Favorite Philosophers

[ArgoSG]

epicurus, plato, bertrand russell, daniell dennett

Ayn Rand was close to getting it right but ends up falling flat on her face. There are tons of objective truths. Relativism is utter horseshit. Jesus being the son of God is not "your truth", it is a claim about reality which is either true or untrue. Both of these possibilities have huge implications on our world. If it's true, Billions on this Earth will have the misfortune of worshipping the wrong God, or failing to worship a god. If it is untrue, Billions(around Two) of people on this planet are collectively delusional, and waste much of their lives on superstition, while impeding scientific progress(Without the Christians, George Bush's two elections become absolutely impossible to win. Make that any republican. Well.. make that any Democrat too, but my point is not to illustrate that Christians are necessary to elect our world leader. It is impossible anyway to get elected while showing some kind of doubt regarding a Heaven or Hell in this country.).

[overgrowthegovt]

Reason is only one relatively superficial source of knowledge than can only explain the empirical world. That's why Ayn Rand and so forth always irritated me with their shallow arrogance.

I dig:

Emerson--Transcendentalism always sat very well with me. Spiritual, but not in an organized doctrinaire manner...very nice

Nietzsche--renounced the Judeo-Christian ethic and the stupdity of egalitarianism

Kant--acknowledged that some things are beyond reason and require a bit of a leap

Rousseau--huge influence on the enlightenment and on Romanticism; created some new ideals, exposed tyranny

[Honkin22]

I have to say Karl Marxs, the man who came up with the greatest philosophy, communism the idea of everyone sharing everything and working for the greater good of the people, not of the rich and the elite.

[5thHorseMan]

Marx, for all of his bluster and gusto was a shitty communist, and a backwards thinker. He had decided that communism was a solution and then set about finding a problem for it to solve. And the idea of being forced to share something that you yourself have earned, is tantamount to legalized theft. Marx never had a job which forced him to break a sweat, or anything close to the jobs held by the proletariat, in Marx we see not a brilliant socio economic philosopher, just an inspired upper middle class prussian who feels guilty.

Socialism is superior to communism, because of it's moderation and adaptability.

David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Spinoza, and Hegel are all main philosophical men.

[carsten]

Nietzsche, Ingersoll, Gautama, Sagan

[FourTwenty4Life]

Bob Marley "One Love" :hippy:

[matrixhomie]

socrates,
einstein,
karl marx,
and myself lol

[SirSmellyEwic]

Favorites:
1. Friedrich Nietzsche (who i find easy to understand, of course i've been reading Nietzsche since i was 12)
2. Michel Foucault (much harder to understand... too wordy, but still awesome)
3. Karl Marx (i find his diagnosis of Alienation to be very interesting)

The one's i hate:
1. Kant (the ultimately despicable slavery of a morality he taught makes me dislike him)
2. Plato (long winded and boring, not to mention weak)
3. Derrida (he mourned the walls he tore down)

[Trip06]

I have to say Karl Marxs, the man who came up with the greatest philosophy, communism the idea of everyone sharing everything and working for the greater good of the people, not of the rich and the elite.

LMAO, yeah thats why EVERYWHERE Communism has been there has Been MASS GENOCIDE of its own countrymen. Get a history book. The marines didnt storm normandy Beach for you to sit here and Praise Communism. Didnt You attend History class? Dont you know what the "red scare" was? LOL. You think The loss Of individual Rights Is something to Whim around? Fabion Socialism and Communism is nothing more than what it has always been. English lords raping the peasants. If your communism worked so well than Russia wouldnt be a 3 world country. Japan and china wouldnt execute and force 300 million people into civillan labor camps because they dont like how the Governments run. THERE GOVERNMENT OWNS THEM, We Here in the USA WE OWN OUR GOVERNMENT. We reconize the individual here. And all those vets who died in the world wars would shit on you if they were here to read your bullshit. So while you shit on our constitution and bills of rights, maybe you should think about a life of working in a textile factory for the rest of your life with no advancement. Maybe you should move out of AMERICA. THE LAND OF THE FREE!!!

[Trip06]

CHINA SUPPLIED AND FUNDED NORTHERN VIETNAM. THEY WENT INTO lower free vietnam and killed any body they could find just because they dissented from Norther Vietnam. YOU DUMBSHIT LITTLE KIDS NO NOTHING OF HISTORY!!! MAO, LENIN, STALIN, HITLER, All EXECUTED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE!!!! COMMUNISM IS ANTI AMERICAN AND YOU NEED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY BEFORE SOME VET KNOCKS YOU THE FUCK OUT. PEOPLE DIDNT DIE FOR YOUR FREEDOMS FOR YOU TO SIT HERE AND TALK ABOUT THE RAINBOW. Hey maybe you and snuggles from Downy can snuggle up with some poor christan farmers in lower loas and burma who everyone they know has had there arms hacked off to stubs because of the commie troops. You kids........