Philosophy?

[SonicAKG 10]

Anyone here who likes Philosophy? If so which philosophers would you count among your favorites? For me I would say:

1. Aristotle

2.Plato

3.Plotinus

4.Avicenna

5.Aquinas

[Denim&Venöm 19,518]

Plato was a fun read. Descartes had some interesting ideas. Albert Camus had some fun thoughts with the notion of Absurdism. No specific authors, but eastern philosophy in general is appealing to me. It was a fun study years ago. 

[nolongerabout 403]

Voltaire. Even though he was french, he had some great ideas.

[Seraph 128]

I enjoy reading the works of most Philosophers to be honest, since I find their works to be enlightening in one way or another. I like reading as much of it as I possibly can in order to get a more well rounded view on things. I do have those that I favor over others and ones I find more applicable than others but I try to acknowledge all Philosophers with a certain degree of merit even if I may not agree with the majority of what they are saying. That's all part of the beauty of Philosophy. 

 

Among my favorites are Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, The Stoics, Lao Tzu, Thomas Paine, Voltaire, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx  Jean Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir .

Edited April 28, 2016 by Seraph

[On-Locoweed 108]

Friedrich Schiller all the way. I've found so much of the stuff he covers in his "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man" everywhere else in the humanities. He's probably my favorite Enlightenment philosopher. I also like Theodor Adorno, Guy DeBord, Arthur Danto, George Dickey, John Dewey, and David Hume. (I'm pretty big into aesthetic philosophy.)

[EpicEnergy 23,225]

I used to be interested in philosophy, but ever since I got depression I just stopped being interested in it.

[Splashee 28,568]

I skipped philosophy in school. I think there are good lessons to be learned, even when I haven't heard much about it.

[Treeglow Flicker 13,921]

Voltaire. Although, I've always liked him more as a writer and for his wit. In general, I study and practice a lot of far eastern philosophy related to Buddhism and Taoism. I usually dabble a lot with Buddhist koans. They're usually fun for provoking philosophical thought.

[TBD 17,257]

Karl Marx. I've known other philosophers but Karl is the one I'm more interested in. Even though his topic is mostly socialism and communism, I enjoyed the philosophical ideas behind politics and how history all ties to it.  

[Mini 454]

when I was studying historiography, I liked Foucault's idea of 'pouvoir-savoir'

power is based on knowledge and conversely power shapes knowledge according to its agenda. this is probably the most important issue with historiography; if the goal of an historian is to record the past "how it really was," according to Leopold von Ranke's scientific view of history, then Foucalt's 'pouvoir-savoir' makes this impossible. this therefore means that a recount of the past can never be objectively true, because an historian's motivations and resources are a product of their environment; how the established power structure influences them will in-turn affect their writings.

 

Edited May 11, 2020 by Mini