Which philosopher do you dislike the most and why? - Massive ego, autistic levels of verbosity, shallowness, degenerateness or just plain boring.

[Lemmingwiser]

John Money count? His work is the foundation of basically everything transgender.

He was of course an absurdly evil man.

John Money built on the work of Magnus Hirschfeld, who had the world's first tranny clinic until it was burned down by the nazi's.

They even tried a womb transplant to a man (killing him).

 

[skykiii]

To be perfectly honest, almost all of them. It takes a special kind of ego and overinflated sense of self-worth to think the way you live your life and view life should be the way everyone does. Of course, not all philosophers think that but a lot of philosophy is just a heap of bullshit with a tone that deeply implies that. Some ideas are reasonable and understandable but they're usually hidden gems of varying quality in a shit pile. Have the same thoughts towards ethics, which are honestly kind of more bullshit. It's all mostly stuff that sounds applicable on paper but is absolutely ruined by the endless complexity of real life.

I like Nietzsche for more or less saying go your own way, you fucking loser.

I have a similar issue, kinda.

Philosophy is something I sometimes indulge in but I usually find it boring, because it often feels like I'm reading some random blogger from before blogging was a thing. Literally I find myself wondering why I'm listening to this random guy with no qualifications who just decided to diarrhea their thought process all over a piece of paper versus that one.

I mean, at least if I come to KF and ask you guys for advice raising a puppy, that's useful to me. Big existential thoughts about the universe and life itself are only fun for an episode of Star Trek.

 

[God of Nothing]

I have a similar issue, kinda.

Philosophy is something I sometimes indulge in but I usually find it boring, because it often feels like I'm reading some random blogger from before blogging was a thing. Literally I find myself wondering why I'm listening to this random guy with no qualifications who just decided to diarrhea their thought process all over a piece of paper versus that one.

I mean, at least if I come to KF and ask you guys for advice raising a puppy, that's useful to me. Big existential thoughts about the universe and life itself are only fun for an episode of Star Trek.

It's a question with no answer.

 

[Heckler1]

This one is more to do with the people who constantly suck his cock: George Carlin. People act like he was some incredible deep thinker who made meaningful observations about life. Dude was just more concrete Seinfeld without the jew funniness.

 

[Jarolleon]

People who like philosophy have also been, in my experience, human trash. A lot of Commies (for some reason), a lot of narcissists, a lot of guys who don't know anything useful. I don't really have a problem with philosophy, but it attracts insufferable people in a way that no other discipline does.

My guess is that most of the genuinely good lessons that philosophers came up with tend to filter into the public consciousness and become common sense. Thus the philosophy buff doesn't gain any new good moral lessons from his studies, but he does learn all sorts of mental tricks he can use to convince himself that whatever impulsive, selfish behaviour he really feels like doing is justified, plus the usual intellectual arrogance.

There's something uniquely up-its-own-ass about the "one of these things is words words words and the other is the thing you didn't expect me to be talking about lol gotcha" joke format. Probably because you can see it coming three words in and yet it insists on going and going into you agree with the author that he's so very funny.

Anyway, my answer would have to be every French philosopher. All of French philosophy is just coomers trying to convince everyone else that being a syphilitic degenerate is actually cool and good. All of it.

If a French intellectual praises the Eternal Anglo, you know he's the exception because he has overcome the arrogance of his countrymen. However he will be a contrarian sperg about it like De Maistre.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Has Anyone mentioned Hegel? His philosophy is just the most unintelligible mumbo jumbo nonsense ever put on paper. Dude is the Schizoposter of 18th - 19th century.

 

[Seventh Star]

I've had time to think, and my answer is still Socrates. This man was the closest thing to a pre-historic, obnoxious, pseudo-intellectual redditor. I fucking hate this nigger and I hate how much other philosophers fawn over him.

 

[Telvanni]

Michel Foucault
Had to study him as part of my law program and even the professor kinda shrugged and called him a non-theorist theorist who's ideas were only really compiled post mortem and also Muh buttsex! and Muh power!

Only after I found out how much of a pedo and creep he was but I had already found him insufferable.

 

[Kung Pow]

I really hate Machiavelli the proto chud, he is the equivalent of an incel giving sex advice.
How it is better to be feared than loved if you can't have both? People that fear you will always be half-hearted and will not throw their lives for you and will most likely develop resentment, hatred and contempt towards you, like that retard Domitian from Ancient Rome, dumb faggot. And what about the kind of society that this retardation creates? It is because some people will take your goodwill for granted? Than it is not really love, isn't? Sound more like indifference to me than anything, fuckwit.
It just baffles me how politician pick this fucking meme of a philosopher to teach them about politics just because of his stupid meme quote and ignores his mistakes as a politician in a field that practice is everything.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Nietzsche, because of how widespread he got. Male barristas with manbuns and skinny jeans across the country discuss Nietzsche inbetween big gulps of each other’s tiny cocks. If you hit the uvula, it’s fifty points.

Don’t take life advice from someone who died crying in the street over a horse in the middle of a grand mal psychotic episode.

 

[Greggs]

Kant, cuz he has never left his basement

 

[ConsentAccidentVictimNo98]

Rawlz. The entire concept of the veil of ignorance is retarded. Had to do a political theory (philosophy) class once and the people leading it acted like he was god's gift to mankind.

