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Your favorite 7 Philosophers?

Your favorite 7 Philosophers?

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Can you name your favorite 7 Philosophers of all time (East and West)?

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Socrates
Nietzsche
Descartes
Schopenhauer
Spinoza
Kierkegaard
Berkeley

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Wittgenstein

That's it.

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Your question prompts another question as why one would have seven favourite philosophers? I could rattle off a few names, but I could give no reason why I would nominate them as being my favourite....I have read some of the following:

Machiavelli
Rosseau
Thomas Paine

I am not too sure if you considere Thomas More or Mao Tse-tung as philosophers.

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Confucius
Laotzu
Socrates
Aristotle
Nietzsche
Machiavelli
Hesse
Taylor, Ken

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Schopenhauer
Nietzsche
Russell
Socrates
Marx
Hume

Only read pieces of both Hegel and Heidegger. Discussed them with my wife who has read some of their works, but I don't have enough experience with them to place their names on the list. I guess I've run out of names just one short.

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George Bernard Shaw
Jonathan Swift
Douglas Adams
Terry Pratchett
Pythagorous

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Originally posted by Nietzsche1844
Can you name your favorite 7 Philosophers of all time (East and West)?
Shankara
Plotinus
Aristotle
Kant
Berkeley
Russell
Wittgenstein

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Originally posted by bbarr
Shankara, Plotinus, Aristotle, Kant , Berkeley, Russell, Wittgenstein
I'm told that Nietzsche is not considered much of a philosopher by many academics. What do you say?

Right, my philosophical faves...well...

Pascal, Nietszche, Kierkegaard, Lewis Carroll, Foucault, Baudrillard, Bachelard.

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Perhaps you should have asked people to explain their suggestions.

I can't understand why Berkeley or Russell are so popular and as for virtually everyone chosing Nietzsche - well, really.

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Originally posted by dottewell

I can't understand why Berkeley or Russell are so popular and as for virtually everyone chosing Nietzsche - well, really.
I like Nietszche because he's funny, and his writing can be exceptionally powerful. Of course he can be ridiculous too...I cringe at his remarks on women...

Why do you say "well really"?

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Well I guess he could be in a top seven of most entertaining philosophers. But "favourite"?

He is the pet thinker of the misunderstood misanthropic teen.

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Originally posted by dottewell
He is the pet thinker of the misunderstood misanthropic teen.
You think they understand him?

Nietszche had a great influence on 20th century artists--both good ones (Yeats, for example) and not-so-good ones (Hitler). Philosophers like Foucault & Deleuze also owe him a great debt.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
I'm told that Nietzsche is not considered much of a philosopher by many academics. What do you say?

Right, my philosophical faves...well...

Pascal, Nietszche, Kierkegaard, Lewis Carroll, Foucault, Baudrillard, Bachelard.
Nietzsche wasn't particularly rigorous, which is why many analytic philosophers (including myself) don't find his work compelling. This is not to say that his work included nothing of value. I still like the Apollonian/Dionysian distinction.

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Originally posted by bbarr
Nietzsche wasn't particularly rigorous, which is why many analytic philosophers (including myself) don't find his work compelling. This is not to say that his work included nothing of value. I still like the Apollonian/Dionysian distinction.
Which disciplines if any do you think have taken Nietszche to heart (apart from literature studies)?