Favourite Philosophers and Spiritual Teachers?

[Lark]

Who is your favourite thinker and dispenser of sage advice people?

 

[Robert165]

Who is your favourite thinker and dispenser of sage advice people?

Krishnamurti
Marcus Aurelius
Lao Tzu

 

[The_Liquid_Laser]

I'm sure it's cheating to say someone like Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad.

Barring that I'd have to go with Socrates.

 

[human101]

Spinoza, ayn rand, bertraand russell and kant

 

[Thursday]

Me - Emerson - Thoreau

 

[onemoretime]

The Dude.

 

[Lark]

Updates ignore list appropriately

 

[Venom]

anyone not like ayn.rand

 

[poppy]

Thich Nhat Hanh.

 

[Mole]

My favourite teachers are -

Marshall McLuhan, the patron saint of the internet.

Ronald Laing, the anti-psychiatrist.

Simone Weil (pronounced Simone Vey), the first woman graduate of the Sorbonne, and a much loved mystic.

Martin Heidegger, the philosopher of existence.

And Anonymous, who wrote, "The Cloud of Unknowing".

 

[Polaris]

Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Nietzsche. I could as soon mention one of them alone as eat a sandwich without bread.

 

[ObliviousExistence]

I used to be a big fan of Socrates, Kierkegaard, Kant and Thoreau but lately I find myself more attracted to more practical\pragmatic thinkers like Montaigne, gracian, Emerson, Machiavelli, Nietzsche.

 

[Totenkindly]

- Søren Kierkegaard
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- René Descartes
- St. John of the Cross
- Teresa of Ávila
- Apostle Paul (believe it or not)
- John of Patmos
- Blaise Pascal
- Charles Darwin
- C.S. Lewis
- Albert Camus
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Carl Jung

Rand's sort of a mess IMO... great as a stepping stone but to someplace better, I think.
Nietzsche challenges my preconceptions, so I need to read some more of him.

 

[Stanton Moore]

Buddha
Krishnamurti

 

[Tiltyred]

Hermann Hesse

 

[Bougal]

Kant is my favorite

 

[compulsiverambler]

Thich Nhat Hanh.

Ditto

 

[Lark]

I used to like the existentialists but I've got to be honest they've worn out a bit and I'm more of a determinist than they were, in the main my stock response is Freud, Jung, Marx, Machavelli but there's others Sun Tzu, Balthazar, the almost all the pocket wisdom guys, I like reading Mill and Chris Rock has always made me laugh

 

[lowtech redneck]

In order of origin;

Edmund Burke

James Madison

J. S. Mill

F. A. Hayek

 

[human101]

I think Mark Twain was also a great thinker and Hegel