Kant is at least readable if you're drunk/high

 

[Jarch6]

Has Anyone mentioned Hegel? His philosophy is just the most unintelligible mumbo jumbo nonsense ever put on paper. Dude is the Schizoposter of 18th - 19th century.

I also dislike Hegel and his process philosophy, in general process philosophy is a regression to the time of pre-socratic thought of the world being in chaos and flux. Such ideas inevitably (and de facto have) destroy the philosophic endeavor leading to retards like Marx throwing away metaphysics and adopting an internal pseudologic of action-reaction-synthesis that is unfalsifiable to external critique.

Sigmund Freud. Not only was he a horny unscientific fraud, he's basically the reason reddit midwits are always like "You hate spiders? You must be an arachnophile!" He could basically posit anything he wanted and if you disagreed he could come up with some gobbledygook reason why you're wrong and secretly want to fuck your mother. I don't have an issue with psychology as a whole but people bringing up Freud's ideas inevitably makes me want to barf. And bringing them up when you're not an expert in the field should be grounds for justifiable homicide.

He really doesn't deserve the title of the father of psychology given how many of his theories have been outright discredited. Yes, science is self-correcting and new ways of thinking replace the old, but is it fair to still give the man credit when almost all of his theories turned out to be hokum?

His thinking may have disappeared from academic discourse but his effect upon common speech has been profound. Any time you see one disregarding another's arguments and pinning the source of them on some underlying subconscious factor (usually a past trauma) that's Freud in action. Also ,tbf, I wonder how many of his ideas are accurate when limited to neurotic Jews like himself.

 

[The Gene Genie]

All the French ones, because they're French.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

I actually find many 20th century philosophers to be more insufferable than Ayn Rand. My least favorite is probably Michel Foucault. His philosophy is basically an extension of his weird sadomasochistic sex practices and he's probably one of the intellectual grandfathers of the woke SJW movement because everything is power. Thank god for AIDS.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Rawlz. The entire concept of the veil of ignorance is retarded. Had to do a political theory (philosophy) class once and the people leading it acted like he was god's gift to mankind.

What’s retarded about it?

 

[SilentDuck]

Nietzsche, because of how widespread he got. Male barristas with manbuns and skinny jeans across the country discuss Nietzsche inbetween big gulps of each other’s tiny cocks. If you hit the uvula, it’s fifty points.

He did inspire the German people in the 1940s and a certain German leader. Can't control what happens past y2k no one can.

Don’t take life advice from someone who died crying in the street over a horse in the middle of a grand mal psychotic episode.

It's a strange way for a nihilism tard to go. Claims of his brain brain being syphilitic from encounters with paid women. Horses, whores and social diseases, typical euro.

 

[khaine]

Foucault and all those French cunts who introduced cultural marxism to the world and anyone who introduced africana philosophy. They should all die the most painful of deaths.

These "thoughts" have irrevocably made the world worse off

 

[Windows XP Home Edition]

I don't know if this would count but I loathe most commentators on the American right. The most unempathetic and uncompassionate people on the planet it seems. They claim to stand against everything the modern left yet many of them are just narrow minded and dogmatic as they are. No tolerance for any views that deviate from theirs.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Nietzsche, because of how widespread he got. Male barristas with manbuns and skinny jeans across the country discuss Nietzsche inbetween big gulps of each other’s tiny cocks. If you hit the uvula, it’s fifty points.

Don’t take life advice from someone who died crying in the street over a horse in the middle of a grand mal psychotic episode.

When a philosophy manages to inspire both literal Nazis and Antifa, that philosophy really should be called into question. I get the impression that he's an edgy boi trying to get a rise out of the system he lived in at the time and that was it.

I have a similar issue, kinda.

Philosophy is something I sometimes indulge in but I usually find it boring, because it often feels like I'm reading some random blogger from before blogging was a thing. Literally I find myself wondering why I'm listening to this random guy with no qualifications who just decided to diarrhea their thought process all over a piece of paper versus that one.

I mean, at least if I come to KF and ask you guys for advice raising a puppy, that's useful to me. Big existential thoughts about the universe and life itself are only fun for an episode of Star Trek.

It's easy to forget--since Humanities departments suffers from an inferiority complex with the Natural Sciences--that old philosophers were Mathematicians or some other kind of Renaissance Man kind of person. Descartes invented the Cartesian graph, Kant came up with the Nebular hypothesis, Pascal invented a mechanical calculator when the rest of the world was using the abacus. So, yes, they were blogging when they were writing about rhetoric, but they were geniuses making observations about people just like they did with mathematics, and the big stuff that we think of now is because of the abstract thoughts they had in creating sci fi concepts in the first place.

I don't know if this would count but I loathe most commentators on the American right. The most unempathetic and uncompassionate people on the planet it seems. They claim to stand against everything the modern left yet many of them are just narrow minded and dogmatic as they are. No tolerance for any views that deviate from theirs.

Your average Right wing American copied his homework from Ayn Rand, poorly. While the government does take a lot more than it should from its citizens without actual consent, their selfishness makes them into grifters and none of them care about the concept of the public good. By turning away from Christianity, they became the conservatives we see today, and thus lose to the Left who do provide, using government grants and loans, for the public good.