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Which philosopher changed your life the most in a positive way?

>> No.15194968
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>>15194961
Jesus
Plato
Nietzche

>> No.15194979

>>15194961
Spinoza, Fichte and Weber

>> No.15194981
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I guess we could also include writers and poets. I'm just looking for suggestions for people to read up on.

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>>15194968

Based and nuancepilled.

>> No.15195015

Schopy helped me to cope with life

>> No.15195045

>>15194961
I was in an embarrassing state last year. I had to reread Plato's State for something. When he was determining the democratic man, it kicked me in the face. It set me straight again.

>> No.15195048

>>15194961
Unironically D+G

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>> No.15195072

>>15194961

Dosto
Nietzsche
Kierkegaard

And yes I am an overly emotional manchild

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>>15195048
who?

>> No.15195080

>>15195015
must have been a very pathetic life

>> No.15195148

>>15195080
it was like being born in hell

>> No.15195158

Aurelius.

>> No.15196767

>>15194968
This

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>> No.15197148

>>15194961
besides most of the enlightment thinkers,
lao tzu

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>>15194961

>> No.15197187

>>15195074
dolce and gabbana. pre-papal italian hedonist

>> No.15197215

>>15195158
based

>> No.15197225

>>15194961
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tC1GULbovo8

>> No.15197255

Plato
Aristotle
Nietzsche
Julius Evola
Giovanni Gentile

>> No.15197269

>>15194961
Heidegger

>> No.15197271

Ccf

>> No.15197296

>>15197225
this guys is totally nuts! WOW! how have i never listened to him before... Was he the first Peterson?

>> No.15197314

>>15197296
>seething brainlet
>getting filtered THIS badly

>> No.15197607

>>15196807
Based

>> No.15197615

>>15194961
none of them but this statue did

>> No.15198149

>>15195048
This. Despirtitualizing and not thinking too abstract is the real redpill.

>> No.15198171

>>15198149
Despiritualizing?

>> No.15198201 [DELETED] 

>>15194968
Same, minus Jesus

>> No.15198211

>>15195045
lol same, kind of btfo'd my whole lifestyle

>> No.15198213

Thoreau
Unamuno
Ortega & Gasset
Schopenhauer

>> No.15198215

>>15197225
based

>> No.15198217

>>15194961
Spengler

>> No.15198245
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Either Kierkegaard or Marshal Mcluhan

>> No.15198260

No philosopher has changed my life in a positive way

>> No.15198266

jordan peterson

>> No.15198281
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>>15194961
Nietzsche
Marx
Rick Roderick

>> No.15199383

>>15194961
Montaigne

>> No.15199543

>>15194961
Plato for raising me to the level of philosophical thinking
Kant for laying it all out for me
Nietzsche for inspiring the courage to think ahead

>> No.15199559

Sean Goonan

>> No.15199576
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not even close

>> No.15199624

Come use
Marky Mark
Shoran

>> No.15199643

>>15194961
Does Alan Watts count? I guess not really. I'm still gonna go with Alan Watts.

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I am 100% serious. Reading On Practice and On Contradictions cured my depression.

>> No.15200088

wittgenstein, he showed me how to die young and miserable

>> No.15200104

>>15194984
Based? Based on what?

>> No.15200107

>>15197255
Nietzsche and Evola actually had a big impact on me as well but why do you say Gentile?

>> No.15200123

>>15197255
Used to give tours of the Basilica where Gentile is buried, conveniently skipped over him.

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>>15194961
Sorel, Heidegger and Dugin.

>> No.15200312

Nietzsche
Wittgenstein
(Bataille)

>> No.15200332

>>15195072
Same

>> No.15200452
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>Do you carry the 5th wound anon? The blazing star? Oh, you're a Protestant? I'll show myself out.

>> No.15200521

>>15197225
So I watched this interview, and I get much of it, coming from a Zen + Nietzsche background, yes, but he has a great way of speaking to the point of the matter. I go to bed and sleep for 2 hours, because I was intensely tired. These 2 hours, they were weird, to say the least! My brain was constantly tricking itself, I was awake and not awake at the same time. At one point I was thinking I had stood up, was back on my computer, I felt the keyboard, the mouse, everything in my hands, but really my arms were still there on the bed, immobile. My thinking looped back on itself all the time, I was observing the trifecta of thought, the origin of thought, the destination of thought, the subject of thought, and its unreality--the uselessness of it all. Very trippy experience!

>> No.15200545

>>15199383
this is the only based answer in the whole thread. as for me, i would say my three most important ones are:
lucretius
carnap
nietzsche unfortunately

>> No.15200559

Indirectly Epictetus but honestly, Seneca and Aurelius.

>> No.15200574

You fags are throwing out a lot of names, but in what ways did any of these men actually change your lives?

