Who's your favorite philosopher?

[James2k]

What about me, myself and I?

I am my own favourite philospher

 

[SuepaFly]

Kierkegaard is missing.

 

[ryzmah]

Godel - sure he went crazy at the end (thought he was being poisoned, so stopped eating and starved to death), but when he had an idea he went out and proved it was true.

 

[hawkeye81x]

Of course Rossman would choose Quark.
But then again, why would a Grand Nagus defer to a lowly smuggling bartender...

I choose Confucius.

Missing: Heidigger, Hagel, Husserl...

 

[Scorp]

"Philosophers helped us to interpret the world, but what's important is how to change it." -Karl Marx

 

[LeeTJ]

Ayn Rand does not qualify as a philosopher. she is just a novelist.

btw, i chose Nietzsche also.

had no idea he would be so popular.

 

[HarryAngel]

Well i have to say J. Krishnamurti "The First and Last Freedom" Had a great impact on me.

I liked Sartre as a novelist, he wrote some masterpieces really.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
Ayn Rand does not qualify as a philosopher. she is just a novelist.

Um, wrong.

Google Ayn Rand and Objectivism.

 

[LeeTJ]

i'm very familiar with her books. i at one time owned about 7 different books by her.

she is no more a philosopher than L. Ron Hubbard.

Just because someone is able to put together a series of thoughts doesn't make them a philosopher. otherwise any nef on ATOT could call himself a philosopher. a philosopher should represent an evolution of thought. she doesn't. she just regurgitates that which has already been stated.

i agree with most of her ideas, i just don't think they are original to her.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
i'm very familiar with her books. i at one time owned about 7 different books by her.

she is no more a philosopher than L. Ron Hubbard.

Just because someone is able to put together a series of thoughts doesn't make them a philosopher. otherwise any nef on ATOT could call himself a philosopher. a philosopher should represent an evolution of thought. she doesn't. she just regurgitates that which has already been stated.

i agree with most of her ideas, i just don't think they are original to her.

Ayn Rand is considered to be a philosopher. That you don't consider her one does not make her any less of one. Objectivism IS original to Rand.

BTW, her books are but a small part of her overall work.

 

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
i'm very familiar with her books. i at one time owned about 7 different books by her.

she is no more a philosopher than L. Ron Hubbard.

Just because someone is able to put together a series of thoughts doesn't make them a philosopher. otherwise any nef on ATOT could call himself a philosopher. a philosopher should represent an evolution of thought. she doesn't. she just regurgitates that which has already been stated.

i agree with most of her ideas, i just don't think they are original to her.

Ayn Rand is considered to be a philosopher. That you don't consider her one does not make her any less of one. Objectivism IS original to Rand.

BTW, her books are but a small part of her overall work.

what else has she done??

i read her novella, i read her two novels. i read "virtue of selfishness" and several other excerpts from her novels that were presented as philosophical works. so it's not that i'm not familiar with her work. i just didn't find it original.