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Favorite pholilosophere? I am a huge fan of Nietzsche, Zhuangzi, Focucault, and Harry Frankfort!

Iā€™m mostly asking because Iā€™m a grad student in philosophy. šŸ™‚

CarlosElSalvad 4 Mar 30
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Homer J. Simpson

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I like Nietzsche also. I also like Plato, Epicurus, Thomas Hobbes, and John Serle.

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I am also a fan of Nietzche. I also like George Carlin and Confucius.

Kongzi is alright. Way too much about ritual propiority though...

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Simpsons are my favorite philosophers. As a collective their outlook on life is superb.

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BOB MARLEY, Carlos Castaneda.

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The Sayings of Chiang Tzu are worth a read as he is one of the very few early philosophers with a sense of humor.

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In Alice Through The Looking Glass I like the scene where she meets Humpty Dumpty:
"ā€˜Donā€™t stand there chattering to yourself like that,ā€™ Humpty Dumpty said, looking at her for the first time, ā€˜but tell me your name and your business.ā€™

ā€˜My name is Alice, but ā€”ā€™

ā€˜Itā€™s a stupid enough name!ā€™ Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. ā€˜What does it mean?ā€™

ā€˜must a name mean something?ā€™ Alice asked doubtfully.

ā€˜Of course it must,ā€™ Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: ā€˜my name means the shape I am ā€” and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.ā€™"

Lewis Carroll's allusion to the philosophy of language.

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Alan Watts,

I have seen it a few times and enjoy it every time I see it. I have read several of his books. He was a remarkable man who spoke several languages including Latin- Greek - Sanskrit - Mandarin

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Philosoraptor challenges common philosophies in our modern age. Sometimes a contraversal figure.

probably tears you up in a debate

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Isnt a philosopher just a person with an opinion?

I mean, the Dude is near and dear to my heart too.

I have always tried to form my own

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Heidegger, Husserl, Sartre, Pierce. Phenomenologists, an existentialist, and a pragmatist. Sounds like the beginning of a joke, if you got them walking into a bar. ?

Yes, see The Philosopher's Song by Monty Python

I like Heidegger, but the whole Nazi thing really bothers me...

Nietzsche has a little Nazi baggage of his own, @CarlosElSavad

@zeuser Nietzscheā€™s sister Elizabeth is very much responsible for that. Though he is very sexist, if you want to attack him from that angle!

@CarlosElSalvad how can you blame his sister? Seems like he had a mind of his own

@btroje quite simply, his sister was the one who really made his work about nationalism. When he does speak about the German Spirit in his unaltered versions of The Antichrist and his later works he is talking not about a nationalism, but a spirit of the people in Germany. Lemme see if I can find a source...

[telegraph.co.uk]

This is one such article. Also if you read the Kaufmannā€™s book, it further supports this reasoning.

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Yogi Berra

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I like Francis Bacon, Locke, Hume, Russell, Whitehead, Wittgenstein...

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Frances Bacon and then the old greeks, I think we too often reinvent the wheel.
The ancient greek philosophers were wealthy, they had slaves, they didn't have to work. They had the time to ponder, deeply.

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I doubt you can impress many girls with this line.

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Bertrand Russel. My father, who was a philosophy professor, told me about a faculty party where Russel was. People were fawning all over him. A beautiful female grad student walked right up to him, interrupting the conversation, and said, "Why is it that you haven't written anything good since Principia Mathematica?". The fawning fans were aghast. He was unperturbed, looked her in the eyes and said, "Well my dear, just after that I discovered fucking and I haven't been able to do a thing since".

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Bob Dylan

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In the introduction to his work Ecce Homo, Nietzsche is full of self laudatory praise as is evident from is statement: "Why I Write Such Good Books" Wondering if Nietzsche is an atheist is like wondering if the Pope is a Catholic...LOL Undoubtedly, Thus Spake Zarathustra was misappropriated and misunderstood by the Nazi Regime. The Ɯbermensch stands in contrast the the "other world" of heaven and pie in the sky of Christianity. Tragically, Nietzsche contracted Syphilis.
Bertrand Russell did not regard Nietzsche as a great philosopher because according to Russell, Nietzsche was too emotional.

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Wittgenstein, Russell, William of Ockham, Alfred North Whitehead, Neitzsche, Frege,

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Budha

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Tupac. I keep it short with a book of quotes. šŸ˜‰

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Do you mean Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)?

Yes. Long day of work and I didnā€™t double-check my spelling. šŸ˜Ÿ

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Nietzsche and some contempories of my time.

Like who? Currently active I find Chalmers and Harris to be interesting. I also am fascinated with some of the newer phenomonologist.

@CarlosElSalvad there are too many to mention we are in the information age and I see a philosopher as just someone with a distinct opinion

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Ayn Rand. I know Objectivism doesn't get a lot of love with most philosophers, lol, but I don't care.

I should also say I am an Objectivist, not a Randist. Rand has mentioned things that I believe are contradictory to Objectivism.

These are all issues for longer discussions, but I am intrigued how others will respond to this question.

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