Who are your favorite philosophers?

[DimeBagJohnny]

^Adyashanti is great. Which Krishnamurti are you referring to? Jiddu or U.G.?

 

[psynce of sound]

Alan Watts and Jean Baudrillard. Possibly Nietzsche and Plato to some degree.

 

[sigmond]

UG Krishnamurti [ though UG probably would not want me calling him a philospher. ]

thanks for mentioning this. for some reason i always forget the name of "the other krishnamurti". i was thinking about how often humans are simply biological machines who can only respond to a specialized code if it is written in the same language. picture yourself as a walking antenna connected to an 'environmental proccessor' quite often this how you're behaving in the world. (i don't believe humans are solely biological machines - yet)

What do you guys think of Alain De Botton?

As much as i like this guy i wouldn't consider him a philosopher. he is more just a quality teacher of philosophy; which is something people sometimes say about Bertrand Russell who is one of my favorites.

leaving out Buddha, J.C, Confucius, few others; Epicurus - Montaigne - Schopenhauer - Nietzsche - Husserl - Heidegger - Sartre - Russell - William James - Machiavelli - Rousseau - Marx - Rawls. J. Krisnamurti, Huxley, Dostoevsky, Chomsky.

if we were talking about importance id add- Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Locke, Wittgenstein. (first four either put me to sleep or make my ears bleed)

oh and that Freud guy..

 

[Nixiam]

I figured you ripped your name off of his. lol

Sigmund Freud.

 

[Ziiirp]

Euler (mathematicians are philosophers, that can express themselves formally) and Nietzsche. Explanations follow when I am able to deliver them. Next year I guess.

 

[sigmond]

I figured you ripped your name off of his. lol

and youse were wrong..

 

[Nixiam]

Sorry.