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Which one is your favorite philosopher?
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Gilles Deleuze
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cumdump
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yes
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spinoza
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Fyodor dostoevsky
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Socrates
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Jordan Peterson
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Jesus of Nazareth
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Jesus
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Epictetus
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Bertrand Russell
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Julius Evola
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Ibn Sina
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Simone Weil
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Aristotle
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Carl Jung
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Buddha
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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wine
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Slavoj Zizek
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Charles Darwin
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Ayn Rand
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Nicholas Sparks
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Kosov
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Serb
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Hypatia
Euclid
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Sigmund Freud
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Alfred Whitehead
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Maimonides
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William James
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Thomas Hobbes
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Francis Bacon
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Alan Watts
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Edmund Husserl
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Judith Butler
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Jacques Derrida
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John Dewey
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Henri Bergson
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Rene Guenon
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George Berkeley
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Heraclitus
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Teilhard de Chardin
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Democritus
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Albert Einstein
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Rudolf Carnap
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Paul Preciado
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Max Stirner
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Joseph Campbell
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Gottfried Leibniz
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Parmenides
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George Santayana
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Voltaire
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Jeremy Bentham
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Lucretius
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B. F. Skinner
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Niccoló Machiavelli
Karl Popper
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Aristotle, Simone de Beauvoir, Plato, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Søren Kierkegaard, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Augustine of Hippo, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, René Descartes, José Ortega y Gasset, Thomas Aquinas, Olavo de Carvalho, G.K. Chesterton, Immanuel Kant, Roger Scruton, Mário Ferreira dos Santos, Marcus Aurelius, David Hume, Michael Oakeshott, Eric Voegelin, Albert Camus
Aristotle, Simone de Beauvoir, Plato, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Søren Kierkegaard, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Augustine of Hippo, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, René Descartes, José Ortega y Gasset, Thomas Aquinas, Olavo de Carvalho, G.K. Chesterton, Immanuel Kant, Roger Scruton, Mário Ferreira dos Santos, Marcus Aurelius, David Hume, Michael Oakeshott, Eric Voegelin, Albert Camus
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I absolutely need to get fed up first to decide. Can someone suggest me an entrance to read in philosophey?
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ROUH wrote: "I absolutely need to get fed up first to decide. Can someone suggest me an entrance to read in philosophey?"Marcus Aurelius
Rouh | رُوُح wrote: "I absolutely need to get fed up first to decide. Can someone suggest me an entrance to read in philosophey?"I think "Apology of Socrates" is a good one to start, specially if you never read anything about philosophy yet.
Also, you could read a book about the history of philosophy just to get acquainted to the most known thinkers throughout the centuries.
Ruan wrote: "Rouh | رُوُح wrote: "I absolutely need to get fed up first to decide. Can someone suggest me an entrance to read in philosophey?"I think "Apology of Socrates" is a good one to start, specially i..."
~☆~Autumn♥♥☔ wrote: "ROUH wrote: "I absolutely need to get fed up first to decide. Can someone suggest me an entrance to read in philosophey?"
Marcus Aurelius"
Thank you so much! I'll head for it ASAP!
does anyone have any recommendations for starting to get into these kind of books?
mia wrote: "does anyone have any recommendations for starting to get into these kind of books?"First, I suggest, don't try to read a philosopher just because it is famous, instead, seek books which the main themes interests you. So, if you like art, start with "Beauty" by Roger Scruton, if you are interested in politics, maybe "The Prince" by Machiavelli will be a good one to go, or, if you like relligion, "Confessions" by Saint Augustine is the one to start, etc.
Ruan wrote: "mia wrote: "does anyone have any recommendations for starting to get into these kind of books?"First, I suggest, don't try to read a philosopher just because it is famous, instead, seek books whi..."
thank you, i appreciate it!!
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca would be my best suggestion.Of the Authors you have listed, I vote for Marcus Aurelius. Start with Meditations.
That's a great set of options you came up with. I'm happy to see Marcus Aurelius isn't too far down the results list.
Daniel wrote: "That's a great set of options you came up with. I'm happy to see Marcus Aurelius isn't too far down the results list."Thanks!
Camus is one of the greats, but I'd choose Nietzsche.
lol nietzsche is so pretentious thinking hes so smart and better than everyone else
John Locke is missing. He is one of the most influential philosophers on political ph., moral ph., epistemology. You can't have such a list without him.
Rouh || رُوح wrote: "I absolutely need to get fed up first to decide. Can someone suggest me an entrance to read in philosophey?"I started with Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
I'd actually start by reading a general intro to philosophy that will help you understand what the main ones here have to say and how it affected (Western) thought. Unfortunately most philosophers in those books are white European men but it's a start. (Ayn Rand is usually the only female and I can't stand her.) My favorite of that list is either David Hume or John Stuart Mill.I haven't even heard of some of these and I have degrees in Philosophy and Religion and Culture. I think some of these are philosophers in the way that most award winning writers and singers, etc. are philosophers rather than people who are labeled as such. It doesn't make what they have to say any less valid, but you won't learn "philosophy" from them in a way to talk about it with authority, not that that matters either.
Joseph Campbell is amazing for the general public but he is deprecated by religious scholars because a lot what he talks about is conjecture made without proof and stuff that is just plain wrong. It's better to read a book by Huston Smith who should be on this list, IMHO.
I hope I don't sound pretentious. I'm just trying to help with people wanting to learn traditional philosophy.
I think you also should include Confucius and the other names in bold above.
Thanks for doing this list!
Ruan wrote: "mia wrote: "does anyone have any recommendations for starting to get into these kind of books?""First, I suggest, don't try to read a philosopher just because it is famous, instead, seek books which the main themes interests you. So, if you like art, start with "Beauty" by Roger Scruton, if you are interested in politics, maybe "The Prince" by Machiavelli will be a good one to go, or, if you like relligion, "Confessions" by Saint Augustine is the one to start, etc."
For the part about Machiavelli, consider reading a more neutral text to begin. Otherwise, I completely agree that everybody's philosophy journey should be unique to their own interests and questions about life.
