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Hume is my favorite.
Lao Tzu has the elegant simplicity of good physics. Its like poetry, either you like it or you don't and there's no accounting for taste.fuzzyfelt said:I'd find this more interesting if reasons were given for the choice, for example, what is preferred about late Wittgenstein?
wuliheron said:Lao Tzu has the elegant simplicity of good physics. Its like poetry, either you like it or you don't and there's no accounting for taste.
Wittgenstein would be my second choice. I'd compare his later work to that of Socrates who managed to shift the focus in Greek philosophy away from metaphysics and more towards ethics and logistics by a simple and creative use of their own traditional Reductio ad absurdum approach. In his later work Wittgenstein helped to shift the focus of academic philosophy from Continental philosophy to Analytic philosophy and linguistics using again a simple and creative approach that incorporated the traditional logistics. Like Socrates' philosophy that of Wittgenstein is as interesting for its sweeping impact on academic philosophy as it is in and of itself.
fuzzyfelt said:Thank you, wuliheron, that is exactly what I was hoping for! I think it is interesting to see what we find especially appealing in differing ideas. An elegant simplicity of good physics sounds a good reason. And thanks for the explanation you gave for late Wittgenstein, too.
Lindsay Lohan said:People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I`d be taking a step back or something.
FlexGunship said:Lindsay Lohan
People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I`d be taking a step back or something.
Ivan Seeking said:That requires translation from the ancient Hollyberic to modern. According to the Google translator, we get ~ "I have $100 million in the bank".
turbo said: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)
The Eastern Tradition & Philosophers are quite often, unfortunately, overlooked i think this would be one of those cases.wuliheron said:The Tao Te Ching is among the top 3 all time best selling books in the world, but you left out Lao Tzu.
Parmenides is OK, but that's just one man's opinion. Zeno is hard to approach.fashizzle said:my two favorites are
parmenides
zeno of elea
what do you guys think about these two?
Albuquerque said: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 ?