Post your favorite philosopher.
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>>50613
Kant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaOGmyV0EYg
>>50796
this.
![Sam_Harris_01[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zRjsbq4.jpg "Sam_Harris_01[1].jpg")
>Handsome
>A genius neuroscientist
>OWNED Noam Chomsky over email
>Can empirically determine moral absolutes
>Basically really smart
>Good-looking
>Made Chomsky look like a bitch on the internet
>Doesn't even believe in God because he's a real scientist
>>50898
>kant
Pleb-tier
Anyone who isnt Michel Foucault
>>50914
>how dare you to have a different opinion!
>>51128
Good choice desu
Me.
I'm really smart
his ideas really resonate with me as a person
>>53235
>DUDE SODOMY LMAO
>>50613
I'm a Kierkegaard man myself.
>>53276
Zizek is Deleuze for plebs.
>>53418
That's what I'm talking about.
>If property is a natural, absolute, imprescriptible, and inalienable right, why, in all ages, has there been so much speculation as to its origin? — for this is one of its distinguishing characteristics. The origin of a natural right! Good God! who ever inquired into the origin of the rights of liberty, security, or equality?
>>53276
>>53922
>tfw I have no idea what this really means but it still makes me laugh
>>54049
you can just google the definition of ideology
the rest is just, pure zizek
>>54049
He's a gross person to look at and listen to. Probably the greatest meme philosopher in extant. And he is already eating from the trash can all the time.
>>54156
sounds like /lit/'s RMS
Evola
>>54125
I'm told that Marxists have a somewhat different and more specialized definition of what ideology is. And so maybe that's why he can write hundreds of pages mapping it out and dissecting it -- while the rest of us can just explain it in a sentence.
But. I've never actually read Zizek. Where is a good place to start?
>>54417
to actually understand him, Lacan and Hegel
to just kind of float along in a daze, not really understanding any of the arguments he's making and just reading to maybe spout a dictum or two of his at a dinner party (as film students do with all continental philosophers) any of his works should be fine.
>>54417
its an internet meme grandpa
he snorts coke and overuses the word ideology
Best jew is best jew
Taught me everything I know.
>>54614
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Taught me everything I know
>>50613
>Post your favorite philosopher.
>>53815
IT'S
>>54781
TWENTY
My top 5 Western philosophers:
- Boethius
- Heraclitus
- Giambattista Vico
- Jon Stewart
- Johann Georg Hamann
>>54996
lol....
>>54611
Lacan is a legit fraud. Any amount of time you spend on him is time wasted. He should be studied in the same way L Ron Hubbard is. Zizek just likes him because he (was) fashionable and provides him a framework with which to go on absurd unprovable sexualised tangents.
>>54996
I know this is ironic shitposting. But I actually really like Heraclitus.
>>54685
That movie was fucking silly. That dummy didn't even cite Aristotle's Metaphysics one time.
>>50796
based witty
>>55076
So skip Zizek?
>>55109
You don't need to skip because he's very current and captures in a retarded way, certain crystallizations of our current culture. But you should under no circumstances take him seriously.
>>55076
unfortunately to the poster interested in Zizek I completely agree with this post about Lacan. Lacan was extremely influential in french philosophical circles (he almost co-authored a book with Kojeve) where he freely borrowed concepts from philosophy to add to his own strange convoluted form of psychoanalysis. the whole of his written works (excluding his famous lectures) are found in a work called "Ecrits" which is a recent translation by Bruce Fink. The best introduction to Lacan however is through secondary sources (AVOID ZIZEK HOWEVER), or by tediously co-referencing the index in Ecrits to the basic concepts of his system and coming up a terminological lexicon based on his own usage. He literally just made shit up. He was one of the figures vigorously attacked by Alan Sokal for spouting nonsensical garbage about science and for some reason randomly appropriation concepts from mathematical topology to explain anxiety (I'm serious) Derrida at least had a mildly positive influence by dissuading the seriousness of the humanities in what is a "soft" enterprise but Lacan is legitimately L Ron Hubbard tier
>>55080
He Aiight, certainly better than Milesians and pretty ahead of his time.
Literally the best
>>54156
Read this in Zizek's voice with all the sniffs and everything
Never had a favorite but I enjoyed Hume a lot as well as Nietzsche
>inb4 tipped fedora
Bertrand Russell
>>50613
>>55694
Didn't even read his original works, but his History of Western Philosophy is dope.
: ^ )
John Searle, J L Austin or maybe Mark Wilson (only found out about him recently, ordinary language philosopher that draws lessons for the use of concepts from classical mechanics)
Please god don't let this be like /lit/ in which negative judgements are made (most of the time without really realizing it) about authors and philosophers based on their popularity/appeal to "normies". Zizek is fine and even though no one's mentioned him, (I'm sure if someone did, they'd be mocked) Camus is good too.
