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Who is your favorite philosopher?

I like Camus and Hume.

>> No.3421051

>inb4
>Camus
>philosopher

>> No.3421055

haha hume
haha camus who isn't even a real author much less philosopher haha

>> No.3421061

>>3421051

How is he not?

>> No.3421066

Leibniz.

>> No.3421074

Zizek erryday

>> No.3421081

>>3421055
any reason for your laughter?

>> No.3421086

Arendt.
Come at me, fuckers.

>> No.3421087

>>3421055
He's both, just not that great at either.

>> No.3421094

Laozi

>> No.3421096

I like Camus' fiction, but he isn't much of a philosopher. Hume's a boss though. Nietzsche and Foucault are my top two.

>> No.3421097

>>3421087

Do you even Plage/The Fall

>> No.3421101

>>3421097
Clamence is a whiny faggot.

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>>3421074

>> No.3421103

I am doubting between Adorno and Horkheimer

>> No.3421113

>>3421101
You're a whiny faggot.

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>>3421113

>> No.3421230

Mulla Sadra

>> No.3421242

Schopenhauer and Spinoza

/thread

>> No.3421249

I like Camus a lot. He wasn't particularly great at philosophy, but he seems to have been a truly good person, and that inspires me.

>> No.3421274

>favorite

Nietzsche. Dat prose, dat sardonic humour.

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>>3421249

>Truly good person

More like smug faggot. Did he think he was a fashion model or something?

>> No.3421281

>>3421086

Good

>>3421230

Excellent

>> No.3421302

>>3421043
Kant. By far. A lot of philosophers I find hard to take seriously because their style makes them sound like they're just mad, but Kant doesn't lose his cool.

>> No.3421306

>>3421302
Do you agree completely with his ethics?

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I like Diogenes and Aristippus and Epicurus and Stirner and Sade and Nietzsche the most.

>> No.3421315

>>3421312

Well look at this edgy fellow.

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“Beware the man of a single book.”

>> No.3421325 [DELETED] 

>>3421315
I'm sorry. I'm completely sincere though.They're the ones from who I've benefited the most personally. I guess I'm just a pretty edgy guy.

>> No.3421326

>>3421306
For the most part, yes. I'm still unsure about his implications that animals and the mentally handicapped could be excluded from morality as irrational beings, but I think the reason-morality equation is a very helpful concept.

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>>3421312

>> No.3421364 [DELETED] 

>be Kant
>yeah I like only smoke one bowl a day bro in the morning before I get out of bed
>it's like my maxim that I never smoke more than one bowl a day bro
>i can handle it bro

>bowl gets bigger every time
>smokes a single gigantic bowl every morning
>muh maxim

>> No.3421373

piggybacking on this thread

reading Plato's The Republic for the first time (project gutenberg Jowett translation). There's a summary (and reflection etc.) to all the arguments included.

Good idea to read those first? Pro: can see the big picture before reading everything. Con: miss joy of following argument through

>> No.3421375 [DELETED] 

>>3421373
Read the actual thing first. Don't start out with other peoples opinions as baggage.

>> No.3421381

Alan Watts

>> No.3421393

Contemporary: Slavoj Zizek

(is struck by a shoe)

Classical: Plato.

>> No.3421411

hume>kant
hume5ever

>> No.3421430

>>3421043

I like Sartre, Kierkegaard and Socrates a lot. Though admittedly I like the socratic approach of dismantling assumptions more than most of the philosophy.

>> No.3421437

>>3421364

deeeeep nigga

>> No.3421449

>>3421094
Bitch please, laozi is just too lousy

>> No.3421456

Wittgenstein, Ryle, Frege, JL Austin, William James

>> No.3421459

Kojeve

>> No.3421462

Kierkegaard, Kant, Hume, Nietzsche

>> No.3421463

>>3421373
Read them as you go along. They will help and hopefully provide suggestions for more modern readings along the same lines.

It's said that philosophy is just a series of footnotes to Plato [I think this is true up till the early 20th century,] so its best for you to read the full version, with the 'footnotes'

>> No.3421554

>>3421364
>Meanwhile, Hume is just sporadically smoking bowls of constantly variable sizes and potencies, with no idea why or how he's doing it.

>> No.3421571

>>3421364
whoa bro far out

>> No.3421575

Adorno

>> No.3421579 [DELETED] 

Kant actually did this though.

>> No.3421602

Stirner

>> No.3421605

Hank Hill

>> No.3421615

>>3421279
>dat file name

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Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Kant.

