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What are some good non-German philosophers (besides the Greeks)?
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What are some good non-German philosophers (besides the Greeks)? Getting tired of all philosophical discussion being a circlejerk over Kant or Hegel or Schopenhauer or whomever.
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Confucius
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zniffzek
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George Santayana.
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>>7894664
>good
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Certainly not the frenchs.
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>>7894661
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Bacon
Hobbes
Locke
Berkeley
Reid
Hume
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>>7894661
Quine, Searle, Nagel, Kripke, Russell, Anscombe, Popper, Kuhn
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Read the New Science by Vico.
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>>7894661
Mario Bunge is all you need.
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>>7894719
On The Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians is also by Vico. That's what I'm reading now.
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>>7894707
Davidson, Strawson, Rawls, Tarski, Dummett, Putnam, Chomsky, Fodor, Lewis, Parfit, Williamson
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Undoubtedly Albert Camus.
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>>7894661

Richard Dawkins
Neil Degrassi Tyson
Sam Harris
Chuck Palahniuk
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>>7894661
literally nobody unless you want to read a bunch of anglo capitalists
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Thomases Aquinas and Hobbes are a lot more instructive than any Germans, whose entire philosophical tradition is an aberration.
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The answer has been in front of you the entire time.
JVD
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Emil Cioran. Good Romanian dude
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>>7894721
Sure, all you need is the king of the ad hominem and autor of the worst critique I have seen of Heidegger.

And for OP: Lukács, Derrida, Levinas, Deleuze, Foucault, Badiou, José Ortega Y Gasset, Chomsky, Merleau-Ponty, Searle, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Kierkegaard, Searle, Russel, Cioran.
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The latin Stoics
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You could read the English 17th-18th century, or maybe the Scholastics? Most people on lit jump from Aristotle to Descartes and totally ignore Christianity and Medieval philosophy.
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>>7896428
True.
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