Your favourite philosophers?

Søren Kierkegaard

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."

generally. his point of view is in the flow of existentialism.

"generally. his point of view is in the flow of existentialism."

ha-ha! He is the father of it!

and not Sarte? i wasn't sure 😕

oh Kierkegaard the lover of the Danish state church, irony is that his name translates to Churchyard/Cemetery

really? i didn't know about that 😮

Churchyard! 😂

I don't like Kierkegaard - proving god, etc.

i'm gonna say that voltaire is an awesome philosopher.....just cuz....

I believe that most of us are inspired by philosophers and their views. What is your favourite philosopher and why?

I have read about this philosopher by the name of Krishnamurti. The best part of him is that he does not want to acknowledge himself as a philosopher and even rejected the world teacher award. A great guy right.

I always liked Heidegger.

My vote is for George Carlin.

dont forget philo, how could u?

I found it quite easy, not sure of the success rate of anyone else.

Sun Tzu

i would say confucious....Very wise he was.

Originally posted by Great Vengeance
Sun Tzu

hehe....INDEED!

but hopefully we do not belive in these people to much

Originally posted by Bardock42
My Philosophers are better than yours...........now that that is established who is he?

Michel Foucault argued several things which I found correlated exactly with my thinking -
First, he argued that truth is relative, it is not absolute. Truth is reached by agreement, it is a consensus formed between various parties with different, vested interests in having one particular truth accepted as the general truth. This truth therefore changes from time to time, and locality to locality.

Secondly, and linked to the first argument, Foucault argued that knowledge equals power. Having knowledge, and being regarded as having knowledge (like a professor, or an expert in a particular field) means that people are more likely to accept your opinions/arguments as the truth. Therefore, if you are regarded as having knowledge on a particular field, you have power, since people are likely to accept your truth as their truth.

Thirdly, Foucault argued that power is a relation. Power is not static, it is dynamic. If power were a “thing”, instead of a relation (like a gun or an army or something) it would be impossible to wrestle power away from somebody. To illustrate, somebody ruling a country would rule that country forever, and absolutely, if power were not a relation, and a dynamic relation at that. Because power is a relation, and relations change, however, it is possible for governments to change and topple

and some say before Confucius there was Lao-tzu writer of the Tao Te Ching........the writings are so money.

I am a fan of Kafka. Aristotle is great as is Karl Marx. Marx was awesome - his philosophy does not work in practice, but its flawless on paper.