Favorite Philosophers

[sarah louise]

Ancient ~ Epicurus
Modern ~ Marx
Living ~ Habermas

and lots and lots of others but those 3 stand out from the crowd for me.

[MasterKief]

Does Carl Sagan count?

[iniganja]

Anyone interested in philosophy should check out Ayn Rand, founder of Objectivism.

[StarletteSky]

Socrates. Nietzche...although, I agree he is hard to understand.

A certain homeless guy at my nearest train station. He's always there trying to pinpont the single moment where his life went wrong. If you actually talk to him long enough (I tend to get chatty when I am intoxicated), he's not as crazy as you'd think he'd be. Kinda scary, cause I've definitely been in related situations or made similar choices.

Carl Sagan is the shiz.

[killerweed420]

Doug Stanhope is my favorite Philosopher:jointsmile:

[Mr. Clandestine]

1) Siddhartha Gautama
2) Miyamoto Musashi
3) HH, the Dalai Lama
4) Thich Nhat Hanh
5) Lao Tzu

Many more, but too tired to list... :thumbsup:

[bhouncy]

I know of some but I've not read much or even any of their work. Anyone who questions what they are told as fact is a philosopher to me.

[human8]

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Doug Stanhope is my favorite Philosopher:jointsmile:

haha He is fucking funny isn't he? saw him at Detroit Bar last month, but the bar owners wouldn't let him smoke grits. Kind of like porn with no money shot. But he was funny, doin' new shit.

My favorite idea spinner for this second would be
Rene Schwaller De Lubicz.

Check out Nature Word or Symbol and the Symbolic. Egyptian
based ideas that I found pretty darn interesting!

Those bookworms in the forum may want to tackle Temple of Man . You may be able to pick one up for 120.00 or so. 1000
pages of Schwaller's findings after spending 15 years living in
the Temple of Luxor in Egypt.
He decided to go to the source and investigate for himself rather than sit back in europe reading books on the subject.
Crazy Fucker, I love his shit, not just Archeological but all-encompassing.[/align]

[40oz]

I really enjoy camus and his idea that the only question in life is whether or not to kill yourself. His ideas and reasoning are really really interesting and he has probably made me think more than other philosophers out there.

There are many more philosophers I like, such as Spinoza, Foucault, and Socrates, but there are also some I don't like and find boring, like Locke.

[scoobypower]

nietzsche.

he's been the foundation for so many artists and writers for a reason.

sartre,kant,emerson..all good stuff as well.