Favourite Philosophers

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because he wrote nausea, one of the best and perhaps most philosophical novels i've read.

Honestly, the idea of doing a poll is ridiculous. Too many major figures (and minor figures) that could be left out.

I mean, do you even want me to start trying to write out a list of all of the people you could(and in some sense should have) have included but didn't? Even my list will miss a lot of people as well, and that's a really big problem with this kind of poll. However, I mean, you could have included Thomas Kuhn, a philosopher of science whose concept of the "paradigm shift" has gone so far as to reach other disciplines and popular intellectual discourse. You could have included Bertrand Russell or AJ Ayer, or some representative of early Analytical philosophy. And so on and so forth. Even further your list is biased towards figures of continental philosophy.(and even then incomplete given that Sartre and/or other representatives of existentialism are left off, as are continental religious philosophers)

I tend to read these threads as "favourite from this list". That's pretty much how he tells us to intepret it ("you could choose your least disfavourite").

I agree that it's an odd selection though (especially with the "Stoic" and "Medieval" options).

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Yeah, I interpret them as well, but... the problem is that these lists are always going to have some bias to them, and this bias makes these lists a bit silly. The favorite you have from a list that is incomplete seems a pretty flawed approach.

Me, obv.

That is somewhat disappointing.

And this seems incredibly esoteric to me, but my reasons are because of my personal religious and philosophical development. As a teenager, I went from having been raised as a Fundamentalist to no longer believing in or agreeing with it and shifting into a non-denominational Christian Existentialist, and Kierkegaard was at the time one of my greatest influences, so it was one of my favorite topics for awhile.

Currently, I'm most closely a "Gnostic Christian" and can go on and on to people about Gnosticism. Spinoza is one of the few well-known philosophers who more closley resembles my own beliefs and was also one of my major influences during college, having moved away from Kierkegaard and Existentialism.

Manly P. Hall and Rudolf Steiner

Confucius and Mozi were not choices, so I chose Marx.

Medieval philosophy could include anyone from Nezahualcoyotl to Zhu Xi.

BAUDRILLARD!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !

his intellectual prophecys have been proven time and again, inthe past few years.

yes. debord also should be on the list.

Nietzche and Marx currently have the plurality. This forum has more than its share of mindless barbarians. Nietzche was an insane syphylitic an Marx was completely illogical. Anyone who follows Hegal is of dubious mentality.

Why do people disdain good old British Empiricism which is a sensible philosophy that sane folk can follow.

ruveyn

you must concede at least that it was always a critical following, though. his conclusions were consistently a negation of hegel.

Poll does not include an option for my favorite philosopher: Testicles

That's pronounced "TES-ti-kleez".

That the the Testicles who hung around near Phalus the Great?

ruveyn