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Who is the best philosopher and why?
Tobias
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quote post #21
Posted Dec 28, 2004 - 12:37 AM:

A what is wrong with Marx?

B. Where the hell is Hegel?

If I have to choose from the list I would choose Plato.
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quote post #22
Posted Dec 28, 2004 - 12:39 AM:

Tobias wrote:

B. Where the hell is Hegel?



Beats me..I think I saw him step out for a beer...
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quote post #23
Posted Dec 28, 2004 - 1:07 AM:

Boy, that philosopher guy, Other, is winning hands down..
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quote post #24
Posted Dec 28, 2004 - 1:21 AM:

jaoman wrote:
As in Miyamoto?

The one and only!
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quote post #25
Posted Dec 28, 2004 - 3:31 AM:

Tobias wrote:
A what is wrong with Marx?

B. Where the hell is Hegel?
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I also thought about putting Marx there... But again he was the granddaddy of Communism, and this being an American forum... I did not think that he would have been clicked on anyways ...

Again sorry all... (If polls could have more than 10 options...)
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quote post #26
Posted Dec 28, 2004 - 3:36 AM:

Paul wrote:
A google search shows that, according to this, Gurdjief is "a Greco-Armenian charismatic con man who was born in Russia but made a name for himself in Paris as the mystic George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff" who "promoted a litany of preposterous occult and mystical notions about the universe, which he claimed he was taught by wise men while traveling and studying in Central Asia. [...] He allegedly exuded extreme self-confidence and exhibited no self-doubt, traits which must have been comforting to many people. His teachings, however, often seem like the delusions of a Gnostic madman."

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As much as I do not agree with Gurdjief, I do not think that you clicked on the most unbiased site (skepdic.com). In all due respects to skepticism and all, some revolutionary ideas are usually ridiculed and rejected at first....
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quote post #27
Posted Dec 28, 2004 - 4:13 AM:

I was torn between Aristotle and Kant, but decided to go with Aristotle because his work has the added bonus of legibility grin
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quote post #28
Posted Dec 28, 2004 - 4:29 AM:

"I also thought about putting Marx there... "
And still not Hegel? He didn't even rank eleventh mad Ah well I have to talk about my hobby elsewhere it seems....cry cry bohoo
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quote post #29
Posted Dec 28, 2004 - 4:34 AM:

Nietzsche and his children (i.e. Freud, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, etc.) grin
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quote post #30
Posted Dec 28, 2004 - 6:09 AM:

I woted for Kant. But where has Schopenhouer gone. Am I the only one who thinks his world as will and representation is the iceberg of all philosophy.
 
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