Who is your favorite philosopher, why? - Diogenes? Descartes? Plato? Hume? Kant?

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I do love a cynic. Diogenes is who I am feeling this morning.
I really like the story of him with Alexander the Great- "It was in Corinth that a meeting between Alexander the Great and Diogenes is supposed to have taken place.[33] These stories may be apocryphal. The accounts of Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius recount that they exchanged only a few words: while Diogenes was relaxing in the morning sunlight, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him. Diogenes replied, "Yes, stand out of my sunlight." Alexander then declared, "If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes." "If I were not Diogenes, I would still wish to be Diogenes," Diogenes replied.[5][6][7] In another account of the conversation, Alexander found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave."[34]
 
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Unironically; Plato, Immanuel Kant, and St. Thomas Aquinas are my top 3

EDIT: Plato for basically setting up the foundation of philosophy and logic known as "Metaphysics" as we know it today
Immanuel Kant for his based "Ought Implies Can/Must" (I was taught the quote was "Ought implies must" when I took PHI-101 in college)
St. Thomas Aquinas for his relevant wisdom on how religion/spirituality can be applied to real life concepts, and also for shattering the illusion of cultural relativism with his "Nature of God" literature
 
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Slavoj Zizek - The Sublime Object of Ideology

My favourite Coke, diet and caffeine free because you really get nothing lol

 
George Carlin

his dissection of the english language and how our thought processes work is not only quite eye opening, but always a joy to listen to or read. if you have never read any of his books full of his ramblings, i recommend them. i believe they are still on youtube, narrated by the man himself. RIP king.
 
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David Hume is respected for his epistemology. During a time when philosophical schools were debating whether virtuous living was intrinsic or artificial, Hume created a blend between the two positions that influenced later thinkers. His writings on the public's relationship to governance is similarly a moderate position between obedience to authority and questioning higher powers.

Ibn Khaldun is a criminally underrated Arab philosopher who established early sociology and economics. His writings on society were immensely impactful to the Arab world and much of Mediterranean Europe, even influencing Machiavelli's writings. The way he writes about society is very useful for understanding the way early civilizations conceived of time non-linearly. To us it seems strange, but he would describe history as a repeating Epoch: A tribe establishes themselves as the rulers and bring peace, their descendants become weakened by interest in art, culture, etc, then the generation after that gets overthrown by the next battle-hardened group that suffered through the misgovernance. When your entire history is the same repeating factors, and for most of the world it was that way until hundreds of years later, it's easy to see why you'd assume it's baked into the system
 
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Paris Hilton

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

I don't really think, I just walk.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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I wish she'd been at her peak now when Incels are more mainstream a thing.
 
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Looking at my bookcase I see Frédéric Bastiat, Georges Sorel, Alexis de Tocqueville, Carl Jung, Enoch Powell, Oswald Spengler, E. Michael Jones, Thomas Jefferson, George Lincoln Rockwell, Theodore Kaczynski, Patrick Buchanan, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Mikhaïl Bakounine and the Greeks. To answer the original question I would probably stick with Tocqueville considering his criticisms of an American-driven global society remain accurate.
 
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