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Post by Aj_June on Jan 17, 2019 9:11:02 GMT
Do the Russians like Kant?
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 17, 2019 11:07:57 GMT
Do the Russians like Kant? Not sure, dude. Why do you ask?
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Post by Aj_June on Jan 18, 2019 5:53:09 GMT
Do the Russians like Kant? Not sure, dude. Why do you ask? Because I once saw a person in a video say in a light hearted way that Russians are very serious about Kant and you could be in serious trouble for making an argument in favour of or against him in Russia. Best thing to do is not talk about him. He divides their opinions.
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Post by lunda2222 on Jan 18, 2019 22:46:15 GMT
The greatest?
I'd say the Big Three in Athens save that Socrates isn't included in the list.
Not because they had the greatest ideas, although I claim that Aristotle was immensely ahead of his time. But because the rest of all the other are standing on top of their shoulders. Of course, the closer you come to our time the more shoulders the philosophers are standing on. But these forms the foundation of western philosophy.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 30, 2019 19:10:05 GMT
Boethius, spin the wheel of fortuna!
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 8, 2019 2:24:21 GMT
What about Bill Walton? 🤠
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Post by geode on Feb 8, 2019 16:32:13 GMT
John Lennon
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Post by hi224 on Feb 15, 2019 3:16:38 GMT
Locke.
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Post by geode on Feb 15, 2019 9:02:00 GMT
Other - Will Rogers
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Post by RomyLovesMick on Feb 17, 2019 15:50:49 GMT
In no particular order: Kant – a comprehensive and influential articulation of Enlightenment ideas and the need for ethical moral behavior in a world that was becoming increasingly secularized. Kierkegaard speaks directly to questions and feelings I've had in my own life. I feel a deep emotional connection to him, though I find the Christian context personally problematic. Descartes – the discourse on religion and ontological argument for proving the existence of God is flawed, but he's essential reading for anyone interested in epistemology and the history of ideas. Tennessee Williams read him as a young man and became so obsessed with thinking about thinking that he thought he was losing his mind. Fortunately, I haven't experienced that problem. Rousseau – his political philosophy in The Social Contract played a pivotal role in calling for the radical change that led to the French Revolution. Karl Marx is one of many philosophers who was influenced by his social contract ideas. Rawls – drawing on social contract theory that he calls “highly Kantian,” Rawls posits a political philosophy of social cooperation and distributive justice. C.S. Peirce – for his role in developing pragmatism as well as his pioneering work in Semiotics as a theory of the production of meaning. Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction is found in a variety of disciplines from critical literary and gender studies, cultural anthropology, and political theory (to name just a few), and its impact has been profound for the last forty years or more. One aspect of Derrida's deconstructive methods exposes difference within apparent unity, focusing on binary oppositions in which one term is positioned and (erroneously) defined in hierarchical opposition to another term. Mary Wollstonecraft – in addition to being an important voice in modern feminism, she wrote a blistering response to Edmund Burke's conservative, anti-Jacobin Reflections on the Revolution in France in her Vindication of the Rights of Men.Others: Hannah Arendt Aristotle Plato Foucault Hume Bentham James The Lost One I wish I'd found this thread sooner since it doesn't seem very active now. Thank you for starting it. I enjoyed reading the responses and writing my own. |
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Post by geode on Feb 19, 2019 8:56:01 GMT
"Rawls – drawing on social contract theory that he calls 'highly Kantian,' Rawls posits a political philosophy of social cooperation and distributive justice."
Lou Rawls?
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Post by The Lost One on Mar 21, 2019 10:12:15 GMT
I believe Plato is the greatest philosopher who ever walked the earth. But he is considered Classical, not Western. Greece and Rome were the Classical civilization. Western is different but grew out of Classical. "Western philosophy" (as distinct from western culture) is generally used as a term to distinguish it from eastern philosophy which developed largely separately (Schopenhauer was one of the earliest philosophers to try to marry the two traditions and that wasn't til the early 19th Century). Since Classical philosophy had a huge impact on the development of western philosophy and barely any impact on eastern philosophy, it's generally considered part of western philosophy. Islamic philosophy is an interesting one as was at times a bit of a bridge between the two traditions. I haven't included any Islamic philosophers here, but I've seen historians include them as within the western tradition (Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy for instance).
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Post by The Lost One on Mar 21, 2019 10:13:51 GMT
Poor G.E. Moore is the only philosopher on the list no-one has voted for!
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Post by RomyLovesMick on Apr 9, 2019 11:17:01 GMT
Poor G.E. Moore is the only philosopher on the list no-one has voted for! Well, Virginia Woolf liked him, so there's that.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Apr 13, 2019 18:15:55 GMT
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