Favorite Philosopher

[floppylobster]

Socrates, for having the good sense not to write his shit down. If only all philosophers would do that then world would be a more interesting place with less shitty arguments by people who back their opinions up with other people's thinking and not their own.

 

[dooner11]

I also would like to thank all you escapists for making me feel at home, being a fan of Ayn Rand and objectivism. I really dont know anyone else in the whole world that has shown an interest, and it makes me smile every time i see one of you defend or make reference to her

one of the points in objectivism was that you shouldn't care whether other's think differently about what you like or who you are. you're never not at home as long as you got yourself.

the question is of course, do you actually have yourself?

Thanks for pointing that out i actually dont recall mentioning me caring whether or not the people around me accept objectivism, or saying that i dislike believing a philosophy that the people around me dont agree with. i was simply acknowledging all of you who understand it.

 

[AgentNein]

Friedrich Nietzsche--oh so quotable and trying to decipher his work is fun for me.
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
Soren Kierkegaard

Yes yes yes and yes. Particularly Camus.

 

[Zetona]

Friedrich Nietzsche--oh so quotable and trying to decipher his work is fun for me.
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
Soren Kierkegaard
Ayn Rand--The Fountainhead was a good book, as was Anthem but I couldn't really stomach Atlas Shrugged.
Arnold Schopenhauer--even though I don't agree with him, his work makes for some great reading.
Gautama Buddha
Aristotle
David Hume
Epicurus

Well, someone likes Existentalists...

So do I. I'd add Walker Percy to a list of existentialists but I'm not sure if he counts.

 

[hazakura]

sun Tzu and who ever wrote Tao te cheng,Uh...Lao Tzu,I think

 

[Damien the Pigeon]

I like Jean Jaques Rousseau.

The concept of the "noble savage" always seemed interesting to me.

 

[misterkittles]

Gonna have to go with ST. Anselm, simply because while I dont have much interest ni philosophy I do love the twisted logic of his arguments.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Jean Paul Satre or John Locke, either will do.

 

[RedDiablo]

Kierkagard (sp? for sure)

-'cogito ergo sum'

You mean Kierkegaard, and Descartes said, "Cogito Ergo Sum."

Gonna have to go with ST. Anselm, simply because while I dont have much interest ni philosophy I do love the twisted logic of his arguments.

I find Anselm's Ontological Argument very weak. I never heard of someone who was converted by it.

 

[ChaosTheory3133]

JS Mill
Socrates
Robert Nozick is kind of interesting
A few others that I can't think of at this time.

 

[Jagers1994]

100% Oscar Wilde.

We got a winner.
"Life is too serious to be taken seriously."

 

[black lincon]

bill and ted, seriously though I'm surprised no one has said Voltaire yet. I guess I just love my freedom of speech to much.

 

[joystickjunki3]

Me. I am my favorite philosopher.

I, too, am my favorite philosopher.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

They all kick ass in some way. But i don't have a favorite.

 

[Pseudonym2]

Diogenes, Sartre, and Noam Chomsky. While I don't always agree with them, all of they all became activist-intellectuals. Diogenes augured a lot about Plato's fascist leanings and Noam Chomsky stressed how important each individual is. Nietzsche assumed that everyone except a few people were worthless. Not surprisingly, the nobles liked his work more than the peasants when his work first came out. Sartre wanted the French out of Algeria.

It's kind of depressing how much popular the authoritative Plot is than Sartre.

I'm kind of curious to see how many of the escapists prefer authoritative philosophers.

 

[justnotcricket]

I've always rather liked the brand of happy-go-lucky, jolly hockeysticks philosophy espoused by P.G. Wodehouse through the character of one Bertram Wilberforce Wooster. =)

 

[Specter_]

100% Oscar Wilde.

We got a winner.
"Life is too serious to be taken seriously."

"There is no Sin except stupidity."

 

[Highlandheadbanger]

Siddhartha Guatama aka The Buddha
Martin Luther King
Socrates (even though for the most part we only have Plato's word on it)

Not at all an Ayn Rand fan, found her wrong to the degree of pretentiousness.

John Rawls is honestly my favorite.