Greatest philosophers

[Essential Insignificance]

Who do you think are the five greatest philosophers ever?

You can interpret ''greatest'' any which way you please; because of originality, profoundness, method, etc.

[Postteen]

Marx
Engels
Epikourus
Aristotle
Trotsky

(+Rousseau,Darwin,Voltaire,[if i wrote them right],Sartre,Socrates[we're not sure if he really existed though..]I add Hume and Kant because they were great philosophers but they were the firsts agnostics).plus Hegel and Lenin.Grrr!!I can't tell!All of them were great.

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

For contributions : Kant, Hegel, Marx (The German School)

For influence: Nietzsche.

Others: Spinoza.

[Anarchist Freedom]

marx&engels
socrates
aristotle
my friend eric

[percept¡on]

Aristotle
Rousseau
Nietzsche
John Stuart Mill
Marx
Machiavelli
Kant


just my personal favorites.

[Trissy]

In no particular order:

Nietzsche
Kant
Hume
Sartre
Descartes

If I were to mention more then five then I'd immediately add
Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza and Mill.

[Essential Insignificance]

Well I may as well but down my…in no particular order.

Aristotle
Descartes
Hume
Kant
Marx

I think I missing someone...(to be continued)

[elijahcraig]

Nietzsche, Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Marx, Hume.

Some that I consider philosophers that usually aren't considered as such: Joyce and Blake.

[Guerrilla22]

Hegel and Marx.

[Hiero]

If kant and Hume were idealist and Marx and Engels Materialist, then how can your favourites be from both camps of philosophy.

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

Because philosophy isnt as sectarian as politics.

You will also note the question is based on whatever you like, influence etc.

[Wenty]

plato, aristotle, descartes, kant, marx

[percept¡on]

Originally posted by [email protected] 1 2004, 07:10 AM
Hegel and Marx.
only two you've bothered to read I presume

[Comrade Latino]

Kant
Engels
Marx
Rousseau
Nietzsche
Spinoza

[che's long lost daughter]

Plato, Nietzsche, Marx

[Lardlad95]

1. THe Buddha
2. Marx
3. Mill
4. Rousseau
5. Kant

[Individual]

No Foucault, Epictetus, or Jaspers? :)

Foucault, Jaspers, Nietzsche and Sartre in general.

Epictecus on the individual and our behavior.

[Latin American Socialist]

Niccolo Machiavelli
Karl Marx
Sub-Comandante Marcos
Che Guevara
Vladmir Lenin

[Wenty]

Niccolo Machiavelli
Karl Marx
Sub-Comandante Marcos
Che Guevara
Vladmir Lenin

What?! What on earth are che and marcos doing in that list let alone lenin! This is a greatest philosophers list!

[kroony]

Silence, capitalist pig!

[Essential Insignificance]

Quite the surprise!…on message boards abroad, Hegel, Nietzsche, Rousseau as well as Marx are dismissed as the four most overestimated philosophers in world narration; but they seem to have a strong following here…Marx of course would be a given "great", considering the board category.

But the last two, aren’t really philosophers in the narrow sense of things ,I guess.

[Latin American Socialist]

Silence, capitalist pig! who wenty or I?

And OK, che and lenin aren't philosphers, but marcos is.

Marx

Machiavelli

Buhda

Marcos

Plato

[elijahcraig]

Why do you people keep listing Marcos? He's not a philosopher.

[BuyOurEverything]

Marx
Nietzsche
Levinas
Bentham

In no particular order.

[Lardlad95]

Originally posted by Essential [email protected] 1 2004, 11:34 PM
Quite the surprise!…on message boards abroad, Hegel, Nietzsche, Rousseau as well as Marx are dismissed as the four most overestimated philosophers in world narration; but they seem to have a strong following here…Marx of course would be a given "great", considering the board category.

But the last two, aren’t really philosophers in the narrow sense of things ,I guess.
I said Rousseau

[Hiero]

Woukd you call the Buddha a philosopheir. It seems throught reading test at www.buddhanet.net that he should be tittle more of a observer.

