Who are your favorite philosophers?

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Favorite Philosopher

Socrates	6%	[ 2 ]
Aristotle	3%	[ 1 ]
Plato	6%	[ 2 ]
Descartes	0%	[ 0 ]
Locke	3%	[ 1 ]
Hume	9%	[ 3 ]
Nietzsche	18%	[ 6 ]
Kant	15%	[ 5 ]
Russell	3%	[ 1 ]
Kierkegaard	6%	[ 2 ]
Marx	6%	[ 2 ]
Spinoza	0%	[ 0 ]
Rand	0%	[ 0 ]
Sartre	3%	[ 1 ]
Other	21%	[ 7 ]

Total votes : 33

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14 Jan 2011, 1:40 am

I do admire Socrates, the father of philosophy as we know it, although very enigmatic, who is a historic martyr for knowledge and reason. I also like David Hume.

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16 Jan 2011, 4:05 am

I voted Sartre, but where's Wittgenstein? The sexy devil deserves some recognition!

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16 Jan 2011, 6:55 am

georgewbush wrote:

I do admire Socrates, the father of philosophy as we know it, although very enigmatic, who is a historic martyr for knowledge and reason. I also like David Hume.

You forgot Hobbes. He has the only reasonable explanation for government written in the English language.

Hobbes and Hume are my champions.

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16 Jan 2011, 10:15 am

Actually, a Hobbesian view of government is questionable on many levels. Human beings are too social for it to all be pure hobbes.

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16 Jan 2011, 11:20 am

PanoramaIsland wrote:

I voted Sartre, but where's Wittgenstein? The sexy devil deserves some recognition!

Honestly, a lot of people aren't on the list.

Let's just look at the kinds of people not missing:
* No representative of American Pragmatism
* No philosophers of science, from Bacon to Popper to Kuhn to Feyerabend
* No postmodern philosophers, like Derrida, Foucault, or Baudrillard
* No John Rawls
* No non-Western thinkers, such as Confucius
* No Aquinas, Plantinga, or any other religious philosopher save Plato and Kierkegaard(who are unrepresentative)

And well... the list goes on and on, and it is not to the discredit of the OP. There are just TOO MANY philosophers. The list the OP gave is actually not bad at all, and is really fine in most senses for a representative list, even with all of the gaps.

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16 Jan 2011, 11:20 am

Btw, I voted Nietzsche.

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16 Jan 2011, 2:17 pm

georgewbush wrote:

I do admire Socrates, the father of philosophy as we know it, although very enigmatic, who is a historic martyr for knowledge and reason. I also like David Hume.

I like Socrates too. He was a pain in the arse and he manage to tick off everyone about him. My kind of philosopher.

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16 Jan 2011, 3:01 pm

Nietzsche is fantastic, if insane. Camus would be the most philosophically similar to me.

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16 Jan 2011, 3:11 pm

The concept created by Marx was very ingenious, unfortunately, it was not considerably practical, especially when applied to the largest nation on Earth.

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17 Jan 2011, 1:16 am

it seems you missed the only philosopher i would vote for.......chauncey gardner

"all will be well in the garden".

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17 Jan 2011, 1:54 am

Helixstein wrote:

The concept created by Marx was very ingenious, unfortunately, it was not considerably practical, especially when applied to the largest nation on Earth.

Marxism has been empirically falsified. It is bogus.

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17 Jan 2011, 2:02 am

ruveyn wrote:

Helixstein wrote:

The concept created by Marx was very ingenious, unfortunately, it was not considerably practical, especially when applied to the largest nation on Earth.

Marxism has been empirically falsified. It is bogus.

ruveyn

That, is your opinion. Despite the concept being unsuccessful when put into practice, the concept of equality is still very ingenious. Also, I believe the title of the forum is 'Who are your favourite philosophers?', not 'Who are Ruveyn's favourite philosophers?'

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17 Jan 2011, 2:10 am

Helixstein wrote:

Where has it ever worked. And what about Karl Marx's prediction about the inevitable collapse of Capitalism. Capitalism is alive (if not entirely well) and is being practiced in places such as Russia and China. The one country in the world where some variant of Marxism is strongly pursued is North Korea and that is a failed state. It is starving its own women and children.

Marxism has been proved bogus by actually historical facts. Empirical proof that it does not and cannot work.

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17 Jan 2011, 2:16 am

India and Cuba do not seem to be in too much strife. Once again, I shall state that I am not proclaiming that the concept will work, but rather that the ideology behind the concept is one to be admired. I think that I prefer Marx from all other Philosophers listed, why must you cause confrontation and drama because of my selection?

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17 Jan 2011, 2:19 am

Helixstein wrote:

India has a mixed economy, not a Marxist or Marxist Leninist System. Cuba is an economic cripple.

You prefer Marx for ideological reasons, not factual success. Marx advocated economic voodoo.

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17 Jan 2011, 2:23 am

ruveyn wrote:

Helixstein wrote:

Thank you kindly for your closing statement.

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