favorite philosophers

[LonesomeTexan]

Plato and St. Augustine here.

 

[Robbie_James_Francis]

Epicurus, John Stuart Mill, Hume and Bertrand Russell.

 

[Sitswithamouse]

Voltaire.
Socrates.

Modern and comical to date. Russel Brand.

 

[WatersMoon110]

I like Hume (because he's easy to read) and Kant (because I agree with a good chunk of what he said - though I greatly disagree with most of the rest of it).

 

[cantata]

Bertrand Russell. John Mackie.

Kant does my head in I'm writing an essay at the moment about whether or not he thought you need to act morally to be free.

 

[Futuwwa]

Plato and Confucius

 

[stan1980]

Kant does my head in I'm writing an essay at the moment about whether or not he thought you need to act morally to be free.

Just because one does your head in, there is no need to bypass the swear filter.

 

[cantata]

Just because one does your head in, there is no need to bypass the swear filter.

*doesn't get it*

 

[Futuwwa]

Huh?

 

[Futuwwa]

*thinks of possible homonymes of Kant*

 

[stan1980]

Think Kant and think female anatomy. Sorry, wasn't one of my better ones.

Incidentally, what does your favourite philospher have to do with E&M?

 

[Futuwwa]

*fires flintlock pistol in stan's general direction*

 

[cantata]

Think Kant and think female anatomy. Sorry, wasn't one of my better ones.

I thought that might be it, although it doesn't make a lot of sense Indeed, 'Kant' pronounced correctly does sound rather like...

Tutors generally avoid saying it like that, though

Incidentally, what does your favourite philospher have to do with E&M?

Goodness knows.

 

[The Nihilist]

Bertrand Russell. John Mackie.

Kant does my head in I'm writing an essay at the moment about whether or not he thought you need to act morally to be free.

cantata, let's start sending each other snooty PMs about the poor choices of those without academic backgrounds in philosophy. Anyone else who has such a background is welcome to join us.

Mine are Nietzsche and Heidegger, in that order.

 

[Verv]

John Locke, Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu and St. Augustine.

 

[cantata]

cantata, let's start sending each other snooty PMs about the poor choices of those without academic backgrounds in philosophy. Anyone else who has such a background is welcome to join us.

Yay! Intellectual snobbery ftw

Mine are Nietzsche and Heidegger, in that order.

I have no doubt that you're a proper fan of Nietzsche, too, rather than an angsty teenage one It amuses me greatly how disparaging Nietzsche would have been of many of the people who claim to ascribe to his views!

 

[TeddyKGB]

Going with the ones to whom I currently refer most: Plato and Dennett

 

[gwenmead]

de Beauvoir and Chuang-Tzu, this week.

 

[talkingmonkey]

Chuck Norris and SpongeBob SquarePants.

and to be serious: Noam Chomsky, Aristotle, Galileo Galilei, Carl Jung

 

[The Nihilist]

de Beauvoir and Chuang-Tzu, this week.

<3 existentialists

Also, Hannah Arendt (who was Heidegger's girlfriend, for a while)