Is there really any other way?

>> No.3421637

>>3421629
Why is there Heraclites but no Parmenides?

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Now post misconceptions about your favorite philosopher. I'll start.

>"Nietzsche didn't think master morality was superior to slave morality."

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3421648

Wittgenstein...

Because I just can't get any use out of the others. They mean little in comparison. He was on the right Tract to enable me to picture what language is. Plus he was witty, and knew how to stop talking when he couldn't really say anything more...

please don't hate me.

>> No.3421662

>>3421644
but her face....

>> No.3421674

>>3421605
>Hank Hill
>philosophy
His septic and propane dichotomy is clearly in the field of tankological sociology.

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>>3421242
ctrl F, Spinoza

My nigga.

>> No.3421680

>>3421637
Fashion.

>> No.3421682

Platonic Socrates, Plato

>> No.3421683

>>3421682
The difference being?

>> No.3421688

>>3421302
>but Kant doesn't lose his cool
>not knowing about READ SOME FUCKING TRAVEL LITERATURE AND LEAVE ME ALONE

>> No.3421691

Sasha Grey

>> No.3421699
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3421699

Diogenes

His apathy is inspiring

>> No.3421715

>>3421683
Plato changed his mode of thinking as he grew older; he stopped believing in a philosoper king. But his earlier works like the Phaedo, the Republic etc. are still good pieces of philosophy.

>> No.3421716 [DELETED] 

>>3421699
>Diogenes
>apathy
>dedicated his whole life trying to teach the Greeks wisdom

>> No.3421719

>>3421715
> as he grew older; he stopped believing in a philosoper king.
>this is how liberals reconcile their admiration for Plato with his Fascism

I guess that's better than the "it was ironic xD" coping method.

>> No.3421722

>>3421716
his apathy towards the opinions of the materialistic people around him

>> No.3421729

>>3421719
>liberal/fascism binary
>"Anyone who disagrees with me is thinking 'ironically' (whatever that means) and is stupid"
I see we gots a scholar right here.

>> No.3421735

>>3421722
>his apathy towards the opinions of the materialistic people around him
Is that someone holding up some salt fish?

>> No.3421742

lel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MH55YPm0

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calculatingexistence delete webs delete com/Calculating%20Existence delete pdf

Replace " delete " with "."

Very urgent since it may save the world (since it is about to end if you read the news)

Would type it out but (i) lazy and (ii) can't indent which is crucial to this text

>> No.3421785

Hegel

>He believes that the real world does not exist.

>> No.3421792

>>3421719
Lol for realz.

Though he still hated democracy. And so did socrates.

>Mfw liberals claim socrates one of their intellectual heroes

>> No.3421810

>>3421792
>Though he still hated democracy.

What good thinker doesn't?

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>>3421043

>Not posting the superior gif.

>> No.3422251

>>3421810
Rousseau was a proponent of a democratic form of government. But it would only be one part (branch), and it would be representative democracy.

>> No.3422261

Deleuze
>immanent metaphysics
>gives freud the dick
what's not to like?

>> No.3422267

>>3421648
>read this book I wrote about your silly problems and how words are so much more important
>end of book
>just kidding, get back to math retards!

Truly an unparalleled sage.

>> No.3422272

Bertrand Russell
you think 1+1 is 2. But he proved it. in 1900 pages that took 20 years to write with the help of another author.

>> No.3422279

>>3422272
Shit like this makes me laugh. Is there ever a point when people like this think "you know, maybe one is just representation of this abstract concept in my head? Yeah, I'll leave it at that."

>> No.3422280

Wait, what the fuck was wrong with the Myth of Sisyphus?

How the fuck do you people enjoy Kant?

>> No.3422752

No mention of Jesus? Is there noone on 4chan inspired and committed to h(/H)is message of love, kindness and humility?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

>> No.3422753

do Camus and Hume have anything in common?

>> No.3422757

>>3422753
yes, they are both white males

>> No.3422760

>>3422757

inb4

> Algerian
> White

>> No.3422767

I love the ideas of Godell, Berkley, Mises, and (fuck you guys) Lacan.

But my favorite is still Descartes. Something about him seems adorable. His writing is not only insightful, but spunky.

