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

[Queen Elizabeth II]

Saint Augustine he's such a whiney self-loathing bore and his idea's are so contradictory they initiated a continent wide religious civil war when the paradox's hit critical mass.

It would either be him, or Aristotle for me.

Not because so much of what he wrote, for his time his ideas weren't actually that far out there. But for the sheer level of insane knuckle-bone throwing, tarot-card flipping batshit insane religious fucktards who have been endlessly licking his arse since to justify their magic voodoo-esque opinions ever since I reserve a special level of spite for him.

 

[Spunt]

A few I dislike:

Rene Descartes: When 1st year undergrads can rip your "logic" to shreds before they've barely got their feet under the desk, your theories need some work.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: All this "feels over reals" postmodernist bullshit is pretty much his fault.
Jean-Jaques Rousseau: The father of patronising paternalist socialism. He's pretty much the reason France and Belgium are borderline failed states.

One I loathe:

Immanuel Kant:

Interesting epistemology, but get him onto ethics or politics and his brain seems to have a seizure. The fact he was a literal autist might have something to do with why his ideas fall apart once they involve actual people. He's also painfully difficult and boring to read. He'll write sentences over two pages long, refuse to use examples or metaphors, speaking entirely in the abstract, and make up at least one word per page and refuse to tell you what it means. German philosophy students prefer to read him in English because at least that way all the verbs don't pile up at the end of each massive sentence like a trainwreck and you don't have to pick over the last two pages trying to work out what nouns they apply to.

This has resulted in centuries of subsequent philosophers spending less time arguing about whether he was right and more trying to work out what the fuck he was on about in the first place because he's so impenetrable. At least Derrida's incomprehensibility was as a direct result of his ideas, Kant just does it to be a dick.

Kant's "Categorical Imperative" may be the most autistic idea that anyone has ever had and assumes all moral actors are emotionless robots like him. And it's full of circular logic as well.

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

I’m gonna say Noam Chomsky, not sure if he counts as a philosopher but I still hate him. After the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and reports started coming in about mass killings, Chomsky was of their most ardent defenders going so far as to bully any publisher who wanted to post something negative about the KR. He chalked up the reports of genocide as either the result of US actions (despite the US having gotten the fuck out of Cambodia in 72 when the KR took over in 75) or unreliable refugee testimony. He wrote an article that outlined his denial, pinning the blame on the western media for smearing the good name of the innocent KR (which imo lead to his “western media biased” narrative but that’s just me). In said article he repeatedly praised a book written by Hildebrand and Porter as an accurate and unbiased account of what was going on. One problem, nearly all the citations in that book were from KR officials the rest iirc were from media reporters sympathetic to the KR. Somehow this expert on propaganda couldn’t see blatant propaganda right in front of his face but I’m not an intellectual like him. Another problem, Chomsky criticized Barron and Paul (two authors who wrote about the genocide) for using sources from US officials and refugees. Even after it became apparent that a genocide did indeed happen, Chomsky continued to deny it and I think he still does to this day but don’t quote me on that. Despite genocide denial being a big no no in academia, Chomsky is still praised and cited makes me mad because if any right leaning individual denied a right wing genocide they’d be blacklisted from every job in existence.

 

[Emperor Julian]

It would either be him, or Aristotle for me.

Not because so much of what he wrote, for his time his ideas weren't actually that far out there. But for the sheer level of insane knuckle-bone throwing, tarot-card throwing batshit insane religious fucktards who have been endlessly licking his arse since to justify their magic voodoo-esque opinions ever since I reserve a special level of spite for him.

I'm not sure which one is worse one is pulling it straight from his arse the other is desperatly trying to say greek myths are bullshit but revalations and exodus are legit without a hint of self-awareness.

