Who is your favorite philosopher?

[Rapière]

I wonnder how many people who mentionef Nietzsche actually read Nietzsche. Nuance is key to his philosphy -- by trying to compress his ideas into a 10-minute long video, you inevitably end up obscuring and falsifying their true meaning. I guess this could be said about any philospher, except for the Stoics, but it's particularly true of Nietzsche.

 

[weirdog]

rumi

 

[leavingthesoultrap]

Snufkin from the Moomins

 

[4am]

marx, never read him tho (true leftist theory)

 

[sserafim]

Albert Camus

 

[Temporal_Anchorite]

Robert Nozick

 

[Ulrich]

Hume, Spengler, Wittgenstein, Weininger, Nietzsche.

 

[Ferdinand Bardamu]

Plato because he's the only one I've read. If you consider Mussolini and Gentile philosophers, them too.

 

[lamargue]

Peirce, Husserl, Leibniz, Hume to name a few

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

[BoulderSoWhat]

My username gives it away lol

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I don't bother with philosophy much but I like david benetar for his antinatalism philosophy

 

[Plentiful_Despair]

Emil Cioran and Diogenes

 

[Marine]

Mark Passio.

 

[Plato'sCaveDweller]

Philipp Mainländer is my favorite (whose quote resides in my signature, one of my favorites from him). but my second place pick would be Arthur Schopenhauer.

 

[ebg]

Edward A. Graff.

 

[lamargue]

otto weininger

 

[yellowjester]

Nietzsche, Osho, Laozi, Montaigne

otto weininger

Unironically?

 

[lamargue]

Nietzsche, Osho, Laozi, Montaigne

Unironically?

i admire him in the same way that wittgenstein did

 

[yellowjester]

i admire him in the same way that wittgenstein did

How did Wittgestein admire him?

 

[lamargue]

How did Wittgestein admire him?

https://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/25535/sample/9780521825535ws.pdf

"We do know that Wittgenstein read Weininger during the First World War, that he still thought highly of his writing late in life, and that, in the early 1930s, he repeatedly recommended reading Weininger to his friends and students."

that's just proof that he did think highly of Weininger, though the degree of influence that he had over Wittgenstein's ideas isn't clear. but i compared my own love of Weininger to Wittgenstein's, in that Wittgenstein likely didn't have any ideological bent that attracted him to Weininger, i.e his characterology and gender typology as presented in Geschlecht und Charakter is separable from political ideas

 

[yellowjester]

https://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/25535/sample/9780521825535ws.pdf

"We do know that Wittgenstein read Weininger during the First World War, that he still thought highly of his writing late in life, and that, in the early 1930s, he repeatedly recommended reading Weininger to his friends and students."

that's just proof that he did think highly of Weininger, though the degree of influence that he had over Wittgenstein's ideas isn't clear. but i compared my own love of Weininger to Wittgenstein's, in that Wittgenstein likely didn't have any ideological bent that attracted him to Weininger, i.e his characterology and gender typology as presented in Geschlecht und Charakter is separable from political ideas

I see. But why is he your favorite - are his ideas that important to you?

 

[lamargue]

I see. But why is he your favorite - are his ideas that important to you?

only those ideas which he was right about, which admittedly were very few and far between. but that which i recognize as true in him are so compelling as to constitute true philosophic genius rivaled only perhaps by Kant. i admire his ideas both from a metaphysical and pragmatic view, as they have helped me navigate my own life considerably; his ideas on genius in particular were in such correspondence with my own as to convince me that he had antedated any and all modes of novel thought that i had conceived of thitherto