2006-12-27 14:44:28 · 10 answers · asked by hope 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Jean-Paul Sartre. We and only we are responsible for our destiny: we live and are defined by our actions, not by our beings. We can't be held down by who our parents "were" or who society says we "are." We create our own existence.
The "no excuses" philosophy. :)
2006-12-27 16:41:44 · answer #1 · answered by kacey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we can basically understand what occurs in existence as quickly as we've already lived it, that's why it may basically be understood backwards. "Hindsight is 20/20." that's what the 1st area potential. It could be lived forward, because you could neither stay on the previous, nor give up time from wearing you forward. you're able to go on, flow forward, plan, and objective for factors sooner or later, regardless of if that's the following day, or two decades from now, yet never ahead of now.
2016-10-28 12:39:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I currently have a specific philosopher, but I enjoy the ideas of utilitarianism.
It seem the problem with each philosopher is that they searched for one solution to everything. I believe there are many and none that are unifying.
Despite that, it all boils down to language. Language has an affect on everything.
2006-12-27 16:04:24 · answer #3 · answered by Mockingbyrd 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
St Augustine
2006-12-27 15:04:58 · answer #4 · answered by Socinian F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Favorite would have to be Hypatia. She was a female Egyptian Philosopher from the year 370! Wow! I wonder all the time what it would have been like to meet a woman like her.
A quote from her is:
“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all”
2006-12-27 14:49:44 · answer #5 · answered by I Ain't Your Momma 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many favorites--here are three:
Plato--we live n caves and can only see what we are told to see/ what we are shown. The only way to know truth is to escape and look at the world by the light of the sun/the good/the god= all knowing + truth. Then, as philosophers, it is our duty to return to the cave and convince the other cavemen that they want to leave too. (oddly enough, there are a shitload of them who don't want to leave!)
Sartre--"Hell is other people".
Nietzsche--"God is dead. God remains dead. AND WE HAVE KILLED HIM. (how come so many people forget the rest of it?)
2006-12-27 15:14:24 · answer #6 · answered by mad_madison_maiden_x 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm more of a Kantian with some Aristotle thrown in. Some things I agreed with Plato though.
2006-12-28 14:06:35 · answer #7 · answered by poorsias 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? - Nietzsche.
It's not my favorite, but I just love the concept of the whole idea.
2006-12-27 15:19:58 · answer #8 · answered by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like Plato, Socrates, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus. My favorite of these theoreticians has to be Scotus.
2006-12-27 15:19:53 · answer #9 · answered by sokrates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Epicurus.. et al.. as Thomas Jefferson said: “The summum bonum with me is now truly Epicurean, ease of body and tranquility of mind; and to these I wish to consign my remaining days”
I like this from Rober Anton Wilson:
"He who lives happiest has forgotten most"
Also from William Blake:
"He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise."
2006-12-27 16:18:44 · answer #10 · answered by Century25 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