Who's your favorite philosopher?

[terrya]

Which philosopher speaks to your life the best?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Hume, probably.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Hume, Voltaire

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. "Jesus Christ"

"he changed my heart"

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. Jesus is a surgeon?

KEWL! I want another leg!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. From what Hedges told me you already have a 3rd leg

;)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

13. No. That's Hedges.

[sui generis]

16. and a third nipple /nt

[Magrittes Pipe]

22. Well, without the third, the fourth just wouldn't make sense, would it?

:shrug:

[sui generis]

25. more than three nipples = teats

I was just guessing about you being a marsupial before, now I'm sure!

B-)

[Wickerman]

4. Jesus

- GWB

sorry, someone had to. :)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. beat ya to it

:)

[Wickerman]

15. Damn you, you speak the truth

you did!

:7

[Teaser]

6. Heidegger...

then Husserl. I like Frege quite a bit as well. For modern stuff, Derrida get's an unfortunately bad rap because of his overzealous (and foolish) disciples, but I like him quite a bit. Kant and Habermas round out the list.

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. Oh dear, you must be a very dull person.

(j/k)

I too find myself digging on some Frege from time to time; and Russell and Wittgenstein flow from the same font.

I went to college with Richard Rorty's daughter, as if anyone cares.

[Teaser]

18. You have no idea. :)

In my spare time, I'm teach myself other languages for fun...if I can't get a hold of a good philosophy text to read.

Good thing my wife doesn't mind not having a life...

Rorty, huh? I like him in the abstract. Meaning, I've read a lot about him, and his post-modern pragmatism, but I've never actually read him. He's probably too much a fan of clarity in writing for me to truly enjoy. All my faves (Heidegger, Derrida, etc) are so full of neologisms and oddly structured phrases that reading them (even in English) is often an act of translation. I suppose it's perverse that I enjoy that.

[tigereye]

42. I dragged out some desconstruction articles recently

foolish me. First there is no mountain, then there is.

Why people love obfuscation is befond my comprehension. Although I suppose there is some attraction to the chaos of language. "Beauty must be convulsive or not at all?"

Everyone I have every known who has a PHD or was working on one decries obfuscation, yet at the same time revels in it. :)

[StopTheMorans]

7. camus

n/t

[redqueen]

9. Boehme

[mairceridwen]

10. Simone de Beauvoir

of course.

And Foucault...he doesn't speak to my life so much as he inspires a lot of critical thinking

[tigereye]

43. I was reading recently that Beauvoir was heavily mistranslated

by someone unfamiliar with her philosphy,but that her publisher was unwilling to fund a retranslation.

[LuminousX]

14. John Stuart Mill, Locke, Aristotle

With a healthy dose of Henry James and Thoreau guided by Spinoza.


How can I pick just one?!

[mosin]

39. We have similar tastes

John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Friedrich Hayek and many, many others...

I enjoy many philosophers with whom I don't completely agree.

[mac56]

41. second on Mill

nm

[DelawareValleyDem]

17. Sartre, Rousseau, Descartes

I agree with LuminousX, picking just one is tough.

[Ron Green]

30. Sartre is a fartre.

...Nietzche is pietzche! (not really, of course)

[underpants]

19. Yogi Berra

http://www.yogi-berra.com/yogiisms.html

"Never answer an anonymous letter"

" You can observe a lot by watching "

" If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them "

" The future ain't what it used to be "

[johnnie]

20. Mine is a little more of the modern era

Alan Watts. Does he count?

[soothsayer]

21. Nicolas de Cusa

And Hegel.

[Crunchy Frog]

23. Immanuel Kant was a real pissant

He was very rarely stable.
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table. :D

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. St Thomas Aquinas

Brought Aristotle into Catholicism

[tigereye]

44. nice icon

on both levels!

[noonwitch]

26. Shakespeare

I know he wasn't technically a philosopher, but he had good insight.

[CarolynEC]

28. William Blake, then. :) - n/t

[TN al]

27. Kant...

...'nuff said

[Ron Green]

29. Hegel's system does it all. n/t

[Tom_Foolery]

31. Groucho Marx n/t

[CarolynEC]

32. Harpo Marx... for his eloquence

:) :)

[Tom_Foolery]

34. Harpo had the best gig. n/t

[Donkeyboy75]

33. Jordan Knight

[Quahog]

35. I should say Jesus

But He was beyond mere philosophy.

So, Kierkegaard then.

[Xipe Totec]

36. Jacob Bronowski

"Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man."

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jacob_bronowski.html

[ArkDem]

37. Howard Dean

[Screaming Lord Byron]

47. Good God! Are you always on?

:evilgrin:

[Bunny]

38. Macchiavelli.

Does this make me a bad person?

[SidDithers]

45. Eggcelent pic...

Hip-ness is, what it is
But sometimes hipness is, what it aint.

Sid

[Bunny]

50. It is a great pic, isn't it? n/t

[lpbk2713]

40. George Carlin

Followed by Steven Wright

[pagerbear]

46. Oscar Wilde

[terrya]

48. I agree with you on this one.

Oscar was so wise, wasn't he?

[pagerbear]

49. All hail the wisdom of Oscar!

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.