Who is your favorite philosopher?

[Rainy_days]

Plato. He was an artist as much as a philosopher.

 

[newave3]

Yogi Berra.

What time is it?
Yogi " You mean now?"

 

[Susannah]

Kant, just all in in what he believed

I studied philosophy 1y, and Immanuel Kant was my favorite too. I struggled a lot to understand his thoughts of space and time, but when I finally did, I got amazed.

He was a bit sexist though:

"The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires".

But I love this quote"

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals".

 

[zeenatax]

Taoism is not my major, so I could be wrong. But I think the general interpretation would be that, since Taoism sees the distinction between death/living is a illusion and sees death/living as the same, so killing yourself is not what they would recommend for you.

I don't know if we can trivialize the whole philosophy like that but hey, for the fun of it, if death and living are same, then choosing death is not different from living. Besides, in living you have to struggle and in death there is no struggle. And Taoism teaches us to live our lives like a river which means to flow like a river and not to struggle against anything in life. If we can't live like a river then where does that leave us?

 

[stermc]

Socrates, Plato, Clóvis de Barros Filho, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Zygmunt Bauman, Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault. Guess that's it!

 

[DeSade]

Jung and Nietzsche.

 

[Source Energy]

David Benatar, Emil Cioran and Arthur Schopenhauer.

 

[MyFinalProject]

Arthur Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

 

[hungry_ghost]

Fernando Pessoa.

Maybe technically he wasn't a philosopher, but goddamn he had some amazingly poetic and precise observations on existence.

"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."

 

[MelancholyMagic]

Nietzsche

What do you like about Nietzsche?

 

[hrsprayqn]

Who is your favorite philosopher?
My favorite philosophers are Spinoza and schopenhauer!

SPINOZA


SCHOPENHAUER

Karl Marx, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault. I may be suicidal but by God will I be a Marxist til the day I ctb

 

[nico_wren]

Friedrich Nietzsche <3

 

[BroodingBleu]

This one may be a little outlandish but it always tesinated with me from when I was younger;

The ancient greek philosopher Pyrrho which later led to the philosophy of Pyrrhonism. A philosphy of skepticism of belief in truths or biases. a quote from one of his students as Pyrrho himself was said by historians to never have taken notes during his lifetime leasing to his teaching being passed down through his mentorship. Obviously meaning that everything from history is at most, subjective.

"The things themselves are equally indifferent, and unstable, and indeterminate, and therefore neither our senses nor our opinions are either true or false. For this reason then we must not trust them, but be without opinions, and without bias, and without wavering, saying of every single thing that it no more is than is not, or both is and is not, or neither is nor is not."​

 

[Grayfield]

E. M. Cioran.
- 'I anticipated witnessing in my lifetime the disappearance of our species. But the gods have been against me.'
The Lure of Disillusion.

 

[Suicidе]

Inmendham, very honest and straight-forward person

 

[buyersremorse]

Nietzsche or camus

 

[stermc]

I'd like to add Emil Cioran, Jung and Marx to my list.

 

[Parting Sorrow]

George Carlin

 

[Lora_logphant]

I really like Camus, Jung, Nietzsche and taoism related stuff.

 

[disillusion]

Marcus aurelius

 

[leahfocusplease]

Levinas, Hegel and Blanchot are the only ones i can say with a straight face i like. the rest are either to be learned from after a lot of parsing (e.g. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schelling), to be expanded upon by aid of external influences (e.g. Deleuze, Derrida, Husserl) or thrown into the garbage entirely (e.g. modern stoicism, or all of the 'analytic' school)

 

[JD_looking_for_avi]

I'm part of the "suffering" club: Arthur Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

 

[Madanascar]

Artwork credit to /u/AiMSTAR96 on Reddit

Epictetus, because he acts as sort of a "razor" to the convoluted and problematic mess philosophers over the ages have made in their responses to life's simplest questions. After spending much time pondering over the ponderings of old dead white men, I personally arrived at the conclusion that philosophy should serve only two important concepts: pragmatism (putting learned wisdom into practice) and epistemology (how do I know what I know is true?). The latter harks back to Plato, namely with his Allegory of the Cave surrounding the question "what is the nature of reality?" Honorable mention goes to Buddha because I agree with his answers in response to that very question, in that the nature of reality just is and suffering (Duḥkha) arises from our desire for it to be what it isn't. This is a core concept in Stoicism and Epictetus' writings as well, although I'm not sure if there's a name for it within Stoicism. It's that of how one can be mentally freed from this suffering in the abstinence of attaching a "good" or "bad" to the world and events that are otherwise unconcerned with us as the observer.

 

[81-Z@P@D]

Schopenhauer, Dostoyevsky, Baudrillard, The Greeks, Mozi

 

[sunshiningbackwards]

Still Schopenhauer for sure. Pessimist till they pat me on the head with a shovel

 

[Flemie1227]

Levinas, Hegel and Blanchot are the only ones i can say with a straight face i like. the rest are either to be learned from after a lot of parsing (e.g. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schelling), to be expanded upon by aid of external influences (e.g. Deleuze, Derrida, Husserl) or thrown into the garbage entirely (e.g. modern stoicism, or all of the 'analytic' school)

I see that you are familiar with French philosophy and I feel compelled to know more about your thoughts.
Now that you mention Hegel, What are your views about the works of Kojeve and Hyppolite?
And about what inside the garbage can.
What is this "modern stoicism"? And which are authors behind that kind of school of thought?
And about the "analytic" school, Have you read Brandom?
Just curious.

 

[leahfocusplease]

I see that you are familiar with French philosophy and I feel compelled to know more about your thoughts.
Now that you mention Hegel, What are your views about the works of Kojeve and Hyppolite?
And about what inside the garbage can.
What is this "modern stoicism"? And which are authors behind that kind of school of thought?
And about the "analytic" school, Have you read Brandom?
Just curious.

thank you for asking!
i haven't finished Hyppolite's Genesis, but what i have read shows a great maestry of the movement of hegelian thought. i have not yet read Kojève, though when i return to Lacan i'll probably give his lectures a fair go.

by modern stoicism i more or less mean this current revival of stoic ethics as self-help. the whole constellation of that movement is repellant to me, especially their worship of struggle and suffering for its own sake.

i have not read Brandom! but i want to elaborate a bit on my dismissal of the analytic school. Frege is important, as is the PM. the mainstream anglophone movement that took those two as their models and dismisses all other thought as 'obscure' or 'charlatanism', though, is the polar opposite of everything i stand for.

philosophy to me is not arguments and proofs for ideas, but risking your very life in pursuing thought.

 

[Atwr]

Socrates

 

[angelysium]

Sartre.

 

[Pluto]

Philosoraptor.