>>56135
Not that much into philosophy, so honest question: what concepts did Zizek develop? He's mostly known from me and the rest of the pleb as a popular philosopher. Does he actually have original works?
>>50613
Either Cicero or Schopenhauer. I go between nihilism and stoicism
>>56225
Honest answer, I've only seen his movies, I'm waiting to read him until I've tackled Deleuze. I highly enjoy his interpretations of movies though, he finds very specific themes and instead of claiming it is the director embedding deep messages in the film, he claims these can be found in the director's work because the director was a "slave" to ideologies as well, it's only natural it would appear in the art
Aristotle is really the person who got me going in philosophy. I believe its because i came from reading Plato to reading Aristotle so i had the "shock" of seeing how much bullshit Plato was throwing out.
But David Hume is a close second for me at the moment.
Alan W. Watts
>>56332
Read stuff by academic skeptics, regardless of their association with Plato, itll give you a lot of insight
>>56332
What are those you remember more vividly? The Plato bullshit pointed out by Aristotle I mean.
>>56497
>>56598
It wasn't that, when I originally started reading Aristotle I believed Plato was considered the is all be all of knowledge. In my mind Aristotle came along with the collective knowledge of everyone before him and knocked Plato off his high horse. More than that, this man is a paragon of an intellectual who I really aspire to match.
I Don't Give A Fuck: The Worldview.
>>59193
>ayn rand
>a philosopher
what's next? friedman?
>>50613
Jesus Christ. Not religious in the least, but I think he was about the best there ever was.
>Was so good at philosophy that an entire nation put his ideas about government into practice.
>Today is worshiped as the founder of a pseudo-religion, despite never claiming to be a prophet or the Son of God.
>Believed that government should lead by example, not by fear.
>Emphasized the importance of an education
Certainly the best Eastern philosopher to ever exist.
It doesn't make sense to me anymore. The problems themselves are more fascinating, rather than idol worship.
>>50613
>pic related
>>50796
>>56031
good taste
based Aldous
>>59688
>not Lao Tzu or Buddha
>>60472
Buddha was a rich cunt.
>"Oh, the world is like, really bad"
>"Oh, I know, I will seclude myself and try to block reality, instead of trying to make a better tomorrow"
Makes you realize why so many libtards join the religion.
>>54614
Half her talent came from taking the Heidegger bratwurst DESU
>>60504
>instead of trying to make a better tomorrow
?
and what would that look like exactly?
>>56422
Nice dubs, nice philosopher
For anyone who might know their handegg.
>>60523
Making a better world of itself, not just of your own. You could try to help crime (or whatever other issue), instead of making a fool of yourself and belief that everything is alright because you are at peace with yourself.
Pic and Leibniz.
Descartes has a sweet spot but is still below.
>>60563
>that Singer
Top kek 2bh lad
I like Spinoza but that's probably because of my religious beliefs.
Also Schopenhauer's a pretty cool man imo
>>50972
But he got obliterated by Chomsky. Have you even read the correspondence? Harris got slammed hard.
He taught me all I needed to know about my pessimism and antinatalism that I didn't get from Schopenhauer.
Robert Anton Wilson
Diogenes
Kierkegaard
>>63690
>Zappfe
Literally Rust Cohle: the philosopher.
>>54417
He explains his basic views and philosophy in The Parallax View
>>60653
Basically that Ideology isn't something that we people hold and practice, but that ideology can be found materialized, and works as a vessel that we pour meaning and antagonisms into. Or am I completely wrong?
>>56332
>Plato
>>64378
0/10
>>64427
I know he's not always considered a Philosopher, but I sure do. I enjoy his writing, though it is occasionally too obsessed with the minutiae of his arguments, and I just love who he was as a person.
The best you've never heard of
>>63824
>Diogenes
muh negroe
Hegel.
>>64604
I thought he was a meme and feels autistic for idolising him but shit the nigga was who I am today...
>>64634
Dialectic was his only good idea. Prove me wrong
>>61077
Taking a phenomenology class right now. Fuck Husserl and fuck his writings.
>>64813
The dialectic was his only idea, everything else was evolved from that.
>>65190
le epic beard meme philosopher.
no more b8 pls
not even gonna pretend to understand his shit
>>50613
Obviously Diogenes
>>65391
Literally accomplished nothing besides being the subject of art at one period in time.
Although he did teach me nice guys don't win.
>>60472
buddha was a cunt
laozi was a chill dude, though
Heidegger
Heraclitus, Spinoza, Nietzsche and Deleuze.
>>65024
What do you mean by this?
He's goat. I was suspicious at first, but he's so high above the others it fives vertigo. Came to him more or less by chance reading how Godel considered him the goat along with Leibniz (which I already knew).
>>53276
>his ideas really resonate with me as a person
That's because you're an uneducated pleb.
>>50613
For me it's either pic related or Nietzsche.
>>65290
>Engles
>Not a meme philosopher
>>63455
#trolled