 

[Seventh Star]

This will be a blanket statement since I have quite a few personal issues with philosophy the way its taught in school/universities by communist/progressive teacher types, but fuck absolutely every one of those post modern, weed smoking, slav philosophers that come from test tubes. Big bug eyes, beard, shitty hair, greek nose, hard to pronounce names (relatively). It's hard to describe them since I'm an idiot, but they all meet a stereotype that you only start to understand if you look out for it, it's hard to explain like I said. Zizek and Stajnsrajber come to mind as the foundation of this stereotype.

Also like some people said here, Socrates. Being annoying doesnt make you an intellectual or deep. It makes you annoying.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Most philosophers are shit. The few who were good were ones who didn't consider themselves philosophers and had actual professions like Polybius, Livy, Cicero, and Confucius. Hell, there are some people who aren't widely considered philosophers today but really should be due to the quality of their written works such as Sun Tzu, and Musashi Miyamoto.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Aristotles. Not because so much of what he wrote, for his time his ideas weren't actually that far out there. But for the sheer level of insane knuckle-bone throwing, tarot-card throwing batshit insane religious fucktards who have been endlessly licking his arse since to justify their magic voodoo-esque opinions ever since I reserve a special level of spite for him

What surprised me about reading the classics is that when I read aristotles, it immediately gave me useful tools in thinking about things that were better than I had before. And that for someone who lived so long ago. I will always regard him with some reverence for that.

 

[Gun Safety]

Some people earlier in this thread have said it and well, they were right, it's Diogenes. Just as other people have pointed out. People tend to like Diogenes if they're libertarians like Count Dankula who admire autistic retards while living in sane non-retarded places.

But the philosopher I most dislike who hasn't been mentioned in this thread is Freud. Reading future of an illusion is utter cringe. I know he's most known for his psychological work but his prescriptions for society are so cringe. It's a real short book and it's been years since I read it but what most sticks out in my mind as wrong was the idea that women should be given sexual education much younger (mind you this was written in the 1920's or 1930's) and that teaching young women about sex would make them more mature and responsible. lol

 

[Gigantic Faggot]

Not sure if it counts as philosophy but (((Franz Boas))) single handedly turned American anthropology into the "anti-racist" (anti-white) pseudoscience shitshow that it is today.

http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/chap2.pdf

I've never understood how this quack (the idiotic work of him and his disciples is nothing but cherry picking and lies) was able to do it. Perhaps @Syaoran Li has more information.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Not sure if it counts as philosophy but (((Franz Boas))) single handedly turned American anthropology into the "anti-racist" (anti-white) pseudoscience shitshow that it is today.

http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/chap2.pdf

I've never understood how this quack (the idiotic work of him and his disciples is nothing but cherry picking and lies) was able to do it. Perhaps @Syaoran Li has more information.

Who the fuck are you talking about and why the fuck would I know nor care about it?

I honestly don't even know what you're going on about or why I'd even have information about it.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Said it in another thread but the School of Life is upper middle class douchebag school of thought:

 

[Emperor Julian]

Some people earlier in this thread have said it and well, they were right, it's Diogenes. Just as other people have pointed out. People tend to like Diogenes if they're libertarians like Count Dankula who admire autistic retards while living in sane non-retarded places.

While I don't hate him, Diogenes is crimminally overated and considering his antics may have just been mentally ill or just an actual lolcow rationlizing his tendancy to masturbate in public.

 

[Kosher Dill]

While I don't hate him, Diogenes is crimminally overated and considering his antics may have just been mentally ill or just an actual lolcow rationlizing his tendancy to masturbate in public.

It's also unknown how much of all those antics are just "Albert Einstein stories" from antiquity. We don't even have a single word written by Diogenes himself, but subsequent Greek philosophers saw something in him.

 

[Pomniman]

Musashi Miyamoto

Musashi was a filthy hobo and a con artist who wrote fanfics about himself; the samurai equivalent of Chris-chan, really.

 

[Seventh Star]

Fuck spinoza

Why though? I only got passing mentions to him in school.

 

[Syaoran Li]

If I were to write a list of the worst philosophers and idealogues, these would be my Top 20 picks.

