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  • Socrates

    5 8.62%

  • Plato

    6 10.34%

  • Aristotle

    3 5.17%

  • St. Aquinas

    3 5.17%

  • Machiavelli

    7 12.07%

  • Descartes

    2 3.45%

  • Hobbes

    2 3.45%

  • Spinoza

    2 3.45%

  • Locke

    3 5.17%

  • Liebniz

    0 0%

  • Berkeley

    1 1.72%

  • Hume

    2 3.45%

  • Kant

    3 5.17%

  • Hegel

    3 5.17%

  • Nietzsche

    8 13.79%

  • Other (Specify)

    8 13.79%
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  1. July 10, 2009, 04:10 AM #1
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    Who is your favorite of the great Western philosophers? Plato for me. I've been reading his works lately, namely The Republic, and some of his shorter dialogues. I find that I can agree with much of his assertions and beliefs. He also essentially invented the term, through "philosophos."
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  2. July 10, 2009, 09:11 AM #2
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    You should make it so that we are able to choose more than one!

    For me it's a tie between Machiavelli and Socrates.

    I Would go more into it, but no time.

    I wanna lie, lie to myself, myself and someone else. Cause it’s the lying that hurts, and it’s the hurt that lets me know I’m alive.”
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  3. July 10, 2009, 01:35 PM #3
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Ayn Rand. Although I find most of her followers incredibly annoying, I must admit I agree with Objectivism myself. But out of that list, Socrates.
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  4. July 10, 2009, 02:12 PM #4
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Wittgenstein, no doubt.
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  5. July 10, 2009, 02:34 PM #5
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  6. July 10, 2009, 02:55 PM #6
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Can i vote for myself?

    After all everyones a philosopher!

    And im the only one on that list that i've met, or at least i think i've met myself...

    If but just a passing glance...

    I wanna lie, lie to myself, myself and someone else. Cause it’s the lying that hurts, and it’s the hurt that lets me know I’m alive.”
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  7. July 10, 2009, 03:05 PM #7
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Out of that list...St. Aquinas.
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  8. July 10, 2009, 04:32 PM #8
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    Freaking so close between Aquinas, Berkley, and Spinoza. Argh.

    Had to side with Berkley for his unique, sexy quirks. Non of them I consider the greatest or most influential though, just personal faves.
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  9. July 10, 2009, 06:14 PM #9
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Out of that, Nietzsche.

    Instead of stating what is right, what is wrong, and leaving the rest to God, he analyzed the mankind's flaws, and applied them to his philosophies.

    Afterall, who doesn't want to be the "Ubermein"?
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  10. July 10, 2009, 11:58 PM #10
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Goethe - The little I've read about him makes me like him.
    "Romans not only easily conquered those who fought by cutting, but mocked them too. For the cut, even delivered with force, frequently does not kill, when the vital parts are protected by equipment and bone. On the contrary, a point brought to bear is fatal at two inches; for it is necessary that whatever vital parts it penetrates, it is immersed. Next, when a cut is delivered, the right arm and flank are exposed. However, the point is delivered with the cover of the body and wounds the enemy before he sees it."

    - Flavius Vegetius Renatus (in Epitoma Rei Militari, ca. 390)
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  11. July 11, 2009, 11:03 AM #11
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Kant, no doubt
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  12. July 12, 2009, 09:07 AM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by My Favorite Martian View Post
    Kant, no doubt
    Only when dressed in blue and green.
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Lol, I think I have heart about'em - sigh, all these sad comedians that have risen from those novels.



    I agree with you, reading can be missleading when its unrelated to what has been written else later, not really different from any other "stato di minorità che egli deve imputare a se"*. Therefore, reading Kant but for obscure reasons eluding Wittgenstein may be somehow unsatisfying over the long.


    *self-inflicted immaturity
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  14. July 11, 2009, 01:28 PM #14
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    I guess Socrates. I just like his stories (love how he annoys people. ).
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  15. July 11, 2009, 01:32 PM #15
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    hmm, I'm not to sure, Nietzsche or Sartre...
    ...
    Ah, voted Nietzsche
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  16. July 14, 2009, 01:36 AM #16
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Could anyone ever understand foucolt? I suspect I never got a good translation.
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Back in time Garbasadar has once spoken out a recommendation.

    If I remember correctely, Michel Foucault's book about the social-history of clincs.
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Histoire de la Folie à l'Age Classique. And Surveiller et Punir.

    Funny well-meant and well-expressed ideology. I am parsing a textbook on dynamic phenomenology as of now, but philosophy is a complement, not a substitute for science. And vice-versa. I know Garb has an intrinsic mistrust for psychiatric nosographies.
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  19. July 15, 2009, 09:20 AM #19
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Quote Originally Posted by Ummon View Post
    philosophy is a complement, not a substitute for science
    Yup.
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  20. July 14, 2009, 07:47 PM #20
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    Default Re: Favorite Western Philosopher

    Spinoza - I like his logical approach to metaphysics.
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