Jabba
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Post by Jabba on Dec 2, 2004 18:44:14 GMT -5
Peter David Albert Singer. We even have the same birthday! ;D
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Post by Human on Feb 9, 2005 8:37:35 GMT -5
first and foremost Marcus Aurelius.
His Meditations are in my opinion the best ever book written about human condition.
René Descartes is a very good one too.
Blaise Pascal, a free thinker christian mathematician, is also a must read.
Leibniz is interesting.
And all the ancient Greeks fascinating...
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Post by Human on Feb 9, 2005 8:45:34 GMT -5
by the way i find Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche total
bulshit.
Nietzsche, at least, was intelligible. Though his moral theories and general conception of the World are something to be deplored, in my view...
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Post by hansel on Feb 9, 2005 20:41:52 GMT -5
Empedocles and Epicuros
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Hallam
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Post by Hallam on Feb 9, 2005 21:52:10 GMT -5
ancient overall, presocratics, Chuang Tzu, Aristotle.
Ancient ethics: Confucius
Modern: Hume, Nietzsche, Mill
and many more
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Post by Crimson Guard on Feb 22, 2005 10:35:13 GMT -5
I would choose 2 Sicilians, 2 of the very first of their kind, Gorgias of Lentini and Empedocles.
Cicero said that rhetoric was born in Sicily and Aristotle said that Empedocles was the inventer of rhetoric & Bertrand Russel said that Empedocles was the father of philosophy in the West.
but as far as Comtempory,I would go with Gentile and Machiavelli.
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Post by visigodo on Feb 22, 2005 10:53:47 GMT -5
How about a practical philosopher? I like guys who talk about things you could apply to real world situations; like Adam Smith, or Friedrich Hayek.
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Post by Fleurs on Feb 27, 2005 19:32:58 GMT -5
I agree with everything Epicuros says, I think his philosophy is the secret of living a better life.
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