>> No.15200586

>>15194961
Philosophers rarely change your life, you don’t need philosophy for that you need spirituality. If you have to read a philosopher because you’re scared of spirituality then read Nietzsche. Don’t read these other philosophers who get lost in abstractions because living in your head won’t help you. If you really want to change your life learn to meditate.

>> No.15200597

>>15200586
Spirituality does not exist, it is a stupid invention of the Modern age. Philosophy and religion, these have always been the same.

>> No.15200603

>>15194961
Bukowski.
Die happy you fugking losers.

>> No.15200618

>>15200597
I say spirituality because it’s a softer term so people don’t flip out when they hear the religion word and immediately start associating it with religious institutions and protties.
I’d say religion’s goal is different from philosophy, philosophy is about abstractions and religion is about becoming healthy. Though I agree in theory that they are supposed to be the same

>> No.15200675

>>15195074
deluze and guattari. Havent read their shit and dont care much but look them up.

>> No.15200685

>>15194961
Plato healed my schizo and replaced it with logic. Apart from that literature has been more useful than philosophy

>> No.15200826
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>>15194961
Schopenhauer, Spengler, Hitler

>> No.15200931

>>15197255
actually extremely based

>> No.15200998

>>15194961
Plato
Hume
Kierkegaard
Pascal
Kant
Heidegger.
Hegel.

>> No.15201191

>>15200559
based and wholesome

>> No.15201562

>>15198213
Please elaborate on the influence of both Spaniards, anon.

>> No.15201580

>>15200559
Good man, I also prefer the hispanoroman Stoics but I implore you to, at least, read the Enchiridion. Epictetus has a certain Laconian quality of style that is just ss good as the Emperor and Seneca the Younger.

>> No.15201729

Democritus
Kant
Schopenhauer

>> No.15201742

>>15194961
Shankara. And i'm not even Guenonfag. But he saved me from a lifetime of existential dread over the idea of death and going into nonexistence. Or maybe I just grew up and it happened to happen at the exact time as I was reading Shankara because I don't even remember the arguments.

I'll pick Shankara though.

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>>15200020
How so?

>> No.15202668

>>15194961
Rene Girard

>> No.15202741

>>15198260
This

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>>15194961
Without a doubt

>> No.15202923

>>15200586
>learn to meditate.
is there a guide or method you suggest?

>> No.15202959

>>15194961
none, i outgrew them all

>> No.15202965

>>15194961
Descartes. That man...

>> No.15202970

>>15202757
what are the real prerequisites to Nietzsche, or can one start at him and understand what he's saying without further knowledge?

>> No.15202975

Anon

>> No.15202996

>>15198260
you're both cucks, read emerson

>> No.15203027

>>15201742
Shankara is my choice also, his works require patience but are very rewarding

>> No.15204215

>>15194961
bump

>> No.15204326

Derrida

>> No.15204350

>>15194961
Plato really structured my thinking, big time.

Sartre for the humanist perspective of you are only what you did.

Camus, cause I”m edgy like that, but i had reached some conclusions before reading him the likes of accepting what is beyond your control and realising (to some extent) the absurd.

>> No.15205102

>>15199543
This is the Truth

>> No.15205151

J.B. Peterson

>> No.15205171

>>15197225
U.G is such a fucking basedcunt

>> No.15205764

>>15194961
Nassim Taleb, Robert Sapolsky, and Per Bak.

>> No.15206091

>>15202970
You don't "get" Nietzsche until you've spent at least 5 hours huffing your own farts and jacking off to the mirror.

>> No.15206109

Spinoza

>> No.15206123

>>15194961
Dante

>> No.15207264

>>15202970
In terms of the influences that are distinct in Nietzsche - Greek tragedy, Heraclitus, Plato, Schopenhauer, and maybe a little bit of Vedanta.
But he's also responding to a world of philosophy that requires some understanding of the development form the Greeks on to Descartes, Hume, and Kant. The more you understand of these people the better, as you get a clearer sense of the issues that Nietzsche means to address.

>> No.15207278

>>15194961
probably kant. i say this as someone who is generally critical of kant

>> No.15207306

>ctrl+F
>no Siddhartha

u slippin /lit/

>> No.15207325

Hume, Parmenides maybe Plato and Aristotle.

>> No.15207488

>>15198211
Yes. I saw that I was driven in circles and made unable to act in any significant way.

>> No.15207493

>>15194961
Myself.

>> No.15207592

>>15197255
criminally based

>> No.15207608

>>15200826
Just finished Mein Kampf, not really as enlightening as I hoped, more of an inspiring story, I think. What about Hitlers writings changed your life?

>> No.15207809

>>15207608
Hitler's writings have made me a really subtle and intelligent troll, I am now the bane of the liberal internet. Moreover, my intellect has become so supple it has become expressed physically in me - I now have the flexibility to suck my own dick, because of Hitler.

>> No.15207831

diogenes of sinope