who is your favorite philosopher?

[x9x99988]

TItle. Someone who's philosophy with you agree the most

 

[maggineko]

Franz Kafka, if you count him! The melancholy in his work paired with his desire for life and love and acceptance really touched my heart. I've got something of a soft spot for him, and would like to get his signature tattooed on my collarbone.

Albert Camus has also been the man who articulated the words I've been thinking of since I was a kid, but I don't really like him considering he cheated on his wife lol. And I more or less have a crush on Dostoyevsky's fantastic character Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov.

 

[LRkin]

Max Stirner, because everything is a spook

 

[x9x99988]

Max Stirner, because everything is a spook

Real
That's amazing! What's your favorite works of his?

Franz Kafka, if you count him! The melancholy in his work paired with his desire for life and love and acceptance really touched my heart. I've got something of a soft spot for him, and would like to get his signature tattooed on my collarbone.

Albert Camus has also been the man who articulated the words I've been thinking of since I was a kid, but I don't really like him considering he cheated on his wife lol. And I more or less have a crush on Dostoyevsky's fantastic character Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov.

 

[LRkin]

That's amazing! What's your favorite works of his?

"The Unique and Its Property" is peak. A bit cynical, yet it's interesting to read. And "The False Principle of Our Education". I agree with him on that one, because education in my part of the world is really formal and was designed to shape a person.

 

[fluorescentpearl]

Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel possibly

 

[x9x99988]

"The Unique and Its Property" is peak. A bit cynical, yet it's interesting to read. And "The False Principle of Our Education". I agree with him on that one, because education in my part of the world is really formal and was designed to shape a person.

sick, stirner is so nice

 

[Set Real Goul]

Well, these philosophers have had a pretty big influence on me.

Hume — a treatise of human nature, Wittgenstein — Tractatus Logico philosophicus, Ockham, Plato — the allegory of the cave is just too good. And there are also so many interesting debates and arguments in his dialogues.

I'd like to add Kant, Aristotle, and Hegel, but their texts aren't really accessible to me in the languages I can intuitively understand them in. My English isn't good enough for reading them, so for now I've only learned about them through lectures.

And one of the most recent things that has improved me is Charles S. Peirce and his lectures on pragmatism. It's really cool that he founded that whole school of thought. But right now I don't really have the energy to study more pragmatic texts.

 

[Sphinxi]

I like Wittgenstein and the american pragmatists. William James is good if you're into cookey stuff. I also liked adalastar macIntyre. Sun and steel is not really philosophical but mishima has excellent prose.

And one of the most recent things that has improved me is Charles S. Peirce and his lectures on pragmatism.

The fixation of belief is a gem.

Wittgenstein — Tractatus Logico philosophicus,

I remember reading the entire tractatus in a weekend when it was assigned to me for a class. The investigations is much more entertaining and less grandiose, though. Some of his middle work is also worth checking out.

What's your favorite dialogue from plato? I like the gorgias.

 

[Pluto]

 

[Set Real Goul]

I remember reading the entire tractatus in a weekend when it was assigned to me for a class. The investigations is much more entertaining and less grandiose, though. Some of his middle work is also worth checking out.

Yeah, I've read the investigations too, and they're great. But the tractatus resonated with me more at the time I read it, and it sparked a lot of thoughts for me back then. I've always found it kind of amusing that the ordinary language philosophers took language so incredibly seriously. Anscombe, with her attempts to get around Hume's guillotine; Wittgenstein in general…

What's your favorite dialogue from plato? I like the gorgias.

My favorites are the republic, since that's what got me into philosophy in the first place, and it's just really interesting on its own gorgias is great too.

 

[letsnotmakeittoo22]

Franz Kafka, if you count him! The melancholy in his work paired with his desire for life and love and acceptance really touched my heart. I've got something of a soft spot for him, and would like to get his signature tattooed on my collarbone.

Albert Camus has also been the man who articulated the words I've been thinking of since I was a kid, but I don't really like him considering he cheated on his wife lol. And I more or less have a crush on Dostoyevsky's fantastic character Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov.

I adore the metamorphosis!

I love Nietzsche , but also diogenes. I wish I could live in a wine barrel.

 

[Stargate]

Phytagoras but he wasn't a traditional philosopher per se, more like a mysterious spiritual even culty figure. People today know him for contribution to mathematics particularly Phytagorean Therom but his science contributions go far beyond that. For instance, he basically came up with the music theory and taught that Earth was a spherical shape, 2000 years before Magellan sailed around it and it was accepted as truth. He was also vegetarian and believed in reincarnation. Some say name Phytagora came from Sanskrit words Pita Guru meaning True Master, so I believe he could have been spiritually enlightened person. I recommend reading a book called Life of Phytagoras by Iamblicus, another author from antiquity.

 

[limenlux]

I'd probably go with Jean Baudrillard, to the extent that I can understand his work.

 

[Luchs]

I don't k ow if you can really strictly count him as a philosopher, especially in his early works, but I adore Ernst Jünger. The underlying philosophy of the little of his writings I've read just really resonated with me. I came to similar conclusions as he did on some things before reading, with other he expanded my worldview or voncisely put things into writing that I attempted to, but hadn't yet put together.
It's brutal yet beautiful.