1. Karl Marx
2. Ayn Rand
3. Augustine of Hippo
4. Cotton Mather
5. Michael Foucault
6. John Calvin
7. Robin D'Angelo
8. Malcolm X
9. Peter Kropotkin
10. Mikhail Bakunin
11. Germaine Greer
12. Moses Maimondes
13. Jean Jacques Rosseau
14. Mao Zedong
15. Leon Trotsky
16. Jean-Paul Sartre
17. W.E.B. DuBois
18. Andrea Dworkin
19. Houston Stewart Chamberlain
20. Slavoj Zizek

 

[SheerHeartAttack]

If I were to write a list of the worst philosophers and idealogues, these would be my Top 20 picks.

1. Karl Marx
2. Ayn Rand
3. Augustine of Hippo
4. Cotton Mather
5. Michael Foucault
6. John Calvin
7. Robin D'Angelo
8. Malcolm X
9. Peter Kropotkin
10. Mikhail Bakunin
11. Germaine Greer
12. Moses Maimondes
13. Jean Jacques Rosseau
14. Mao Zedong
15. Leon Trotsky
16. Jean-Paul Sartre
17. W.E.B. DuBois
18. Andrea Dworkin
19. Houston Stewart Chamberlain
20. Slavoj Zizek

>W.E.B DuBois
No kidding, I had to read up on this dude for the past few months, and the fact he became a fucking tankie toward the end of his life hit me like a ton of bricks.

 

[mr.moon1488]

If I were to write a list of the worst philosophers and idealogues, these would be my Top 20 picks.

1. Karl Marx
2. Ayn Rand
3. Augustine of Hippo
4. Cotton Mather
5. Michael Foucault
6. John Calvin
7. Robin D'Angelo
8. Malcolm X
9. Peter Kropotkin
10. Mikhail Bakunin
11. Germaine Greer
12. Moses Maimondes
13. Jean Jacques Rosseau
14. Mao Zedong
15. Leon Trotsky
16. Jean-Paul Sartre
17. W.E.B. DuBois
18. Andrea Dworkin
19. Houston Stewart Chamberlain
20. Slavoj Zizek

Augustine was hyper overrated. King Louis the 9th was much better.

 

[JambledUpWords]

>W.E.B DuBois
No kidding, I had to read up on this dude for the past few months, and the fact he became a fucking tankie toward the end of his life hit me like a ton of bricks.

I read some of W.E.B DuBois for a school assignment. DuBois was a Marxist, but he critiqued Marx for not considering race in his theories. Overall, reading a bit about him actually helps make sense of current day easier, seeing as many academics refer to him. That said, I still don’t care for his philosophy at all, seeing as it helped create the cancer that is Critical Race Theory today. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kimberlé Chrenshaw was directly influenced through his work.

On that note, I really don’t like Kimberlé Chrenshaw either, seeing as her intersectionality ideas have festered into the identity politics we know of today. Her ideas fall apart easily as well once you look outside the United States, seeing as race and gender to her are viewed in a vacuum of oppressed versus oppressor.

 

[Seventh Star]

I read some of W.E.B DuBois for a school assignment. DuBois was a Marxist, but he critiqued Marx for not considering race in his theories. Overall, reading a bit about him actually helps make sense of current day easier, seeing as many academics refer to him. That said, I still don’t care for his philosophy at all, seeing as it helped create the cancer that is Critical Race Theory today. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kimberlé Chrenshaw was directly influenced through his work.

On that note, I really don’t like Kimberlé Chrenshaw either, seeing as her intersectionality ideas have festered into the identity politics we know of today. Her ideas fall apart easily as well once you look outside the United States, seeing as race and gender to her are viewed in a vacuum of oppressed versus oppressor.

I know a lot of philosophers are products of the context they found themselves in so it's not restricted to any one particular group of people, but how often do you think American philosophers are amerocentric like that?