GREATEST PHILOSOPHER

[Gilly]

Me.

[Wynch]

Foucault

[Mediator Kam]

I was in the bathroom yesterday yelling at the mirror "I TAKE IT YOU HAVEN'T READ YOUR BASIC KANT!"

No kidding.

[Ezra]

Not a big fan of Eastern philosophy I take it.

I was considering sticking Chuang Tse and Lao Tse in there. But I wasn't seeing them as "real" philosophers.

Thats not philosophy thats "barbarian mysticism" thankyouverymuch.

Yep.

It was either him or Hume for me.

Hume is brilliant.

But that list could be bigger.

True. But I was getting bored.

[Christy B]

Foucault

Ya. I like him too. Too bad his isn't on the LIST! Simone de Beauvior isn't on the list either, which I think should be noted.

[Creepy-bg]

I vote for Fonzie or Mr. C.

[idolatrie]

Foucault

My exact thought when reading the poll, down to the

Also Ez, minus points for your lack of the ladies. And post-structuralists. But that's just my bias showing. I'm sorry, I can't vote, I don't agree with the terms of engagement.

[munenori2]

That makes me think of Virginia Woolf and something of hers I read (A Room of One's Own, I think?). She would be up there on my list for that alone.

But, damn, I really don't have a clue who Foucault is. Maybe I should look him up sometime.

[Wynch]

That makes me think of Virginia Woolf and something of hers I read (A Room of One's Own, I think?). She would be up there on my list for that alone.

But, damn, I really don't have a clue who Foucault is. Maybe I should look him up sometime.

o.o

What. The. Fuck. Whatthefuck. Knowledge is power? Yes? No? Maybe? *BRAIN IMPLODES*

You and me, we're going to have to have a talk, Mister.

Also, I would like to note that there are something like 4 people voting for Foucault who isn't even on the list.

[Ezra]

de Beauvoir is a good start. Irigaray, Cixous, Kristeva, Butler, Wollstonecraft are the ones I've read and consider myself familiar with.

I've never even heard of any of those. They're not mainstream philosophers, are they? They're even less well-known than philosophers such as Carnap, Putnam, Kuhn, Quine and Frege. They probably rank along side philosophers like Block, Fodor, Jackson and Kripke.

Did you list Kierkegaard..? And Heidegger, with his overly thick sentences.

Heidegger's there. I considered Kierkegaard.

Try Julia Kristeva for a female post-structuralist philosopher.

Also, you're missing a lot of people there! What about Althusser, Lacan, Todorov, Barthes etc etc etc. Sure, with structuralism and post-structuralism, you're moving ever more away from strict 'philosophy' toward a blending with other 'schools' or 'disciplines', which is why I prefer using the broader category of theorists.

But this is about the greatest philosopher - not the greatest theorist. Otherwise the list would be epic.

But my favourite is and most likely always will be Foucault. I think I even mentioned him my type thread, as though adoring him would somehow help me discover my type.

I did consider him as well, but didn't think he was as prominent as some of the others.

What about Mr Miyagi (Karate Kid movie)?

Fuck him. He's overrated.

[Wynch]

I did consider him as well, but didn't think he was as prominent as some of the others.

Apparently he is since he has the most votes thus far

[Ezra]

My exact thought when reading the poll, down to the

Also Ez, minus points for your lack of the ladies. And post-structuralists. But that's just my bias showing. I'm sorry, I can't vote, I don't agree with the terms of engagement.

There are no female philosophers.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NO HE DI'UUUUUUUUUUUN'T!!!!!!!!!11

To be honest, the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Simone de Beauvoir.

ETA: Ayn Rand! She is brilliant. She was up there all along.

[idolatrie]

There are no female philosophers.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NO HE DI'UUUUUUUUUUUN'T!!!!!!!!!11

To be honest, the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Simone de Beauvoir.

ETA: Ayn Rand! She is brilliant. She was up there all along.

de Beauvoir is a good start. Irigaray, Cixous, Kristeva, Butler, Wollstonecraft are the ones I've read and consider myself familiar with.

[JuJu]

Did you list Kierkegaard..? And Heidegger, with his overly thick sentences.

I'd pick Simone de Beauvoir... The ethics of ambiguity is probably my favorite book of this ilk.

(I wouldn't mind living like Jean-Jacques though... Except, you know, perhaps I'd be slightly better to my family... Perhaps and slightly.)

[unefille]

Try Julia Kristeva for a female post-structuralist philosopher.

Also, you're missing a lot of people there! What about Althusser, Lacan, Todorov, Barthes etc etc etc. Sure, with structuralism and post-structuralism, you're moving ever more away from strict 'philosophy' toward a blending with other 'schools' or 'disciplines', which is why I prefer using the broader category of theorists.

But my favourite is and most likely always will be Foucault. I think I even mentioned him my type thread, as though adoring him would somehow help me discover my type.

[FDG]

Wittgenstein was the most genial, especially in his paradoxical conclusion in regard to the study of philosophy.

[Socionics Is A Cult]

Wittgenstein was the most genial, especially in his paradoxical conclusion in regard to the study of philosophy.

I thought he was rather arrogant.

[crazedrat]

even richard nixon has got soul ... dadadadaderrrrr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
wittgenstein won my vote

[Logos]

The question is in regards to the greatest philosopher and not necessarily about one's favorite philosopher (sorry Spinoza :frown, so I voted for Kant. Why Kant? The birth of modern philosophy was divided into two main camps: rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz) and the empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, Hume). Kant argued against and reconciled both while also creating his own original ideas. While I am not a fan of the German idealism that followed Kant, he cannot be held responsible for the bad philosophers that followed. Modern philosophy (secular and religious) lives in his philosophical wake. There is no return to Pre-Kantian philosophy; he changed the nature of the philosophical framework.