If philosophy is just, basicly, what you feel in YOUR mind then why do people say, for instance, Plato was a great philosopher? All he did was speak his mind, the only way you could be a great philosopher is if people agree with you.
2006-10-21 20:36:01 · 7 answers · asked by The Young Philosopher 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Does any one else agree?
2006-10-21 20:36:48 · update #1
Your right! People recognized as great philosophers may be the only ones people acknowledge. A true "GREAT" philosophers is only as great as they want to be. If they have a good comprehension of the way thing could work in life then they are usually agreed with. Not all people who should be considered great philosophers were recognized though. Just think of all the people who weren't know in society. I think I have very compelling philosophies, but not everybody thinks the same. Just because those few people were recognized doesn't mean they were great. It just means they were bold enough to get what they had to say out on the table, and people agreed with them because they liked what they heard.
2006-10-21 21:00:52 · answer #1 · answered by durr_tee_durr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly, philosophy is not basicly what YOU think. Philosophy is very hard to define, because it is the art of "defining". However, philosophy deals with a HOLISTIC perspective about how everyone thinks and WHY.
I may think that the sky is BLUE, but someone else may think it is RED, even after science has proved it is Blue. Therefore, a great philosopher will try to answer the WHY behind the question. Great philosophers are people who can understand what everyone else is thinking, they are not people who just philosophize about their own ideas, they think about the world as a WHOLE and all thought and ideas as being connected some how.
The ultimate philosophical motive is to find out the difference between "society" and "humanity" (two concepts) and further answering the "why" behind this question.
2006-10-21 20:53:55 · answer #2 · answered by Crowzy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No !
Philosophy is a tad more complicated than just speaking your mind and getting other people to agree with you.
Philosophy on a basic level questions the basis of reality and asks such fundamental things as whether God (or some other type of supreme being) exists or not, morals - why things are "right" or "wrong".
To be a great philosopher, I believe, entails looking at reality in a new or an enlightening way and this is why people such as Socrates, Plato, Descartes, etc are considered. Rather than just spout their views, all great philosophers support their theories with rational thought and logic - and it is this that you must follow when you read philosophy - it is easy to form an opinion but less easy to say why you have come to that opinion in a clear, logical and lucid manner.
2006-10-21 20:48:58 · answer #3 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A great philosopher would need to know their philosophy has nothing to do with themselves and the truths stand for themselves. As far as I can tell, everyone has streaks of brilliant philosophy so long as they continue to let their minds grow and learn. You my friend are a great philosopher. True equality is imperitive that no one is held above or below. And if your thoughts and ideas are that important to share, no acclaim would be needed or desired. To call yourself a great philosopher would trap your philosophy from living in life and would simply be pondered and viewed unattainable to achieve as a mere mortal reader of someone more brilliant than yourself. As far as needing people to agree with you, I do not believe that at all. People cling to security blanket thoughts they may never release for better thoughts and solid truths. Not the philosopher's fault everyone around was not interested or the delivery was interpreted threatening.
2006-10-21 21:03:52 · answer #4 · answered by jeff t 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most great philosophers are people most people havent heard of...i consider socrates and diogenes to be greater than plato...
lao tsu, schopenhauer, leibniz and kiekegaard were also great philosophers
2006-10-21 21:30:36 · answer #5 · answered by Either/Or 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Socrates is my popular, as he further philosophy to the undemanding guy. He'd spend hours interior the agora merely thinking and thinking, conversing with all who cam close to. He grew to become away no one and grew to become into intrigued by way of anybody. Too many philosophers tend to be boastful and elitist, snubbing the undemanding guy. despite the fact that if, the undemanding guy in lots of cases has a greater robust grip on the deep mysteries of life, than some snobby guy who has by no skill relatively experienced life outdoors of his privileged life. Socrates grew to become into stunning, as much as an which contains his dying. He grew to become into given the prospect to flee the night till now his execution by way of hemlock. He refused and pronounced something alongside the lines of that the folk who he enjoyed and respected so dearly had handed his judgment, and he grew to become into hence sure by way of it. specific, Socrates grew to become into the excellent.
2016-11-24 22:16:34 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree with you.
Therefore, you must not be much of a philosopher.
2006-10-21 20:41:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