Which philosopher is best, just from a literary standpoint? "Which philosopher has the most beautiful prose"?
Kierkegaard
>>7618904
He's not on the list, and is a faggot literarian anyways. He is only a philosopher to the extent that any other person on this list is a "philosopher", what a fucking faggot.
>>7618899
Plato
>>7618940
Plato: The most useless of dialectical speculators,a coward before reality. t. Nietzsche, the most unbridled platonist in the history of western philosophy according to Heidegger.
>>7618899
>Pest Prose Priter
fluellen pls go
>>7618995
you're noticed it
Stirner
>>7619107
Stirner is not on the list and is not as good as Nietzsche anyways.
>>7618940
I agree. Though I relate his greatness more to a certain dramatic quality rather than prose.
Nietzsche, Rousseau, Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer have the best prose
Aristotle the worst
marx
not necessarily the prose but from a literary standpoint he's great
>>7619122
>Aristotle the worst
Most of Aristotle's extant writings are transcribed lectures. His earlier writings, his dialogues, have been largely lost to history.
Tao Lin
>>7619131
Aristotle as in what WE can read. We can only read what's left of him. None of his extant writings are good from a literary standpoint. Therefore, Aristotle is bad.
I dunno who has the best but Hegel was a fucking garbage writer
Stirner is the only one I know who' funny and dead serious at once
>>7618899
Nietzsche has no competition in this regard.
Nietzsche followed by Schopenhauer.
>>7619474
Try Cioran m8.
He's like Nietz. V. 2.
>>7619474
Pessoa is the undisputed prose king and he counts as primarily a philosopher in my book, he just catered his "poetry" to it and was a little obscure about it because that's what his philosophy calls for.
>>7618899
But since you fags won't agree 'til someone else famous tells you it's okay, lets just go.
Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Plato, Kierkegaard, Russell.
Y'all niggers know the only answer is Plato? His artistry blows all those other chumps out of the water. He's nigh-Shakespearean when it comes to subtly drawing a character, suggesting without spelling out hidden rhetorical currents eddying beneath the more mundane dialectical to-and-fro on the surface.
You could spend a lifetime reading his dialogues again and again.
Neitzche comes close for his passion and aphorism, but Plato is the better artist.
>>7619528
>Pessoa is the undisputed prose king and he counts as primarily a philosopher in my book,
>I don't want to get out of bed, ever
>I want to sleep forever
>Everything is tedious
Tell me how he's a philosopher.
I adore the Book of Disquiet, but calling it philosophy is quite a stretch.
>>7619547
It's hard to say, we know he read the philosophy canon and offered some unique critique on everyone which you can pick up hints of in Disquiet.
Where he is obviously new and significant in philosophy? I don't know exactly, it may just be is trying for an obscure attempt at psychological warfare but I feel there is more to his work than the obvious nothingness it seems to promote, almost like it's slow and absurd contradiction that has most power over our beliefs so long as it goes undetected.
Wittgenstein imo.
The Dialectic of Enlightenment by Horkheimer and Adorno was really well written too tho.
>>7618899
who are the three between Russell and Foucault?
Russell. Duh.
>>7618899
montaigne...infinitely readable and applicable to daily life.
>>7618911
Off-topic, but related to the picture. Should I start with Michel de Montaigne if I'm going to start reading essays?
>>7620458
You don't need to read everything chronologically.
>>7620458
Yes.
I'd say Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer is eloquent but not to the point of obfuscating his thinking. Borges called his writings, "passionate but lucid", and I think that characterizes him pretty well.
>>7619655
>the philosophy canon
>unique critique
>I don't know exactly
yes
>>7618899
nietzsche
