Guest happycase Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 I really respect Kant, Thoreau, Whitman, Plato, and the Indian sage Nisargadatta. I'd like to know about some more thinkers. Feel free to include insightful philosophers of art, poets, and others who inspire higher learning. I would also like to read quotes by them, so if you find something definitive to characterize their attitudes, I warmly welcome those into this thread. For me, Whitman embodies the philosophical ideal of all of the above mentioned thinkers in his poetry, so here is an excerpt from Song of Myself: I know I am solid and sound,To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.I know I am deathless,I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter’s compass,I know I shall not pass like a child’s carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.I know I am august,I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,I see that the elementary laws never apologize,(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.)I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audioblysk Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Redruth Group: EKT Plus Active Posts: 9717 Profile Views 57710 Member Title Redruth Age 3 years old Birthday October 19, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adieu Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 JCVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Great thread so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest happycase Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Emerson is my main man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 yeah aristotle, plato, socrates, anselm of canterbury, thomas aquinas, friedrich nietzsche, kant and Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest yikes Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 g.carlin descartes sun tzu Machiavelli ice cube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is a personal favorite of mine. i don't necessarily agree with everything he was putting forth, but i enjoyed a lot of it conceptually. he's the only philosopher i've read to any extent that i feel i can much comment on. i've read some Plato, Nietzsche, a few other bits and pieces here and there. i agree with yikes above me that Carlin should count. i'd include Bill Hicks in with that category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 For real? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 i honestly have a great deal of respect for any/all well known philosophers regardless of whether I ultimately agree with them or not. But if I had to pick absolutely one Im probably gonna go boring and say Nietzsche. Though lately Ive been reading a lot of Descartes and that man can write some vivid explanations. It seems to be a recurring trend with philosophy.....its incredibly hard to write your ideas eloquently and with vivid images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vamos scorcho Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Derrida and Deleuze are my top 2 guys. The whole movie, Examined Life, is a good intro to contemporary philosophy. The bit at 5:50 is informative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest happycase Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Right on, Vamos. Nice vid. She's very lucid and very Kantian. And also very trinity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerWaschbar Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Marquis De Sade's p. good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plarkreluke Banloboh Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Not a philosopher but I like her world-view: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 It's a bit hard for me to name names but in general I have respect for these guys though I don't necessarily agree with them on all points: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap, Hilary Putnam, Roger Penrose, Kurt Gödel and some classical Taoist philosophers like Zhuangzi and Laozi (probably fictional but anyway..). Probably there are some others too but can't come up with them now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Slavoj Zizek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugene Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 lol ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 zizek is fucking hilarious....i swear hes the andy kaufman of academia [youtubehd]U0jxclqEJD8[/youtubehd] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granty Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Buddha pretty much nailed it for me - but I've been enjoying Douglas Harding recently, another enlightened bloke who developed a series of straightforward 'experiments' to help people realise what they actually are: http://headless.org/experiments-video.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 ice cube I'm in the Ice T camp Much prefer Calvin and Hobbes the kid and tiger over Calvin and Hobbes the theologian and political philosopher. I like Plato, Kant, and little Nietzsche I've managed to read. I regret not taking philosophy in college. In the future I hope to study it more - (any recommendations btw? - the more introductory the better) I've become irreligious, especially toward Christianity. I it I attribute partially to reading and being enlightened by the Gnostic Gospels. It was like discovering an truthful alternative to mainstream Christian theology and for me personally it illuminated the illogical and immoral aspects of Christianity that troubled me in the first place. I'm now a spiritually inclined person with no set of beliefs to attach myself too - I feel like at some point I might explore Buddhism and other Eastern philosophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 <blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="mokz" data-cid="1927604" data-time="1357565879"><p> It's a bit hard for me to name names but in general I have respect for these guys though I don't necessarily agree with them on all points: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap, Hilary Putnam, Roger Penrose, Kurt Gödel and some classical Taoist philosophers like Zhuangzi and Laozi (probably fictional but anyway..).<br /> <br /> Probably there are some others too but can't come up with them now.</p></blockquote> first sensible post ITT cant quote on phone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 The greatest philosophers of the last century were Godel and Einstein, because they contributed the most in the way of an actual concrete advancement of human knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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