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Who is your favorite philosopher?

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Mine is Arthur Schopenhauer. Being a really bad pessimist and misanthrope, I can relate to him more than any other philosopher. I fell in love with him after reading the short On the Suffering of the World.

I wish I could read his works in German, though :\
 

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a/ Maimonides
b/ Bertrand Russell
c/ Aristotle
d/ Diogenes
 

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nice topic.

well...

kant disciplined my mind and nietzsche took an axe to it. theirs were the theories i most enjoyed analyzing and debating in ug/grad school. unfortunately, like people, philosophies start to devolve with enough examination, so in the end i went with mathematical logic.

and in that realm, kurt gödel reigns supreme. :heart:


p.s. the greeks were fun but who wants to be poring over dusty old manuscripts and apocrypha? :irked:
 

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alexander putney, nassim haramein, walter russell
 

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I liked nietzsche for his almost german-like efficiency(j/k, lololol) and great storytelling, but (Bertrand) Russell and Sartre and R.A. Wilson influenced my worldview the most bestest.
 

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Rene Descartes.

Why? - Because he proved the most basic of all things.
He came to the conclusion that, if I am here, then there is something somewhere saying that I'm here, so I must exist, because, here I am. I think, therefore I am, or Cogito Ergo Sum.

The human race on occasion needs someone to discover something so basic to give us a kick up the back side and enlighten us... From time to time...
 

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some others i like are Leibniz and Spinoza, both definite INTPs
 

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I like him too^

Have a big soft spot for Schopie. John Stuart Mill is probably my fav tho. Just an exceedingly humane, enlightened individual.
 
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[MENTION=10757]Nicodemus[/MENTION], I'm curious as to who your favourite is, add to it that you study philosophy you must have a good knowledge of many of them and what they said.

I'm confused as to the true definition of the word philosophy. I've read -

Philosophy is Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.

So in this regard is Buddhism a philosophy? Or is it a psychotherapy? I'm more comfortable with the word psychotherapy to define it. Because the ultimate result of Buddhism is bliss/happiness. The goal though is Nirvana.
 
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Above all, myself. I've read a lot of Laozi and other Asian philosophy, I think that influenced my thinking a lot.
 

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Above all, myself. I've read a lot of Laozi and other Asian philosophy, I think that influenced my thinking a lot.

On a related note, Zhuangzi is also quite good, I couldn't really pick a "favorite" just a scatter plot of philosophers with interesting ideas.
 
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