2007-12-04 07:08:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Existentialist philosophers.
Sartre's Being & Nothingness is amazing
Kierkegard's Fear and Trembling is just unputdownable
Camus' Myth of Sisyphus is in own league
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is a classic
Heidegger's A History of Sexuality is the best in this area
Nietszche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra could only be by him
Paul Tillich, Gabriel Marcel, Franz Kafka, etc are all special. I admire their thesis that Existenz precedes Essence and their considered and considerate opposition to the Age of Reason.
2007-12-04 07:30:05 · answer #1 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be the philosophers from the classic age, just like Tales, Plato, Socrates and Aristoteles, because they represent the beginning of this way of living and thinking, a way that was broken during the middle age by 500 years, but theirs philosophy was very constructive contribution to be returned to the revival and remains to this day.
2007-12-04 15:32:39 · answer #2 · answered by rain man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite philosophers are Rosseau and Voltaire. They encouraged people to revolt against the French king Louis XVI
2007-12-04 15:17:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like Plato. Plato is rethinking the world like in a representation of shadows
2007-12-06 05:11:28 · answer #4 · answered by Qyn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plato for giving us the foundation to think and Bertrand Russell for his clarity and straight forward rationale.
2007-12-04 15:35:09 · answer #5 · answered by Jason 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to have a favourite but not anymore...they are all pretty good, even the ones that got their assumptions wrong.
2007-12-04 22:38:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Epicurus, I find his philosophy the most accessible and relevant to daily life.
2007-12-04 16:00:22 · answer #7 · answered by Clint 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sartre and A Rand
2007-12-04 15:19:29 · answer #8 · answered by Run Lola Run 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Aristotle. He was pretty cool.
2007-12-04 15:35:43 · answer #9 · answered by Skelli 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