Who are you favorite intellectuals?

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What thinkers have influenced you? Who do you like?

My all time favorite is Carl Jung.

I admire Aristotle for his commitment to spreading knowledge (even accepting the death penalty for his "crimes"). Anyone who's displayed remarkable innovation in solving a problem, so that includes a lot of engineering types. George Washington Carver springs to mind- the way he made peanuts into commercially viable products was a huge advancement for agriculture, since the cotton farms would deplete the soil without a rotation of peanuts.

Carl Jung is hot. Jack London would have been so fun to hang out with also.
My favorite intellectual is Jesus. He is the only one who keeps me on my toes.

Aristotle? Didn't he condone vivisection because he rationalized that animals don't feel pain?
He warped the whole Western medical front.

I think he also thought that the main function of the brain was to cool blood. It doesnt matter though. He was a genius and a good choice. Just think of the context.

I prefer someone more recent: John Dalberg-Acton, an 18th century british philosopher who, as far as we know today, coined the phrase "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"...

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

- Jung

Thinkers?

Nietzsche, Stirner, Sade, Mises, Hayek, Feyerabend, Hume.

So, individualists, subjectivists, and skeptics.

You sound like a libertarian. Stirner is great. So are Hayek and Mises. Hume too. I dont know much about the others.

Feyerabend is a philosopher of science who thinks that anything should go in the pursuit of knowledge and who argues for the separation of science and state. Sade believes that individuals should pursue their desires, even at the costs of the rest of society, and justifies this by the naturalness of desires and thus makes a natural law argument for these actions. Nietzsche is probably well known as something to you, and he is often considered to have some similarities to Stirner.

Yes, I do suppose I sound a bit like a libertarian though.

Telsa,,,not like the loser Edison

Okay, all time favorite is Terrence McKenna. Go to hell if you don't like him You go to hell and you die!

isnt it uually the reverse?

Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, Eric Cartman, Philip J Fry, Ren Hoek, Stimpy Kadogen, Filburt Turtle, Count Duckula, Oscar the Grouch, Winnie the Pooh, the list of endless brilliant minds goes on and on!

I would go for Marcus Aurelius.

Aristotle got out of town. It was Socrates who accepted the hemlock, rather than flee or give up his infernal questioning. Socrates was put to death primarily for being a pain in the ass.

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