Whom do you think is the greatest philosopher of all times?

Gandhi and King weren’t philosophers. You might want to define your terms.

Dylan. I dunno birdie. You’ll have a tough time defending that one. It’s a sticky business labeling who is or is not a philosopher. Even the orange man pimps a philosophy.

Bill Waterson. Some of his strips are pretty cynical. And as we all know, one’s dinner is always out for one’s ass.

Descartes…Cogito, ergo sum says it all.

Woody Allen, who said…
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon”
and
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”

If those aren’t solid pieces of philosophy I don’t know what is.

@stanleybmanley Dylan

Dylan Thomas?

Epicurus with his brilliant idea of hedonism. I still believe that hedonism is the way for human to be happy, or at least it is for me.

@Strauss I meant Bob, but I saw the possible confusion the moment it printed out. I like the stoics.

All of them.

There isn’t one. Plato said some good and important stuff, but then so did Aristotle, and Maimonides, and even Weisel.

I think life is made richer by taking the relevant philosophies from a variety of people, not restricting yourself to just one.

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I’m sorry, I neglected one philosopher in my list above.

His name is, of course, @ucme .

UCME stands for “Universal Cogitation on the Meaning of Everything”. If that isn’t philosophy, I don’t know what is!!

Grasshopper speak with forked tongue

George Carlin

Karl Popper.

Tom Waits.

@zenvelo I like your answer

Then give him his ga.

Plenty of those to go around @stanleybmanly I got interrupted.

Pre-enlightenment philosophers are interesting to study, but have no bearing on the current state of philosophical thought.

Sartre
Kierkegaard
Hegel
Kant

Descartes has to be among the greatest philosophers. He broached the question about what it means to be have consciousness, and his answer and interpretations of that answer are still of great interest. One way of interpreting Descartes is to say that the ability to question, to negate is a necessary component of consciousness. Another interpretation would be that self-reference is a necessary component of consciousness. There is a recent book, The Recursive Mind that extends this idea to says the key to human intelligence is the extent to which we are able to speak of things that reference themselves.

^^Gets it

Let’s ask Bruce!

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya ‘bout the turning of the wrist,
Socrates himself was permanently pissed…
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, with half a pint of shandy was
particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day,
Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, “I drink therefore I am.”
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed._