Who is your favoritie philopsher of all times whether religious or nonreligious?

Question

they can be religious or nonreligious philosophers. so who is you favorite philosopher and why? i have several favorites but my favorite philosopher is nonreligious and an atheist i know it's kind of weird being as i'm not an atheist but instead i'm agnostic anyway my favorite is friedrich wilhelm nietzsche so who's your and why?

wow aaron i think if you were to learn more about nietzsche on your own even i think you would fall in love with his philosophical views oh well i guess you must have had a complete moron teach you it's okay though i forgive you lol

well i have other philosphers i like as well such as confucius ghandi the buddha and the guy who started taoism lao tzu or lao tse or something like that but i have a few lol

Answer 1

Yeah, I'm not an atheist either but I like Nietzsche, I also like Ayn Rand and Carl Jung.

As far as religious philosophers go? I'd say by John Michael Greer.

Answer 2

Wow, my LEAST favorite is Nietzsche. Part of that is because I had a semester long Nietzsche course taught by a complete imbecile.

My favorites...and I use the plural....are Plato, Kierkegaard, and Marx.

I love Plato because he understood the dynamic between human reason and human nature. He prefered reason, but acknowledged the preemeinent role of the dionosyan.

I love Kierkegaard because I think the logical conclusion of Nietzsche's concept of existentialism is nihlism. I think Kierkegaard's system more accurately describes how people can still find and create values in a subjectivist world.

I love Marx because he gave a system of analyzing history and societies in a way that works. You can't create a system from it, but the Marx approach to historical analasys is rational and efrfective. I also think his description of religion is dead on.

Answer 3

A favorate I can't really pick one that I perfer above another.

I like the ideas of Siddhartha Gautama, but as he said do not believe something because it has been spoken many times or because it is written in a book or because other people say to. Believe it only when you have found it to be true for you and then live by it.

I also like Galileo who said, I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

However I also like Leo Buscaglia who said, Absolute control over another person isn't possible, desirable or loving and in the end destroyes what it sets out to protect.

Answer 4

I'm not sure he can be considered a philosopher, but I really like Heny David Thoreau, and I am also partial to Edward Abbey. These men speak much about how to find the spiritual within yourself and nature, which is more important to me than highly intellectualized ideas about something that is not truly understandable in human nature...human nature and thought.

Answer 5

I have a top three!

1. Carl Jung
2. Voltaire
3. Nietzsche

Answer 6

By "philosophy" I take it that you mean wisdom that is useful in day-to-day life. The really weird "I think therefore I am" crap is of no use to anyone.

(Although I will say that there are a lot of people who find it useful to pop out with big names like Sagan, Kant, Bacon, Anselm, etc. so that they can be "seen" mouthing the names and pretending to be sophisticated. These are the same kind of people who buy the latest liberal books and put them on the shelves pretending they actually read them. This is pretty shallow. There's no need to pretend to be sophisticated, the only people who care are so superficial that they aren't worth the trouble.)

That would put Jesus in the forefront, to me. Almost everything he said is actually useful and it's timeless. He's a hard act to follow.

Answer 7

Yogi Bera

Answer 8

Nietzsche.

Answer 9

Pluto

Answer 10

Charles Manson