Who is the greatest philosopher?

Answer 1

Well I've heard that Emmanuel Kant was a real piss ant
Who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist,
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away,
Half a crate of whisky every day,
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart,
"I drink, therefore I am"...

Yes Socrates, himself, is particularly missed...
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he's pissed.

Answer 2

Um. First, I want to say that Jesus wasn't really a philosopher very much. He was a savior with his own teachings, but philosophy wasn't everything..
Aristotle thought of all these rules of physics, but he never did an experiment or was ever REALLY right about physics. (Rocks fall faster than seashells because they were heavier!)
I think Confucius was the best philosopher.

Answer 3

Who was the greatest lover? Who was the greatest poet? For one it is relative and up to the observer and 2, since we do not know all philosophers or all lovers or all poets all we can determine is who we like of who we know. And even that may be an impossibility considering moods change. One day your favorite poem may be one about life and the next it may be one about death. So there is no greatest lover, there is no greatest philosopher, there is no greatest anything.

Answer 4

this guy i met at Charlie Peppers... he's a regular there... his name is DARE! Hes a "weekend musician". DARE is profound, deep, wise, and he carries the knowledge of the world in what i believe to be his hair.... something like Sampson. Honestly, DARE is curageous in his own right and so outstanding while in his presence seconds feel like minutes and minutes like hours, and if to reach into his daffle bag of truth .... conversations lasting an hour may be so enlightening you'll feel as if days have been stolen from you. DARE is by far the greatest philosopher.

Answer 5

Plato was the best philosopher; he didn't try to ptovide answers to what seem like intractable questions. He just tried to get us thinking about them and to realize that there are questions, hard questions, that are important to the human condition. He is the grandfather of philosophy.

Answer 6

I know you're too much of a dipstick to consider him, so my percentage of best answers will decline with this question. Good for you. At least you can't accuse me of not giving you the truth anyway; though it may be the sole consolation in this case for me.

It was Baruch Spinoza.

No one ever touched his genius; in only a handful of works. He was a genius who instigated modern philosophy; and while extensions have been made upon his work as is natural, he is to philosophy what Newton was to physics. He was indeed more as I see it. Even irreverant Nietzsche harbored a respectful opinion of the man. Consider also, that not only was he greater than Plato, Jesus and Descartes, (to whom he is often fallaciously linked,) by virtue of his ideas; he was opressed during his times not only by the morality of the day (in Spinoza's, it was Jesus' morality in fact,) but he had no followers, no one to encourage his progress or writing, except several corrospondents whom he'd seen only a couple of times in person during the duration of his life. He also was a functioning member of his society, rather than just the elite who just thought or preached; he was a scientific lense grinder - his products were sought after by many of his day to fuel the comming astrological evidience that proved that the church had been hampering the progress of truth.

Through Spinoza, one may be freed of pain. Only for real.

There it is. Go ahead and skim it then pick out another, wrong answer.

Answer 7

from my point of view: Werner Erhard

no one came close to doing what he did - which was to create for people the opportunity to be "philosophers" in thier own lives.

His work made theories and ideas practical and useful today (now). He did not create a body of work to be studied in the isolation and solitude of a library or a university classroom for some future generation but rather a relevent body of work for every day average people who might not ordinarily think about what a 'paradigm' is. He reached people who are living now...he reached people with a natural instinct to shape the world that we all have, his work raised the quailty of life in family, in work places and on the street now.

Werner made it 'about' and 'for' others...about the community ... and humbly disappeared behind his ideas......so little is known about him, and he recieves very little recognition, even though he is involved in transforming of countries, fortune 500 companies and is lauded by leading thinkers and his peers.

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Answer 8

The collective of rishis who composed the four Vedas.

Answer 9

Some unknown dude who was smoking a joint on a saturday back when I was in college. Woah!

Answer 10

A Jewish carpenter by the name of Jesus.