[Essential Insignificance]

I said Rousseau

What’s your point?

[7189]

I'm dead keen on Albert Camus. My favourite book is The Outsider. I love his style and philosophy. It is a philosophy that I subscribe to, but I cannot fully comprehend it which makes it rather enigmatic. It is this quality which makes it really interesting to me. I keep giving my life meaning all over the place, I find it hard to comprehend the complete absurdity of it all. However, when I begin to understand, it makes me feel really good for some odd reason. I feel all warm inside. I love those exisential moments. Unlike Antoine of Sartre's Nausea, I relish them. However, when I have them, I don't give into the absurd, I always create some meaning. I suppose this comes from my aims and ambition. I aim to do accomplish great things. I aim to live a happy life. These 'fight' the absurdity, so to speak, which I suppose is to some extent absurd. Albert Camus, what a guy...

[Guerrilla22]

Originally posted by percept¡[email protected] 1 2004, 02:41 PM
only two you've bothered to read I presume
The only two I'm really familar with. Philosophy isn'y my strongest area.

I spent a semester studying Machiavelli and Locke, but I wouldn't call them great, or even good, Machiavelli was an imperialist, who promoted absolute toltalitarianism in all aspects of society and Locke was more concerned about the ability of a person to be free to own anything and everyhting, without any limits than actual human life. "Life, liberty and the pursuit of property."

[che's long lost daughter]

I realized i have to put five so i would like to add these Oriental philosophers:

Gautama Buddha
Confucius

[percept¡on]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2004, 05:06 AM
The only two I'm really familar with. Philosophy isn'y my strongest area.

I spent a semester studying Machiavelli and Locke, but I wouldn't call them great, or even good, Machiavelli was an imperialist, who promoted absolute toltalitarianism in all aspects of society and Locke was more concerned about the ability of a person to be free to own anything and everyhting, without any limits than actual human life. "Life, liberty and the pursuit of property."
The Prince does not outline Machiavelli's political philosophy. Is a treatise on the acquisition and maintenance of power in a principality. The Discourses is his masterwork, and the one in which he describes his ideal government, the republic.

[Lardlad95]

Originally posted by comrade [email protected] 2 2004, 01:41 PM
Woukd you call the Buddha a philosopheir. It seems throught reading test at www.buddhanet.net that he should be tittle more of a observer.
Buddhism is more of an action philosophy than a regular philosophy. With most philosophy it's simply a way of thinking. With Buddhism it's a way of thnking but also a way of thinking.

So i would consider the buddha a philosopher, but not in the same sense as hegel or spinoza or someone

[Lardlad95]

Originally posted by Essential [email protected] 2 2004, 01:44 PM

What’s your point?
sorry I miss read you I thought you said no one mentioned Rousseau

[Monty Cantsin]

Rousseau
jean-paul sartre
Marx, and many other marxists philosphers.

[nakba]

Without any doubt my grand-aunt Mainha..

the only person i know that has a theory about how Jesus was communist because he lived in a community (not like those fucking russian communists that wanted all the money to them has she eloquently says)


but she doesn't stop here, she also has a theory that explains that if you find something, you didn't actually finded it, it was Saint Fatima that made you find it, and if you disagree, your an god damn heretic!



She's awsome...

[Wenty]

not wanting to rain on your parade but Jesus being the first communist, socialist or whatever is an idea i've heard around before. In fact i think someone has a sig with Gorbachov or someone saying it.

[nakba]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2004, 02:21 PM
not wanting to rain on your parade but Jesus being the first communist, socialist or whatever is an idea i've heard around before. In fact i think someone has a sig with Gorbachov or someone saying it.
yes, but he didn't said that Jesus was a communist because he lived in a community.. and there's the big philosofic difference....

[Zorio]

Gautama Buddha
Plato
Lao Tzu
Marx
Aristotle