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07 Dec 2009, 5:26 am

So after working in a philosophy factor I wonder who do you think is the greatest philosophe?

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07 Dec 2009, 2:10 pm

i'm in child within mode ... i vote for Nietzsche.

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07 Dec 2009, 2:28 pm

[quote="Eggman"]So after working in a philosophy factor I wonder who do you think is the greatest philosophe?[/quote

Of those philosophers who wrote in English, I nominate Hobbes and Hume.

Of those who wrote in German, I nominate Karl Popper.

Of those who wrote in Greek, I nominate Aristotle and Plato.

If we had more surviving written works I would nominate the philosophers from Ionia and Miletes.

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07 Dec 2009, 5:57 pm

I think Sinistar was the greastest one of the 80's

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08 Dec 2009, 4:59 am

Its a pity we have only fragments of his wisdom.

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08 Dec 2009, 1:49 pm

Do we even have a way to measure how great a philosopher is? <.<

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08 Dec 2009, 2:46 pm

phil777 wrote:

Do we even have a way to measure how great a philosopher is? <.<

No. One can use rankings done by other philosophers and historians of ideas, but those are subjective.

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08 Dec 2009, 8:30 pm

Eggman wrote:

Its a pity we have only fragments of his wisdom.

But still there are enough to show his take on the universe and our existence in it

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09 Dec 2009, 12:53 am

Epictetus
Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
________________Stoic philosophy, just great.

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09 Dec 2009, 1:32 am

I'd plump for Quine for the 20th century. Beyond that, Hume or Kant.

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09 Dec 2009, 10:51 am

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09 Dec 2009, 11:00 am

JRRTolkien wrote:

Hegel

What impact has Hegel had on the physical sciences?

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09 Dec 2009, 11:46 am

I'm gunna rock it oldschool and vote Epictetus.

Dude knew wtf he was talkin bout.

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10 Dec 2009, 12:15 am

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10 Dec 2009, 2:43 am

Marx

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12 Dec 2009, 3:47 pm

for someone contemporary (he died sometime in this decade):

robert anton wilson

also good at fiction/satire that made fun of conspiracy theories in a brilliant and hilarious way.

some of his nonfiction is top-notch thinking and philosophy.

the librarians are never sure where to put him, tho sometimes he can indeed be found in the philosophy shelves.

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