who are the greatest thinkers of all time?

[Amorphos]

...problaby already been done a thousand times.

who are the greatest thinkers of all time?

i personally like; Pythagoras, socrates, einstien, buddha, mohammad and jesus.

[chilon]

Thales of Miletus
Pythagoras
Euclid
Leonardo da Vinci
Einstein

Siddhartha Gautama
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Ludwig Wittgenstein


and many more

[rathelios]

Aristotle, Newton, Einstein's wife (allegedly)

[Mig el Pig]

Ibn Rushd, Terry Pratchett, Niccolo Machiaelli and Isaac Asimov.

[Niccolo Machiavelli]

Niccolo Machiavelli

Well thank you .


Considering the topic I think it's really on par for thousands in different subjects - I think I could come up with hundreds, but I wouldn't know where to start...

[Silver Guard]

Socrates - For being the greatest philosopher of them all, daring to question the "knowledge" of the Sophics, and giving his life rather then leaving Athens for his doubt in the Gods.
Hume - For being of sound mind and generaly having an excellent grasp of logic at its purest.

[Justice and Mercy]

Me.

And...

No, just me.

[Gary88]

i agree with Hume but i would add John Stuart-Mill
among his brilliant philosophical musings he did many great things

During his time as an MP, Mill advocated easing the burdens on Ireland, and became the first person in Parliament to call for women to be given the right to vote. Mill became a strong advocate of women's rights and such political and social reforms as proportional representation, labor unions, and farm cooperatives. In 1869, he argued for the right of women to vote. In Considerations on Representative Government, Mill called for various reforms of Parliament and voting, especially proportional representation, the Single Transferable Vote, and the extension of suffrage.

he was i believe the first MP to ever suggest that women should be allowed to vote. it is also claimed he was a genius of substantial proportion IIRC Stamford University believe him to have had an IQ of over 200

[Dayman]

Voltaire, Kant, Machiavelli, Paine, Russell

[IndianPrince]

Im doin an all India-list ... cuz well im indian. No hard feelings for anyone else

1) Aryabhatta
2) Buddha
3) Gandhi
4) C.V. Raman
5) J.C. Bose
6) Sushruta
7) The guy/gal (probably guy) who invented zero

and the list continues ....

And just because i dont want to sound mean & bias ...

8) Einstein
9) Plato
10) Newton
11) Hawkins
12) and David Suzuki ... lolz

Prince

[MasterAdnin]

There are many "thinkers" who were great, and we could argue which were the greatest, though in my opinion, I feel that the Prophets(pbut) were the greatest thinkers ever. They managed to change the will and way of thought of thousands, and over a span of thousands of years. They are truly the greatest of the great minds the world has ever seen.

It does not matter if you agree with them or not, but the fact of the matter is their ideas, or the ideas of God expressed through them has lasted through the ages and will continue to last as long as faith is present within mankind, and rest assure that faith is something which will remain within the hearts and minds of mankind for all eternity and to the grave with all men.

Salaam,
Adnan

[IamthePope]

Plato
AristotleSt. Thomas Aquinas
Albertus Magnus
Goethe
Leibniz
René Descartes
Blaise Pascal

[Primvs Sextvs Loverlord]

Mohammad wasn't a thinker.

For me, the greatest thinkers would be Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Allama Iqbal.

Don't be fooled by Sir Syed's huge beard - that guy was a century ahead of everyone else with his views and was called a heretic because of them.

[MasterAdnin]

Mohammad wasn't a thinker.

All Prophets(pbut) were thinkers. All of them converted hundreds if not thousands to their respective faiths. They all planned ahead and knew what was coming and how to respond to it. They all spoke messages of God, and elaborated on them for the masses. They were all the greatest of the great thinkers.

Salaam,
Adnan

[VALIS]

All Prophets(pbut) were thinkers. All of them converted hundreds if not thousands to their respective faiths. They all planned ahead and knew what was coming and how to respond to it. They all spoke messages of God, and elaborated on them for the masses. They were all the greatest of the great thinkers.

Salaam,
Adnan

Does Muhammad get extra browny points for getting to ride a big white magical flying horse?

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Anyway to give some serious suggestions:
Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Freud (his influence on 20th century thinking is astonishing, for evidence watch the BBC documentary 'Century of the Self')
Einstein
Da Vinci
Edison
Darwin
Newton
Leibniz
Adam Smith (laid foundations of capitalism,from my home town....BOO-YAH!)
Karl Marx (as much as I disagree with him)

****, theres probably a raft more I can't think off.

[Primvs Sextvs Loverlord]

Does Muhammad get extra browny points for getting to ride a big white magical flying horse?

You racist pig, the horse was African, not white!

[MasterAdnin]

Does Muhammad get extra browny points for getting to ride a big white magical flying horse?

Psssshhhhh.....Of course he does.

Salaam,
Adnan

[Amorphos]

i think prophets are a bit like pop stars rather than great thinkers, they just hop on the latest bandwagon copying others in a way that seams new. it doesn’t matter how many sheep follow the shepherds.

so i take back mohamad and jesus as they are just icing - its the people who make the cake that count.

oh and i take back einstien too, science has helped us understand the world but not life, it is all a bit mechanical for me and damn it has produced the most arrogant thinkers since the romans e.g. dawkins. thing is science changes yet at each step acts like it knows everything.

buddism is largely jainism by a different name so he is out, thus i’ll stick with the greeks.

[Rush Limbaugh]

Originally Posted by MasterAdnin View Post
All Prophets(pbut) were thinkers. All of them converted hundreds if not thousands to their respective faiths. They all planned ahead and knew what was coming and how to respond to it. They all spoke messages of God, and elaborated on them for the masses. They were all the greatest of the great thinkers

I have to go along with you here. Not sure if they actually spoke the real message of god but they were great thinkers. Even I wont take that from Mohamed.

Also Heronas of Alexandria and Archimedes are among my favorites. Jesus is another.

[Sephynos]

1. Jesus
...
...
2. Buddha
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3. Avestan Zarathustra (Zoroaster)
4. J.J. Rousseau
5. Confucius
6. Socrates
7. Einstein
8. Kant
9. Jacques Derrida
10. L. Da Vinci