who is the great philosopher in this world?

Question

names of philosophers and books or website

Answer 1

A list of some of the greatest ever western philosophers in more or less chronological order. Some of these are even greater than the others though; these have their names in caps to distinguish them. I've tried to include the title of their most important work/works if I know it. Hopefully this will give those of you new to philosophy some place to start. Again, I hope to enlarge this page with more information over time.

Thales: Traditionally considered the first ever western philosopher. None of his writings survive.

SOCRATES: Ancient Greek, changed philosophy from a study of natural science to ethics and politics. Wrote nothing.

PLATO: Ancient Greek, student of Socrates, most influential philosopher of all time. Works: The Republic.

ARISTOTLE: Ancient Greek, student of Plato, second most influential philosopher of all time. Works: The Nichomachean Ethics, The Metaphysics, The Politics.

Plotinus: Fused Platonic principles with Christian teaching. The last of the ancient Greek philosophers. Works: The Enneads.

St Augustine: Continued Plotinus' project of Platonic Christianity. The first of the Scholastic philosophers. Works: The Confessions, The City of God.

St Anselm: Scholastic, mostly famous for his argument for the existence of God, the Ontological Argument, which was based on the argument that it would be contradictory to God's nature for him not to exist. Works: The Monologion.

ST AQUINAS: The greatest Scholastic, he changed their emphasis from Plato to Aristotle, promoting him as the greatest of all philosophers and attempting to fuse Aristotelianism and Christianity. Works: The Summa Theologica.

Duns Scotus: Scholastic. I don't know much about him.

William of Ockham: Scholastic. Mostly famous for Ockham's razor, which argues for simplicity in arguments.

Machiavelli: Political philosopher, famous for the ruthless advice he gave to rulers in The Prince. Works: The Prince, The Discourses.

DESCARTES: The father of modern philosophy for challenging the blind acceptance of Aristotle. Works: The Meditations, Discourse on Method.

HOBBES: Political philosopher. Explosively infamous in his day for being a suspected atheist, among other reasons. Works: Leviathan.

SPINOZA: As infamous as Hobbes, his contemporary, in his day. Thought that the universe was God and we were all part of it. Works: Ethics.

Malebranche: Considered the equal of Descartes or Spinoza in his day, now mostly ignored. Works: The Search After Truth.

Arnauld: Equal to Leibniz and Malebranche in his day, now suffers the same fate as Malebranche. Works: His correspondance is highly important, but also Logic or the Art of Thinking.

LOCKE: Empiricist. Famous for his views on the human mind, knowledge and how we can own property. Currently my favourite philosopher. Works: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government.

LEIBNIZ: Rationalist, famous for his justification of evil and his ideas on substance. Works: Discourse on Metaphysics, Monadology, Theodicy.

BERKELEY: Idealist, argued that the physical didn't really exist, only the mental did. Not a popular view nowadays. Works: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.

HUME: Empiricist, most famous for arguing that inductive knowledge is not certain. Works: A Treatise on Human Nature, The Enquiries.

Rousseau: Political philosopher mostly. Some consider him great, others, like me, think him a sloppy and shallow thinker. Works: The Social Contract, The Origins of Social Inequality, Emile.

KANT: Considered to be the greatest of the modern philosophers, his influence is all-pervasive in almost every area of philosophy. Works: Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.

Fichte: Follower of Kant, one of the founders of nationalism.

HEGEL: Argued that all history was progressing towards a perfect state of being. Works: Phenomenology of Spirit, The Philosophy of Right.

Marx: Follower of Hegel, took his ideas and changed them into Communism. Works: The Communist Manifesto, Capital.

Kierkeguaard: First major objector to Hegel, consider to be a founder of existentialism. Works: Either/Or, Sickness Unto Death, Fear and Trembling.

Schopenhauer: Famous mostly for his pessimistic outlook and for influencing Nietzsche. Works: The World as Will and Representation.

J.S. Mill: Utilitarian, follower of Bentham. Works: On Liberty, Utilitarianism.

NIETZSCHE: Mostly a moral philosopher, famously rejected traditional Christian and Jewish morality as 'slave morality'. Works: Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil.

James: Important US philosopher, proponent of pragmatism. Works: Pragmatism, Varieties of Religious Experience.

Frege: Most important logician since Aristotle.

Russell: Perhaps the greatest philosopher of the last century. Works: Problems of Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Principia Mathematica (with Whitehead).

Wittgenstein: Student of Russell, another contender for greatest of the last century, premier philosopher of language. Works: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations.

Heidegger: Important German philosopher. Works: Being and Time.

Sartre: Famous French existentialist. Works: Being and Nothingness.

There are more recent important philosophers, like Rawls, Nozick, Searle, Singer, and so on, but I'd say it's too early to tell if they belong on this list yet.

Answer 2

there is a list ...let me know what would you like to know ?just the name or what they are famos whit
Plato ,Aristotle ,Pythagoras Socrates , Origen , JakobBoehme Mark Avrelius Swami Vivekananda Sri Aurobindo DaniiAndreev
Karl Marx
Anaxagoras
St. Augustine
Albert North Whitehead
Teyar de Chardin
Nicolai Berdyaev
Chizhevsky

http://sangha.net/messengers/Philosophers.htm
Voltaire
Cicero
Francis Bacon
Vladimir Soloviev
Pavel Florensky
Roger Bacon
Seneca
Adam Smith
Ludwig Zamenhof
Rene Descartes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Bernard Russell
Immanuel Kant
Thomas Moore
Friedrich Engels

Answer 3

Socrates (Greek: , invariably anglicized as Sǒcratēs; 470–399 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher who is widely credited for laying the foundation for Western philosophy.

Said to be an Athenian, he is described as having been condemned to death by an Athenian court that had found him guilty of impiety and of corrupting Athenian youth through his teachings. Those giving the account say he chose to die by drinking hemlock, though he had been given the opportunity to go into exile, as he believed exile would both further dishonor the agreement he had willingly made to abide by the laws of Athens, and that he would fare no better teaching in other cities.

Answer 4

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx and G.W.F. Hegel. Jurgen Habermas, Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek.

Answer 5

Saravapallli Radhakrishnan

Answer 6

If you mean alive i'd consider these as candidates;
Peter Singer
Mary Midgely
Paul Ricoeur
Noam Chomsky

Answer 7

Groucho Marx

Answer 8

i suggest you read sophie's world by jostein gaarder. it is about the history of philosophy, with discussions on major philosophers wrapped around a very good plot.

Answer 9

the one who sees. Plato, Socrates, Confucius, Lao-tse,Adi Sankaracharya, Thirukkural(Tamil Nadu,)

Answer 10

George Carlin- HBO

Answer 11

Who can forget Donald Trump. Now that's philosophy in action.