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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:01 PM Original message |
Your favorite philosopher |
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Parche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. Midlodemocratus |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:43 AM Response to Reply #1 |
35. Testocles is the best philosopher. |
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Parche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 11:38 AM Response to Reply #35 |
45. he has balls |
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evlbstrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. George Carlin. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Seconded. My first thought. |
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evlbstrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 10:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. I do believe he used the Socratic method. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. Democritus. |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. Rene Girard, Bill Hicks (yes, I think he's a philosopher), Meister Eckhart, Carl Sagan |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Sagan? |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 09:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. I like Meister Eckhart as well. |
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Shine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
7. Where are the women on your list? |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
8. Jeremy Bentham.... |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 01:23 AM Response to Reply #8 |
29. How many dead bodies do you have at your place to remind you of the joys |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:37 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Do you really think I keep them around? |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 10:28 AM Response to Reply #33 |
43. Well, according to Bentham, keeping them around was one of the joys of utilitarianism. |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 11:53 AM Response to Reply #29 |
46. You have to admit, he is a great looking stiff... |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #46 |
65. He had some weird ideas, but he was a great liberal. |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 07:48 PM Response to Reply #65 |
70. I admit... |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
9. Mick Jagger. |
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KSinTX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. Definitely Aristotle |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
11. Hume. |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
12. Epicurus nt |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
14. Nietzsche |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. Reggie from down the street. |
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FKA MNChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
16. Reinhold Niebuhr |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
18. Epicurus |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
19. Who said this? |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:23 AM Response to Reply #19 |
31. The Jesus dude. |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 09:19 AM Response to Reply #31 |
39. Yep! |
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UndertheOcean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
20. I have to pick two : Spinoza and Kierkegaard |
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blitzen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
21. Averroes, Al-Farabi, or Maimonides. Hegel and Heidegger, too. |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
22. Kierkegaard, hands down. |
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leeroysphitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
23. Voltaire. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
24. Immanuel Kant, hands down. |
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Ivan Sputnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
25. Derrida |
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Rambis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 04:38 PM Response to Reply #25 |
64. Agree |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-25-08 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
26. Dr. Steven Best, PhD and yes, Mohandas Gandhi |
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enigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
27. Norman O. Brown |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 01:21 AM Response to Original message |
28. Socrates |
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buzzycrumbhunger (793 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:09 AM Response to Original message |
30. Alan Watts |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 10:29 AM Response to Reply #30 |
44. Some good lectures here: |
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buzzycrumbhunger (793 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 04:14 PM Response to Reply #44 |
62. Oooh--you should subscribe to the podcasts |
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hellbound-liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 07:15 PM Response to Reply #30 |
68. Alan Watts is also high on my list |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 07:23 PM Response to Reply #30 |
69. Watts for me, too. |
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travelingtypist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:32 AM Response to Original message |
32. F.H. Bradley |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:42 AM Response to Original message |
34. Aquinas isn't a philospher, he's a scholastic theologian. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 11:56 AM Response to Reply #34 |
47. Theology is philosophy. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:44 AM Response to Original message |
36. Charles Bukowski! |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:51 AM Response to Original message |
37. spicoli |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
38. Lily Tomlin |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
40. Bertrand Russell |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
41. Kierkegaard |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
42. Epicurus, Spinoza, Hume, Voltaire. |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:29 PM Response to Reply #42 |
52. What you said...PLUS J.S. Mill... |
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NoGOPZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
48. Yogi Berra nt |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
49. Hobbes, Marx, Arendt |
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knowbody0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
50. Bukowski |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
51. All I know is that it isn't Nietzsche. |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:47 PM Response to Reply #51 |
55. World class douchebag that one! |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 03:17 PM Response to Reply #55 |
58. You're not wrong. |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
53. I always liked Hume. He's my favorite skeptic. |
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av8rdave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
54. Sam Kinnison |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
56. José Ortega y Gasset |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 07:00 PM Response to Reply #56 |
67. I studied his work in a college intellectual history class |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 07:56 PM Response to Reply #67 |
71. I loved the way he referred to most people as "somnambulists" |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
57. Ernst Bloch, Heidegger and Wittgenstein. (nt) |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
59. I totally cannot stand philosophy. I can't process it. I once tried to take a |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
60. Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
61. Wei Wu Wei |
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Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
63. John Blutarsky |
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sohndrsmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-26-08 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
66. Walt Kelly, Mark Twain, Lao Tzu, Abraham Lincoln, Victor Frankl. |
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