Who is your favorite philosopher?

How about this one... it's from a dude named Ronald Lestenvski


Our world upon our death is like salvation entering the eyes, the meek hearted will miss us, and our enemies will remember too.
 
spidergoat said:
U.G. Krishnamurti

The human thinking is born out of some sort of neurological defect in the human body. Therefore anything that is born out of human thinking is destructive.



Food, clothing and shelter- these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.



You have to be saved from the very idea that you have to be saved. You must be saved from the saviors, redeemed from the redeemers.



We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.
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This guy is seriously foolish:rolleyes:
 
Murakami

"Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine … where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise."
 
Ahh, S.A.M. is my favorite philosopher. The one over-riding thought: "It's all the fault of the Americans!" How much more profound can one get than that?

Baron Max
 
tnerb said:
I hate hegel, his whole system is just a joke. Care to elaborate?
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I thought the thread was merely to state who your favourite is.
I take it we're also supposed to cross-critique each other's choice as well?
 
glaucon said:
I thought the thread was merely to state who your favourite is.
I take it we're also supposed to cross-critique each other's choice as well?
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I don't see why not. It's fun to make a joke/commentary about the other persons favoriate philosopher.
 
tnerb said:
I don't see why not. It's fun to make a joke/commentary about the other persons favoriate philosopher.
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Cool.
Just wanted to make sure that's what you intended.

I am curious though: you started the thread, and yet you didn't provide the name of your favourite.....

tnerb said:
Damn that wittgenstein, arguing about nothing and everything all at the same time:mad:
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Well hey. somebody had to set things straight..

:)
 
glaucon said:
Cool.
Just wanted to make sure that's what you intended.

I am curious though: you started the thread, and yet you didn't provide the name of your favourite.....



Well hey. somebody had to set things straight..

:)
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I like some of the new philosophical ideas. Wittgenstein arguing about plato, when he was only repeating and tryin to finish plato or whatever. He did well but didn't cover such things as Bergson. He speaks too absanely.

Henri Bergson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson
Fitche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichte

And last but not least, Nietzsche (although he's real hard up like).
You might say I sympathise with Kant.
 
I am not going to get into an argument with you here brent, but...

tnerb said:
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Wittgenstein arguing about plato, when he was only repeating and tryin to finish plato or whatever.
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Wittgenstein had nothing remotely to do with Plato.

tnerb said:
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He did well but didn't cover such things as Bergson. He speaks too absanely.
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Two points:

Thank gods he didn't venture into the ennui-realm of Bergsonian silliness.

"Absanely" isn't a word.
(Though I'd love to know what you meant to say...)
 
The influence of Bergson had led him "to renounce the intellectualist method and the current notion that logic is an adequate measure of what can or cannot be." It had induced him, he continued, "to give up logic, squarely and irrevocably" as a method, for he found that "reality, life, experience, concreteness, immediacy, use what word you will, exceeds our logic, overflows, and surrounds it."

wikipedia-

It goes on..
 
glaucon said:
I am not going to get into an argument with you here brent, but...



Wittgenstein had nothing remotely to do with Plato.
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Ok. Sheesh. He had nothing to with plato, and yet his philosophy is achedamic refutal.



Two points:

Thank gods he didn't venture into the ennui-realm of Bergsonian silliness.
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Bergson is the only philosopher to attempt to try something new. I think he is underestimated as a worthwhile read. In my opinion, there lies in his works a lot which cannot be found with Wittgenstein.

"Absanely" isn't a word.
(Though I'd love to know what you meant to say...)
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Abtuse, deflickerd adanon yo tago see me bago!
 
tnerb said:
The influence of Bergson had led him "to renounce the intellectualist method and the current notion that logic is an adequate measure of what can or cannot be." It had induced him, he continued, "to give up logic, squarely and irrevocably" as a method, for he found that "reality, life, experience, concreteness, immediacy, use what word you will, exceeds our logic, overflows, and surrounds it."

wikipedia-

It goes on..
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Blah, blah.
I was referring to the actual content of Wittgenstein's work.


tnerb said:
Ok. Sheesh. He had nothing to with plato, and yet his philosophy is achedamic refutal.
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Not sure what "achedamic refutal" might be, but again, you're wrong.
Wittgenstein was more concerned with construction, not critique.



tnerb said:
Bergson is the only philosopher to attempt to try something new.
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LOL

tnerb said:
... I think he is underestimated as a worthwhile read. In my opinion, there lies in his works a lot which cannot be found with Wittgenstein.
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No doubt.


tnerb said:
Abtuse, deflickerd adanon yo tago see me bago!
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Again, not words.
 
He is probably the ONLY philosopher, to try to do something which has not been done before in regards to turning it around and everything. Wittgenstein is not as creative, not nearly. Once again, he is the only philosopher to try something new (IMO).




No doubt.
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I believe it to be so..
 
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myself, I am my own favorite philosopher. But than after all I would say Siddhartha Gautama is my great philosopher.
 
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