2006-12-21 14:26:54 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Locke, hands down.
2006-12-21 14:28:53 · answer #1 · answered by jaden404 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John Stuart Mills
2006-12-21 22:29:24 · answer #2 · answered by Dane 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Jefferson.
2006-12-21 22:43:08 · answer #3 · answered by nomorecash702 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if it has to be a philosopher it would be Sartre's existentialism but if it was just a great mind (this would be no surprise) has to Pascal. however logic and reason is the basis behind a good philosopher. but It looks like you are looking more towards political minds.
and yes I know its a bleak look on life but it rings to me. of course im talking his early stuff before he went to marxism in his old age
2006-12-21 22:54:30 · answer #4 · answered by Blaise_Pascal 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Now that's a good question and a tough one too! I would have to say Leonardo Boff, who was one of the founders of Liberation Theology, a kind of socialist Catholicism frowned upon by the Vatican.
2006-12-22 12:35:25 · answer #5 · answered by Sicilian Godmother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Douglas Adams
"Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it."
Substitute "nation" for "Galaxy" and remove the word "Galactic" and you have the US government in a nutshell.
God bless America.
2006-12-21 22:38:07 · answer #6 · answered by Sugarface 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam Smith (Father of Capitalism)
2006-12-21 22:28:58 · answer #7 · answered by Raï 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tricky, my attitudes seem to work round Kant and Mill, bizarrely enough. If I had to pick one i'd say Kant because i discovered Mill after i'd started thinking like him.
2006-12-21 22:30:36 · answer #8 · answered by Shadebug 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Aquinas and his Summa Theologia
2006-12-21 22:30:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Grandpa Munster
2006-12-21 22:31:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