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My top favorite is David Hume.
Who are your favorite philosophers?
Who are your favorite philosophers?
Can I have his rug? I'll even blow-dry the bimbo's toenails...Math Is Hard said:Jeff Bridges. The Dude abides.
My favorite philosopher is a dead philosopher too. I've been looking for someone who knows a thing or two about Hume. In A Treatise of Human Nature, what was meant when he or she said, "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them"?jduster said:My top favorite is David Hume.
Who are your favorite philosophers?
Kevin_Axion said:You should read Seneca:Letter's from a Stoic, although most of his letter were lost he was extremely influential in Nero's rise to power in the Roman Empire and for a lot of the policies he created. Inevitably he was forced to commit suicide. He's very interesting.
Kevin_Axion said:Yep, they were brave but Socrates could have escaped but chose to die, I'm not sure about Seneca.
Kevin_Axion said:Yes, but the Romans... he would have died anyways :P.
Jimmy Snyder said:My favorite philosopher is a dead philosopher too. I've been looking for someone who knows a thing or two about Hume. In A Treatise of Human Nature, what was meant when he or she said, "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them"?
Have at it. However, I think you will find that the older thread, which is in the philosophy forum, violates the spirit if not the letter of the new rules for posting. That thread was intended as a joke as was my post in this thread. This thread is not in the philosophy forum and isn't subject to its rules.Math Is Hard said:I am going to take this as a request to re-open the thread in the Philosophy forum that you asked to have closed.
I'm not sure I'd call Noam Chomsky a philosopher. But I do admire his scholarship and perserverance and have learned much from him. Ditto nismaratwork. Also Apeiron, kote, StatutoryApe (I hope I got that right) and 'many' others, whose usernames I don't recall, certainly many of the mentors and science advisors, here at PF.Lacy33 said:Noam Chomsky, nismaratwork, Leo Buscaglia.
Andre said:I try to select the best philosopher in my autograph
Yes, he was a special person as well as a great thinker and communicator.RichardParker said:My personal favorite would be Bertrand Russell.
Russell was, and will remain, imo, unique and special. He was, imo, a truly wise man. Someone whose lead I would be most willing to follow.Alan1000 said:... Russell has the gift of making the reader feel that she or he is as clever as himself. He speaks to you as an equal. No other philosopher in history can match the lucidity of his writing style, his intellectual assurance, and his gifts for communicating the essence of a complicated idea in terms a person of ordinary education can understand.
And (like most of the Pommie Empiricist philosophers), he is not afraid to crack a joke once in a while, and he takes neither himself nor his subject too seriously.
Me too. So, I didn't bother reading most of it. I think it's just some sort of literary angst, more or less. Not wisdom, or even clever. Just a bunch of whiners.Alan1000 said:Which is more than you can say for the Existentialists. Kierkegaard? Sartre? Can't understand a damn word they are saying, most of the time.