and why?
2006-06-23 15:49:52 · 12 answers · asked by mojo 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Socrates !
He had style; As shown in his dieing last words.
Just before his death Socrates last words were:-
" Crito, we owe a co.ck to Aesculapius; please pay it and don't let it pass."
Aesculapius was the God of Medicine and these words implied that Socrates felt that he owed a debt to the God of Medicine because of the cup of Hemlock he had just drunk.
2006-06-23 16:12:13 · answer #1 · answered by Joe_Pardy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2006-06-23 17:35:29 · answer #2 · answered by Jivan S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mostly Jesus. Also Solomon second. Others like Immanuel Kant, Bertrand Russell, Me, Descartes, Martin Luthor King Jr., St. Paul, ...
2006-06-23 15:58:26 · answer #3 · answered by David L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Big fan of Simone de Beauvoir. Tough to be a woman in a typically male area, and there's no beating "The Ethics of Ambiguity."
Nietzche is good too, for those of us with strong wills, but he seems to lack a moral center--a sense of responsibility that true power must have.
2006-06-23 18:26:34 · answer #4 · answered by candy2mercy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heraclitus he was a person who lived 500 b.C. but that didn't stop him from seeing a divine power in every aspect of the world. He talked about the harmony that controls every thing that fights to overrule another
2006-06-24 05:27:17 · answer #5 · answered by fugit 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adi Samkaracarya.
2006-06-23 18:32:30 · answer #6 · answered by das.ganesh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tupac Shakur, Descares, Plato, and Aristotle.
2006-06-23 16:00:43 · answer #7 · answered by wcbadboy21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May I give you two answers?
1. Yogi Berra. We laugh at his alleged malapropisms, but if you think about his sayings, you realize the Zen-like quality they have.
2. Diogenes the cynic because he didn't kowtow to anyone.
2006-06-23 15:55:48 · answer #8 · answered by Pandak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ayn Rand (Objectivism). Consistent happy life on earth. Contradictions are not permitted, nor required.
2006-06-23 16:13:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Nietschze and Descartes. Nietschze because of his pessimistic realism, and Descartes for his thirst for truth.
2006-06-23 15:53:50 · answer #10 · answered by danieldouglas01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