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

I have a personal conspiracy theory that Diogenes wasn't actually real and was just a joke philosophers in Greece used to talk about as a way of making a point or just taking the piss. Basically an Ancient Mediterranean Kilroy. It makes sense to me anyway.
Positron said:
We have a thread on Deep Thoughts but I guess Nietzsche was right about Eternal Return?

BTW this is its sister thread.
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Eternal return would explain déjà vu and similar high strangeness. It's a possibility, and a simultaneously unnerving and comforting one.

As for my favorite: Pythagoras, as well as both classical and modern Pythagoreans in general. 284
 
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I know people are shitposting, but if you're not, a philosopher is not "someone who made some good points." Calling George Carlin a philosopher is like calling Doctor Fauci a scientist.
Oliveoil said:
Locke obviously.
EVERYONE should read Locke.
<chuckles smugly>
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Did you know he invented England?
 
Sped Xing said:
I know people are shitposting, but if you're not, a philosopher is not "someone who made some good points." Calling George Carlin a philosopher is like calling Doctor Fauci a scientist.

Did you know he invented England?
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I need more Dopamine.
 
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John Stuart Mill. On Liberty is a pretty good way to go all things considered.
 
For me, it’s Voltaire. All the best bits of philosophy and all the best bits of wit.
Oh, and Schopenhauer was right about women.
 
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I do love a cynic
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me too, in fact, i'm a optimistic cynic. while i do believe virtue and morality is the only good and that people are driven by self-interest, i'm also optimistic enough to believe that not everyone is driven by self-interest. it's just the majority of them are.
 
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Seneca and Epicteus are really great traditional philosophers who can easily be applied to modern standards.

Difference is that most people don't have standards these days.
Same thing with Schopenhauer, too.
 
I liked the Hobo overall.
The Alexander-Encounter is overrated.
First thing that would pop into everyone's head and a waste of a opportunity.
It also seems like bad fanfic, which means its probably fake and i can just ignore it.
The chicken story was pretty funny.
So absurd.
A lot of the other greeks were too far up their own arse for my tastes.
Fuck them.
Also all of the french ones.
Live a frog, burn in death.
 
Philosophy is for massive wankers.

Thomas Kuhn is extremely important and also has relatively little mass appeal because he wrote about shit that really mattered, launched the philosophy of science field. Had extremely important points to make about how science is a product of human culture and there are elements of faith in it. His theory of scientific revolutions is something I wish was a lot more well-known in the general public.

Hegel, based on my very shallow understanding of it, had a notion of consciousness that was similar to mine.

Jefferson was already somewhat outdated in his ambitions for society but I think he had the best view of what a healthy country looks like.
 
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If I have to give out a name a gunpoint, I would say Seneca the Younger.
It's clearly not the most interesting nor intellectual of philosophers, but as I get older I find myself seeking more applied philosophy than theoretical philosophy. I apply more teachings of Seneca in my daily life than I do Nietzsche's, if you see what I mean.
 
Nietzsche, Phil101 scrublord tier though that may sound...at least as far as what he actually wrote, not all the bad interpretations of what he wrote. Granted he's awful for policy suggestions based on a surface reading, but putting policy suggestion issues aside: top tier in my book, and an interesting read if nothing else.

I find myself using Kant and Plato as a lens to explain or muddle through things a lot since both of them created concepts and rulesets which are useful for that, but I wouldn't rate either of them as favorites.
 
Schopenhaur's mother because she literally fucking demolished him in one letter and by that logic she took a massive dump on Nietzche. All philosophy must be viewed partially upon how the person lived their life and what struggles they underwent. Schopenhaur and Nietzche were incel losers, but Nietzche had a point in that you can't call yourself good without restraining your capacity for evil. Impotent evil is a disgusting thing.
 
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