2007-05-17 10:11:33 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, Kant influenced Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Sartre to name a few. He made quite an impact.
2007-05-17 10:19:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In no particular order:
Issac Newton
Nicolaus Copernicus
Thomas Jefferson
Galileo Galilei
Charles Darwin
Alexander von Humboldt
David Hume
Plato
Socrates
Hippocrates
Aristotle
Carl Sagan
Karl Popper
William of Ockham
Baruch Spinoza
Immanuel Kant
Friedrich Nietzsche
2007-05-17 17:39:31 · answer #2 · answered by asgspifs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David Hume
Thomas Jefferson
Rene Descartes
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Aristotle
Voltaire
Jean Jacque Rousseau
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2007-05-17 17:30:02 · answer #3 · answered by Dahlia O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All thinking is free and enlightenment is relative to the person as many would say in our politically correct society. I think Jesus/God has made the most contributions to our way of thinking. He is after all the Creator!
2007-05-17 17:21:21 · answer #4 · answered by miriamadamswashington_01 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably evolution.
We've grown into human beings, that over time more and more use their ability to think. The possibility of truly using our minds for the benefits of mankind probably really started at Voltaire.
2007-05-17 17:18:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheists have without a doubt, sure they have killed 200 million people in the last 90 years, but nevertheless since the 1700's atheists have been the most free thinking. Unfortunately atheists are starting to go away from their free-thinking, they are banding together forming sort of dogmatic ideals and pushing out their own agendas. Unfortunately the brainwashing process has begun and the once "saviors" of free thought, will become just like the religious they tried to destroy.
2007-05-17 17:16:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Socrates - His thought has logical, epistemological, and metaphysical aspects; but its underlying motivation is ethical. It sometimes relies upon conjectures and myth, and it is occasionally mystical in tone; but fundamentally he is a rationalist, devoted to the proposition that reason must be followed wherever it leads.
2007-05-17 17:14:46 · answer #7 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm gonna go with Shakespeare and Einstein
2 men who have shaped the way I think
henry miller was a genius too
2007-05-17 17:17:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buddha. He took religion out of the realm of superstition and allowed people to live a spiritual life that does not preclude questioning.
2007-05-17 17:17:37 · answer #9 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
How about David Hume? He did a great job of debunking Christian rationalizations.
2007-05-17 17:23:23 · answer #10 · answered by L Dawg 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