Can you please recommend a philosopher. Who in your opinion has the most interesting theories?

Answer 1

all the Greek ones

Answer 2

I'll sorta respond to other answers. Shakespeare? Not even a philosopher. The greeks are over rated.

Joseph Campbell, I don't know if he's a philosopher per se, but he has some wonderful views on human behavior based on mythology.

I would reccomend Kierkegaard. He put a lot of thought into faith. He said that to have faith is to have doubt. YOu can't have one without the other. And you need faith to believe in irrational things like love and God.

Answer 3

I really recommend Michel Montaigne - not only are his ideas interesting and practical, but he also wrote in an entertaining manner. He is the most "human" philosopher I can think of, with simple things we can all put in place at once.

Also Epicurius - his ideas on how to live a good life are still valid today.

Answer 4

I wish you luck in your search for enlightenment. My own search led me to first to beleive in God to whom I prayed for help in my search for wisdom. I read that Jesus himself said "seek and you will find." Please take heart that he means everyone and the answer is there but first you must find the question.
Why don´t you try a popular modern encyclopedia of philosophy which gives an outline of all the great ones and their theories. Then you can look more deeply into the ones which interest you the most. Dorling Kindersley have a good one.
During your journey you will recognise the period of great doubt when it may seem to you that you are getting nowhere and know less than you did when you began. Never ever give up seeking. God Bless.

Answer 5

Michel Foucault

Answer 6

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Answer 7

John Stuart Mill - Despite being a Liberal, his political theories on rights and responsibility laid the foundations for the British Labour Party's statement of its aims and principles where it says in Clause 4, "...the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe..."

Powerful stuff.

Answer 8

Friedrich Nietzsche

Answer 9

Sati the enlightened girl lived life by example. She kept it simple. AS the author wrote at the end " Was she god? I do not know. But if she was not, she was what god should be like" Of course her words are not mere philosophy. She was to me the only one worth reading. She talked, lived it and passed it on. She was all about living now, not worrying, being happy and helping others. Yet she understood about the essence of life, the connections, the eternal nature and everything really.

Answer 10

Immanual Kant

Answer 11

Socrates of course. As the 'Father of Western Philosophy' he started it all and we have been listening to endless twaddle ever since. However, if he ever wrote anything himself, it hasn't survived so we only have the word of the doting Plato to rely on, plus enemy Aristophanes' piss-take. Also Xenophon who like Plato, was an admirer. Interesting that no one neutral wrote anything about him.