who is wrold best philosopher?

Answer 1

It's you! I'm not joking. You know your desires best. You can plan best how to achieve your goal. You know the most important questions for you and you are bound to work most actively to find the answers.

Answer 2

Socrates, for integrating life, method, outlook, etc so completely. His influence on important thinkers from Kierkegaard (who wrote, roughly speaking, that he was basically copying socrates in method) to Wittgenstein, who respected almost no philosophy (though you could argue that if wittgenstein didn't respect philosophy and he liked Socrates, is Socrates really a good philosopher?).

He influenced, taught Plato... and it's been said that "All philosophy is a footnote to Plato."

His Apology in Plato is wonderful to read.

One can imagine an excellent movie being made of his life.


The arguments against the claim are really strong though: He had no real positive philosophy, that is, no system, no theories. Also, he had no works of his own -- just what Plato and some others have told us.

But that's who came to my mind upon first hearing the question :)

Answer 3

Although many are brilliant, I think that David Hume is the best, and most underrated, philosopher. He was a true Skeptic, and he was the first to say that nothing could be proven, not even that we have a "self." He stuck to the fact that no one can prove God exists, even at a time when saying so meant he was denied respect and employment. Finally, he was the first to say that cause and effect can't be proven, because no matter how many times we view one event follow another in succession, we still can't say that the first event caused the second.

Answer 4

Many would say Socrates, perhaps Neitchse or Freud or even Epicurus but to me It would be Plato. Most everthing we know about Socrates was written by Plato one of his greatest pupils. What we have read about Socrates might actually have been the very own thoughts of Plato. Although Socrates was renowned in his search for wisdom, virtue and the best possible life. Plato to me is a case of the student becoming the Sensei, as Socrates said, "The more I know the more I know nothing." Socrates never wrote anything!

Answer 5

Zorak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorak

or

Zizek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizek

Answer 6

Friedrich Nietze - He postulates that we should live in the realities of the world, rather than in the world beyond. He also believed that "life-affirmation," which is the quest for truth in all doctrines no matter how popularly accepted they are. He was one of the first philosophers who believed in "existentialism". To live is to really exist in this world, to be able to adapt and apply your beliefs in accordance with the existing environment,

Answer 7

Dr. Seuss. Anybody who can take profound philosophical ideas and simplify it to a child's level is worthy of the title. For instance:
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot.
Nothing is going to get better. It's not"
-The Lorax

Answer 8

Karl Marx
He gave the theory of dialactical materialism, a mechanism to discover the class character of society in various eras i. e., Feudlism, Capitalism, Imperialism and Communism

Answer 9

Wrold philosophy is underoverrated at best.

Answer 10

Socrates was pretty damn influential. Him and the greeks that came after him.

Here's a list of famous philosophers I found http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/philoso.htm