What Old School Philosopher do you think is most apt to modern day UK society?

Question

In terms of Modern Day society which Philosopher do you think is most relevent? Could anyone recommend any modern day(Living) Philosophers worth reading?

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Answer 1

Karl Marx and you cannot go wrong.

Answer 2

"What Old School Philosopher do you think is most apt to modern day UK society?
In terms of Modern Day society which Philosopher do you think is most relevent? Could anyone recommend any modern day(Living) Philosophers worth reading?

You said 'living'. Here is a living philosopher I shall recommend now.


Ute Bublitz (1998)

Beyond Philosophy
Reconciliation and Rejection
Three Essays on Aristotle and Hegel

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/bublitz.htm

"This book is about philosophy, without, however, being a philosophy book. I did not even wish to continue the line of traditional philosophy. Indeed, I am convinced that it is impossible for anyone to do so today.

The meaning of philosophy is deeply linked to reconciliation. And reconciliation to the world as it is today is no longer possible. Living unreconciled opens the way for rejection. Yet, rejection can never carry out what it implicitly requests: a thorough transformation of life. Without the element of the general, rejection is doomed to certain failure. Only philosophy has been able to develop that generality. On the other hand, mere philosophical knowledge of how to grasp the whole, dies the moment it is faced with a world to which reconciliation is impossible. Today, then, we can neither reject the way we live, nor reconcile ourselves to it. In this book, I confront the two so that they mutually illuminate each other with the hope that, in their combined light we can see our path into the future. ..."



http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/index.htm

Answer 3

Old school: they're nearly all good, for different reasons.

Diogenes was healthily sceptical about authority. Descartes is pretty good at showing you how to be logical. Kant is looking at the stars in a good way. Hume is more or less immune to B.S. Schopenhauer is tremendously hard to impress. Nietzsche is the master of showing you things from an unexpected angle. Marx isn't exactly a philosopher, but he does (as someone once said) try to build hope into history.

Negatively: Plato is the ultimate guy for rigging an argument to work out the way he wants it to. Hegel is the first guy to talk that guff about the end of history, although for him it was 19th century Prussia rather than late 20th century America. Avoid them both until you've been thoroughly inoculated.

On no account read Alain de Botton at all.

Of living philosophers, my personal favourite is Ted Honderich, expert on conservatism (in brief - he doesn't like it) and asker of tough questions in political philosophy, although Sheldon Wolin is coming up a close second in that field right now. Peter Singer is also someone whose arguments I find pretty formidable.

Answer 4

Old school? Thomas Hobbes. Modern? John Searle, Jerry Fodor, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Dennet and Harry G. Frankfurt. Realists all.

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Answer 6

the sofists...
Actually I like the discussion Rawls, Habbermas, Peter Singer, Tom Regan about etic.

Answer 7

old school: Kant, hobbes and nietzsche
living philosopher: roy bhaskar & gayatri spivak

Answer 8

Aristotle is applicable to all societies