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Post by Galadon on Oct 22, 2003 16:42:37 GMT -5
Who is your favorite philosopher, time period doesn't matter.
Mine is [glow=red,2,300]Nietzche[/glow]
Those thinkers in whom all stars move in cyclic orbits are not the most profound: whoever looks into himself as vast space and carries galaxies in himself also knows how irregular all galxies are: they lead into the chaos and labyrinth of exstence.
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Post by Wyrmfire on Oct 22, 2003 16:55:29 GMT -5
No idea. I'm not the most well versed ion philosopy . Nietzche sounds cool, though, do you have any more quotes?
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Post by Galadon on Oct 22, 2003 18:04:15 GMT -5
Suspicious-- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom- but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy: and so could dishosesty, cowardice and laziness be the precondtions for morality
Nietzsche's Daybreak
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Post by Merkuri on Oct 22, 2003 18:56:24 GMT -5
Plato. I don't necessarily agree with his ideas, but I like them just the same. The Allegory of the Cave is my favorite.
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Post by Galadon on Oct 23, 2003 11:58:32 GMT -5
An interesting view form this Merkuri
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Post by Galadon on Oct 23, 2003 15:20:52 GMT -5
I had a hunch this topic wouldn't go far.
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Post by Wyrmfire on Oct 23, 2003 15:22:33 GMT -5
It has a bit more of a classic education requirement than most
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Post by Shura on Oct 23, 2003 15:58:44 GMT -5
I'm a big nietzche fan myself, as you can tell by my sig. Was it Plato who believed that everything was just a shadow or copy of a perfect version? I personally prefer philosophy of people, scoiety and the nature of the mind than that of the natural world. Also, who could not like Socrates? Not many complete philsophical ideas in him, but you've got to admire his principles and belief in questioning everything (which is the nature of philsophy).
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Post by Merkuri on Oct 23, 2003 16:02:19 GMT -5
Yes, that was Plato, and that's what he's talking about in the Allegory of the Cave. I like philosophies of the world around us. I think that's one of the reasons I love the Matrix so much. And about Socrates... we don't know much about him besides what Plato said about him... so it's entirely possible that Plato actually made everything up and Socrates was an idiot. ;D Therefore, my philosopher's better than yours, so nya nya! Edit: Thought I should say something about Nietzche since everyone else seems to like him. I don't. Like him, that is. To be honest I don't remember exactly why... the only things I remember from my philosophy classes are the things I liked. He came up with the superman, didn't he? Didn't like the superman. I like Superman, but not the idea of the superman.
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Post by Draxy on Oct 23, 2003 17:56:08 GMT -5
For me it is Rene Descartes.
From that source my motto: "For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is to rightly apply it."
And the foremost dictum I live by: "After all, it is possible that I may be mistaken; and it is but a little copper and glass, perhaps, that I mistake for gold and diamonds."
Draxy
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Post by khyron1144 on Oct 23, 2003 20:54:14 GMT -5
Depending on what you mean by philosopher:
Lao-tsu
Buddha Gautama
Diogenes the Cynic
John Lennon
the current Dalai Lama
Jubal Harshaw (fictional character from Heinlein's Sranger in a Strange Land)
Tar Gibbons (fictional character from Bruce Coville's ALiens Ate My Homework)
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F'n A, mate!
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Post by Slag on Oct 24, 2003 8:19:09 GMT -5
*sings*
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiimanual Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable! Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy begger who could drink you under the table. David Hume could out-consume Schoppenheir and Heggel, And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was not as sloshed as Schleggel!
There's nothin' Nietche couldn't teach'ya 'bout the raisin' of the wrist... Socrates himself was Permanently piiiisssssssed!
J...uuuuu...ohn Stuart Mill of his own free will on half a pint of shanty was particularly ill. Plato they say, could stick it away half a crate of whiskey every day, Aristotle, Aristole was a bugger for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his Dram! And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart "I drink, therefor I am!"
O Socrates himself is particularly missed A lovely little bugger but bastard when he's pissed!
(I guess my inner philosopher is Jack Daniels...oopsie!)
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Post by EK - Shadow of Death on Oct 24, 2003 9:34:11 GMT -5
Miyamoto Musashi
Siddhartha Gautama
Robert Heinlein
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Post by Galadon on Oct 24, 2003 11:54:42 GMT -5
PHILOSOPHER
1. A person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment.
2. A person whose philosophical perspective makes meeting trouble with equanimity easier.
3. An expoounder of a theory in a particlular area o experience.
hmmm maybe I should check speelling closer.
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Post by EvilBob on Oct 25, 2003 2:50:40 GMT -5
Well my favorites are as follows.
Miyamoto Musashi
Lao Tsu
Sun Tzu
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Jefferson
Payne
Thomas Moore
and finally Tim the Guy that Runs the book store
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