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>>3422752
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>> No.3422915

Parmenides, Plato, Plotinus, Berkeley, Hume, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Bradley, McTaggart and late Wittgenstein

>> No.3422924

>year of our dear leader kim jong illmatic
>getting a stiffy-willy for cow moos

plebs the lot of you

>> No.3422931

Thales, Diogenes, Aquinas, Berkeley, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Frankl (is he a philosopher?), and Grof (?).

>> No.3425066

>>3421043
hahahahahaha

Why didn't you throw Richard Dawkins on your list of favorite philosophers.

>> No.3425080

>>3421648
If you honestly thought he was advocating the face-value implications of the Tractatus, then you did not understand Wittgenstein at all. Join ranks with Rudof Carnap, Bertrand Russell etc. and watch Wittgenstein laugh at your folly and misunderstanding of his work.

>> No.3425085

>>3422752
Jesus Christ was God incarnate, not a philosopher.

>> No.3425094

I don't have a favourite. In fact I don't like them at all. I wouldn't want to stay in one room with a philosopher.

>> No.3425108 [DELETED] 

>>3425085
>our omnipotent lord
>not among other things a philosopher

Are you trying to start some shit, pal?

>> No.3425121

>>3425108

The last thing God would want to be is a philosopher.

>> No.3425124

>>3425080
The Analytics never understood wittgenstein

>> No.3425219 [DELETED] 

>>3425121
The last thing he wanted was to be tortured to death but he did it for us anyway.

>> No.3425243

>>3421629
>Jesus over Marcus Aurelius

>> No.3425283

>>3421306

Kant's ethics are like a logical consequence. You can't really live by them, at least with any will behind it.

>> No.3425331

Let's see:

John Rawls- love his theory of justice

Rosseau- Love the social contract

Plato- Most of what he wrote was fucking awesome especially the Republic

Kant- I took a course on his Critique of Pure Reason last quarter and although I learned alot, I still feel like a scrub when it comes to truly understanding him. I'm currently taking a course on his ethics mostly covering the Groundwork and it's some complicated shit. He's the penultimate philosopher. Perhaps the greatest who ever lived and will every live imo.

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>>3425331
>rawls
>le random designated place in the world without knowing experiment
>implying I could be anyone but me
>liberals in charge of into determinism

>> No.3425403

I'm surprised no one has said Heidegger. Are people unaware of him or just not enthralled by him or possibly repulsed by his entanglement with the Nazi party.

>> No.3425409

>>3425283
I've always thought of Kant as instead focusing on ethics as fulfilling man's need/desire/expectation that the world would be a rational, orderly. fair place.

>> No.3425411

Nietzsche and Epicurus.

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>>3421043
Mah boi Epictetus all day, erryday.

>> No.3425479

Mill. Nietzsche.

>> No.3425495

>>3422280
because he was right, unlike every other faggot ever

Philosophy peaked at Kant

>> No.3425509

Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard.
They write with much wit and style.

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>>3421086
Excellent choice.
>>3421381
Zen (or semi-Zen?) I like him
>>3425411
Still not sure what to think of Nietzsche, but Epicurus is my Greek

I also think I might like Hume, but I'm only familiar with Paine

>> No.3425523

>>3425495
Define "right" in this instance.
Please.

>> No.3425539

>>3425523
The opposite of left.

>> No.3425545

>>3425539
That's not the instance I specified of course...

>> No.3425592

>>3425539
The opposite of left is returned. So returned is right.

>> No.3425638

>>3425592
The opposite of right is wrong, it's the only correct argument.

>> No.3425642

>>3425638
>The opposite of right is wrong
>implying is-ought

>> No.3425706

Nietzsche, but I'm pretty open to another's way to think morality (even though I don't like it at all)

>> No.3425819

>>3425706
>I'm pretty open to another's way to think morality (even though I don't like it at all)
>don't like it at all

Yep, Nietzsche is your destination.

>> No.3425824

William James. Dude can write, too.

>> No.3425841

>>3425331
>sucking Kant's dick

you know Hegel was the guy who was supposed to be the "penultimate" philosopher right? his absolutism caused a huge reaction and sparked existentialism from kierkegaard to nietzsche as well as marx

>> No.3425846

>>3425706
HAHAHAHAHAHA

NIETZSCHE IS A PISS DRINKER!

He just pisses out hate and then drinks more and then pisses it out again. Furthermore he never got laid. and getting laid is the meaning of life.

>> No.3425850

>>3421644
bullshit, Nietzsche thought slave morality was inferior to higher morality dumbass. Why do you think he wrote his books? To get men to get laid.

And getting laid is the meaning of life.