POLL: Who is your favorite Philosopher and why?

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Keep in mind I made this list from memory so im sure I forgot a few big ones (mainly middle eastern I think) so if you see any glaring omitions list them and I will add. I also left out religious prophets, while they are indeed philosophers in large part, they are not considered such in traditional philosophy.

As far as my pick I would have to go with Rene Descartes, because I can wholly relate to his struggle with what constitutes truth, faith, and knowledge and how they reconcile in the mind. The first time I read his Discourse on Method I was shocked at how similar his thinking was to my own; though my thinking is not anywhere near as in-depth and organized as his. I also find his ontological reasoning behind the existance of God to be particularly compelling.

What about the rest of you?

 

[JLGatsby]

Thomas Paine FTW.

 

[Kwaipie]

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 Friedrich 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 whisky every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a ah heck for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
'I drink, therefore I am.'

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a ah heck when he's pissed.

 

[Ryan]

God is Dead.

That said - Descartes has been my least favorite.

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Originally posted by: Ryan
God is Dead.

Then why didnt you vote for Nietzsche?

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: CrazyHelloDeli

Originally posted by: Ryan
God is Dead.

Then why didnt you vote for Nietzsche?

Ideally - I would have hoped you have have included Simone de Beauvoir

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: CrazyHelloDeli

Originally posted by: Ryan
God is Dead.

Then why didnt you vote for Nietzsche?

Ideally - I would have hoped you have have included Simone de Beauvoir

Done

 

[PHiuR]

myself.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: CrazyHelloDeli

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: CrazyHelloDeli

Originally posted by: Ryan
God is Dead.

Then why didnt you vote for Nietzsche?

Ideally - I would have hoped you have have included Simone de Beauvoir

Done

TY. I like her, because she was the wife of Sartre, and I think was able to take many applications of his work, and use it as the catalyst for the woman's rights movement.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Kierkegaard, followed very, very, very closely by Robert Pirsig, with Pascal, Nietzsche, and Simone Weil running right behind.

Of course, Hobbes is well-represented also, and Locke, Hume and Paine are all good men and true... And then, of course, there are the Sophists of pre-Socratic Greece, there's much to be said for their elevation of rhetoric into an art form. And of course, Russell and Mill are certainly more than worth reading...

ZV

 

[thesurge]

Avicenna, Newton, Reid, Averroes, Vico, Wolff and Leibniz are some more.

 

[bobsmith1492]

CS Lewis

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
CS Lewis

Oooh good one. Cant beliveve I forgot him!

 

[apologetic]

Nietzsche

Even though I'm Christian, I cherish his arguments against the absolute authority of churches and leaders.

 

[tweakmm]

Terence McKenna.

 

[thesurge]

Originally posted by: CrazyHelloDeli

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
CS Lewis

Oooh good one. Cant beliveve I forgot him!

CS Lewis as in the Chronicles of Narnia author?
or do you mean
CI Lewis?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Kwaipie
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 Friedrich 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 whisky every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a ah heck for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
'I drink, therefore I am.'

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a ah heck when he's pissed.

That's the first thing that popped into my mind

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Originally posted by: thesurge

Originally posted by: CrazyHelloDeli

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
CS Lewis

Oooh good one. Cant beliveve I forgot him!

CS Lewis as in the Chronicles of Narnia author?
or do you mean
CI Lewis?

Yes, CS Lewis. He wrote many many other books than just Chronicles of Narnia all with deep, albeit religious, philisophical insights. They were also very uplifting and bright, which is very rare in most contemporary philosophy.

 

[Hyperion042]

Karl Popper. Father of modern scientific philosophy.

 

[Praxis1452]

Max Stirner =D pls.

though I love kierkegard as well.

edit: I do like the ontological argument however for me religion is kinda bland/

 

[Dirigible]

L-Witt. Hella L-Witt all the way. Numbered paragraphs pwn.

 

[DainBramaged]

I really liked Francis Schaffer.

 

[FlashG]

Siddhartha Gautama because in Buddhism you can achieve insight it if you believe in god or not.

 

[iamaelephant]

I don't know squat about philosophy but I voted David Hume because I agree with some quotes of his I read recently.

 

[5to1baby1in5]

I was always kind of partial to the Reverand Jim Jones. :evil: