning: it's worth having some awareness of the history of philosophy of science up to that point, and it's worth trying to forget anything you might have read about Feyerabend elsewhere. In my opinion, a lot of people seriously misunderstand the book, but that shouldn't be a problem as long as you have a bit of background knowledge and don't read it with any silly preconceptions.
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peebo
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| Saturn wrote: | | peebo wrote: | | you missed out sartre. i think he should be on there. |
Why Sartre? I've had a look at him but never been drawn to explore him more fully. |
because he wrote nausea, one of the best and perhaps most philosophical novels i've read.
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Awesomelyglorious
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Honestly, the idea of doing a poll is ridiculous. Too many major figures (and minor figures) that could be left out.
I mean, do you even want me to start trying to write out a list of all of the people you could(and in some sense should have) have included but didn't? Even my list will miss a lot of people as well, and that's a really big problem with this kind of poll. However, I mean, you could have included Thomas Kuhn, a philosopher of science whose concept of the "paradigm shift" has gone so far as to reach other disciplines and popular intellectual discourse. You could have included Bertrand Russell or AJ Ayer, or some representative of early Analytical philosophy. And so on and so forth. Even further your list is biased towards figures of continental philosophy.(and even then incomplete given that Sartre and/or other representatives of existentialism are left off, as are continental religious philosophers)
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you_are_what_you_is
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| Awesomelyglorious wrote: | | Honestly, the idea of doing a poll is ridiculous. Too many major figures (and minor figures) that could be left out. |
I tend to read these threads as "favourite from this list". That's pretty much how he tells us to intepret it ("you could choose your least disfavourite").
I agree that it's an odd selection though (especially with the "Stoic" and "Medieval" options).
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Awesomelyglorious
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| you_are_what_you_is wrote: | | Awesomelyglorious wrote: | | Honestly, the idea of doing a poll is ridiculous. Too many major figures (and minor figures) that could be left out. |
I tend to read these threads as "favourite from this list". That's pretty much how he tells us to intepret it ("you could choose your least disfavourite").
I agree that it's an odd selection though (especially with the "Stoic" and "Medieval" options).
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Yeah, I interpret them as well, but... the problem is that these lists are always going to have some bias to them, and this bias makes these lists a bit silly. The favorite you have from a list that is incomplete seems a pretty flawed approach.
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fraac
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| Me, obv. |
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Brony2011
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| Saturn wrote: | | Brony2011 wrote: | I picked Spinoza, but I would feel better if this poll wasn't a single choice. Is it possible to make ones that allow mulitiple selections?
And Kierkegaard is also missing. He's my other favorite. |
It doesn't seem to be possible. I know it can be frustrating to be forced into one choice. Why Spinoza and why Kierkegaard? |
That is somewhat disappointing.
And this seems incredibly esoteric to me, but my reasons are because of my personal religious and philosophical development. As a teenager, I went from having been raised as a Fundamentalist to no longer believing in or agreeing with it and shifting into a non-denominational Christian Existentialist, and Kierkegaard was at the time one of my greatest influences, so it was one of my favorite topics for awhile.
Currently, I'm most closely a "Gnostic Christian" and can go on and on to people about Gnosticism. Spinoza is one of the few well-known philosophers who more closley resembles my own beliefs and was also one of my major influences during college, having moved away from Kierkegaard and Existentialism. |
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Abgal64
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Confucius and Mozi were not choices, so I chose Marx.
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Abgal64
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Medieval philosophy could include anyone from Nezahualcoyotl to Zhu Xi.
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| BAUDRILLARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Daj
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| his intellectual prophecys have been proven time and again, inthe past few years. |
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peebo
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| Daj wrote: | | BAUDRILLARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
yes. debord also should be on the list.
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ruveyn
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Nietzche and Marx currently have the plurality. This forum has more than its share of mindless barbarians. Nietzche was an insane syphylitic an Marx was completely illogical. Anyone who follows Hegal is of dubious mentality.
Why do people disdain good old British Empiricism which is a sensible philosophy that sane folk can follow.
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peebo
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| ruveyn wrote: | Anyone who follows Hegal is of dubious mentality.
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you must concede at least that it was always a critical following, though. his conclusions were consistently a negation of hegel.
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