Who is your favorite philosopher?

FlexGunship

Lindsay Lohan

Ivan Seeking

That requires translation from the ancient Hollyberic to modern. According to the Google translator, we get ~ "I have $100 million in the bank".

wuliheron

The more accurate translation, "I can be rich, famous, and party all the time without going to school."

turbo

None of my top three were in there, even though they are all dead and all widely quoted:

Samuel Clemens
Ambrose Bierce
George Carlin
(not necessarily in that order)

disregardthat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...A%E2%80%93C)#A

MarcoD

Hmm... Wittingstein is that dude who wrote so incomprehensible that we now enjoy spelling his name incorrectly? I totally agree!

RodA

The Eastern Tradition & Philosophers are quite often, unfortunately, overlooked i think this would be one of those cases.

Jean Paul Sartre, his philosophy is simply beautiful
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/d/daniels/sartre%20sum.html

epenguin

other is my favourite, for his wider point of view.

Noko

Wittgenstein

After I understood him (or at least perceived to), everything else seemed like poetic garbage.

epenguin

Not Socrates. Reputedly he has more questions than answers.

Lacy33

Noam Chomsky

Jobrag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WRFJwGsbY
The best philosophers EVER!

fashizzle

my two favorites are

parmenides
zeno of elea

what do you guys think about these two?

Jimmy Snyder

Parmenides is OK, but that's just one man's opinion. Zeno is hard to approach.

Pythagorean

The Dude

DrClapeyron

My father's friend. Laid back, serious and very funny guy. He can make life outside of work seem like such a joke, and that I believe is the key to life. Don't take things that shouldn't be taken seriously in the first place, because if problems arise from them you are likely to burn bridges and do things that you would later regret in life.

Albuquerque

Spinoza´s pantheistic account of God as synonym of Nature, the unmoved mover and the True substance, as his conception of Ethics as the human drive process for greater degrees of order in which the action of reason through work (organization) provides happiness and the progress of Civilization appeal to me as the most essential there is to know in western Philosophy...

...in my way of putting it and stretching it, it places moral as the individual instinct of Ethics, the intuition for the need of the Estate and the realization of Man through the mind in the production of Work/Order in the most energy efficient possible manner...the codes of ethics are then nothing but the codes for energy efficiency in society in the process of evolution and constant adaptation through the work of reason...the opposition to the 2 law of TD...hmmm, or is it rather a tango with it ?