Philosophers poll

I'm not really a fan of radical individualism. I included Ayn Rand because there was so much libertarian hype around her. Others may want to defend her!

I may replace Voltaire with Montesquieu (which is more important, but less charismatic and stuff). Also I'm surprised Jean-Jacques Rousseau is not very popular... may erase him as well just like most of those post WW2 philosophers!

I said Machiavelli, Locke, and Sowell.

Machiavelli is likely the most brutally misrepresented philosopher of all time. He was first and foremost a hardline pragmatist, feels and misgivings be damned. He was just open to too many taboos.

Locke's work was HUGELY influential on the good old U S of A. That guy cast a very big shadow.

Sowell I just like. He's a no-nonsense sort of guy.

Nö Lemmy?

My favorite philosophers?

Kssshk, well obviously it's Machiavolus and Voltaire.

There was also this old Krogan drunk on Ryncol who dropped some heavy mind bombs on me about life and death.

I also turn into a philosopher, when I'm on Red Sand and it goes like this:

Vote for La Jiggy Jar Jar Doo...

Oh wait, hang on, wrong Carl Poppa.

Never mind.

ayy good shit sandman, wide variety of choices here

I especially approve of the inclusion of Hans Hermann Hoppe and Ayn Rand :^ )

how do we know that half of them were actually philosophers, history records them as such but gives no reference for it, Asimov's work we can at least read, orwell wrote what some have deemed a manual-others the ravings of a deranged mind..... hell even starship troopers (books) could be seen as a philosophical musing

your classification of what is a philosopher is at odds with your ability to prove them to be such.... for all we know the works of plato Aristotle archemidies and so on could just have been fantasy stories.... but since there is no examples of their work we will never know that for sure, on the other hand there are literally thousands of literary offerings made accessible today that can be judged on their merits...


I suggest that your poll is flawed and without easy access to the works its impossible to judge the quality of many of the purported greats, their acclaimed works having been lost to the entropy of time

Lame.

Plato and Aristotle are the definition of philosopher and their books are preserved through centuries among Byzantines, Islamic philosophers and Italians. I can quote from some of their works, but maybe later or someone else could possibly help cuz I'm busy. 

There is many topics in or related to philosophy. Logic, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, pragmatics, politics etc. ... even history, athletics and meditation.

Not sure. I just came to the conclusion that I'm probably an apatheist. Some guy named Ian von Hegner came up with the term. He a scientist and philosopher but didn't make it to the poll. Atheist, theist, agnostic and "spiritual" don't quite fit for me. There's probably something out there but I pretty much don't care. It's irrelevant to me. I could have picked Nietzsche because some consider he was an apatheist, but since the term didn't exist until 2000 it wouldn't count.

Sorry to resurrect this thread but I didn't know where else to discuss it.

Can you make a new poll? That would require a new thread, yes?

Then you have to include a "none of the above/explain below" option. I doubt my guy would make the list because basically no one knows who he is.