With which philosopher can you relate the best?

[cupoftea]

It has to be Hobbes for me, I pretty much agree with everything he wrote about mankind, the social contract and the political state. I would also love to read his book "Leviathan", but I don't know if they rent it somewhere, maybe at my local bookstore..

[Claudius Gothicus]

Hobbes was such an ...

I can relate with Kant, Mill and Popper but that doesn't mean that I don't heavily criticize some of their postulations.

[The Dude]

Mostly Martin Heidegger for The Question Concerning Technology (amazing piece) and Immanuel Kant in general. Of current philosophers, Daniel Dennett has piqued my interest but I've only read excerpts from his works.

[Monarchist]

Aristotle generally seems clear to me, and avoids dualism. His ability to explain universals, and the openness of his system toward use in the future, generally indicates a flexible nature. Everything about him is great, majestic, and Apollonian, whereas Plato can delve so easily into his Dionysian nonsense. When choosing intellect vs. experience, or logic vs. sense appetites, Aristotle manifestly destroys all others.

Obviously St. Thomas Aquinas is my favourite philosopher, but in the strict sense I'd just like to highlight Aristotle. I generally can't stand "philosophy" after the mid-1750's. Voltaire and Kant so polluted the atmosphere that there's no point in even reading such rubbish. Even a few bright stars like Kirkegaard are too neo-platonic.

[Helm]

Socrates he was the ultimate agnostic. He had full understanding of not understanding anything.

[il padrino]

Difficult question,but i can somewhat relate to Hegel and Schopenhauer.

[Col. Tartleton]

Socrates he was the ultimate agnostic. He had full understanding of not understanding anything.

Agnostic or incredibly hung over when lecturing?

"Who am I? Who are you? Where are we? What am I doing? What are you all doing? Why are you looking at me like that? How did I get here? How am I getting home? What happened last night? When did I black out? I hope she was a woman... Oh! I don't have any answers! I know nothing! Nothing I tell you! Help! Help! Arrrrrggh!"

Socrates was probably executed for something he did while blacked out.


I like Epicurus myself, but there's too many sages wise men wise guys wizards to choose from.

Hegel did basically cause the rise of communism, fascism, and all the other isms which people call each other as insults...

[Claudius Gothicus]

Hegel did basically cause the rise of communism, fascism, and all the other isms which people call each other as insults...

Yeah... that's what Karl Popper said. The guy knew his epistemology pretty well but on the side of existential/political/ethical/gnoseology philosophy failed pretty bad so I'm not going to take your/his word for granted.

[Col. Tartleton]

Yeah... that's what Karl Popper said. The guy knew his epistemology pretty well but on the side of existential/political/ethical/gnoseology philosophy failed pretty bad so I'm not going to take your/his word for granted.

Even the great Aristotle comes off as a brutal misogynistic aristocrat. He was those things, and while he was a genius, he's a step on the journey to wisdom, not the destination. However as a man I find brutal misogynistic aristocratic arguments of the Greeks somewhat palatable as an emotional appeal...

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
-- Bertrand Russell

I think that says a lot about the Greek thinkers. We might be a thousand years ahead if they'd been Greek doers.

[Claudius Gothicus]

Even the great Aristotle comes off as a brutal misogynistic aristocrat. He was those things, and while he was a genius, he's a step on the journey to wisdom, not the destination. However as a man I find brutal misogynistic aristocratic arguments of the Greeks somewhat palatable as an emotional appeal...

I'm not attacking Popper's abilities as a political thinker to discredit his whole conception of Hegel, but his own perspective of seeing things is highly influenced IMO by his mount pelerin position.

Not saying that he lies, but he certainly had a sort of ''psychological dislike'' for all determinism. I have dislike for determinism myself(and I agree with Popper on many things, falsifiability especially) but he's certainly heavily biased.

I think that says a lot about the Greek thinkers. We might be a thousand years ahead if they'd been Greek doers.

Bertrand Russell was IMO an intellectual piece of , he did the same thing with Nietzsche an almost every other philosopher that didn't follow his own ''socialist hippie pink'' view of morals, nothing but ad hominems and systematically throwing while ignoring their philosophic postulations and even more hypocritically his own twisted vision of morality which in the end contradicted his own actions.

[Idwayreth]

im' probably most like Zeno and his stoic philosophy though definitely dont agree with alot of his views

[Dr. Croccer]

It has to be Hobbes for me, I pretty much agree with everything he wrote about mankind, the social contract and the political state. I would also love to read his book "Leviathan", but I don't know if they rent it somewhere, maybe at my local bookstore..

You can easily find them online. In fact, I've got a PDF of it myself.

My favourite is Hegel, his theories on state and law are the most convincing and logical I've ever read.

[Kurtz]

Nietzsche man. Totally Nietzsche.

[removeduser_4536284751384]

Nietzsche man. Totally Nietzsche.

definitely.

[Claudius Gothicus]

You can easily find them online. In fact, I've got a PDF of it myself.

My favourite is Hegel, his theories on state and law are the most convincing and logical I've ever read.

I've never red Hegel properly, is he the twisted motherer that people says? (I have to start studying him for my Philosophy Class so I'm kinda scared)

[il padrino]

I've never red Hegel properly, is he the twisted motherer that people says?

Let's just say that his style of writing is not one of the most clearest

[Sevasti]

Nietzsche. There's something with his fractured line of thought that strikes a chord with me.

[Dr. Croccer]

I've never red Hegel properly, is he the twisted motherer that people says? (I have to start studying him for my Philosophy Class so I'm kinda scared)

Well, his work is ridiculously elaborate and verbose and confusing by modern standards, but I always thought that this was a general trend amongst old philosophers.

[HansDuet]

Kant.

[jankren]

Arthur Schopenhauer.