Alright DJMAGNUSA. The Rand philosophy isn't all about IT being the right one. And I suggest you look objective up in the dictionary hun. Anyways the objectivist theory is that moral good is objectively real and moral precepts are objectively valid. Uhm k being objectively anything means it does exist even outside of human perception. Do you know how many modern philosophers and ancient philosophers (even pre-sophoclean) believed this theory? And what modern day philosopher didn't build his or her philosophy at least partially on someone else's previous philosophical thoughts? If you have a problem with Rand as a person that is fine but if you have a problem with her philosophy then you have a problem with at least the partial philosophies of Voltaire, St Augustine, Descartes, Socrates, and Plato. Not to mention hundreds or thousands of others I probably couldn't name.
In my lifetime I have been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture....Oh and my avatar says "The only abnormality is the inability to LOVE!"
When the president talks to god are the conversations brief or long? Does he ask to rape our women's rights and send more farm kids off to die? Does God suggest an oil hike when the president talks to god?
Oh please, not another Ayn Rand fan. The woman is a pseudo-philosophical nut job who doesn't even deserve to be named with some of the other philosophers that were mentioned here. Any person, who has the audacity to name their school of “thought” objectivism, implying they have the complete objective truth, should be distrusted from the beginning. The women was intellectually sloppy in her writing, engaged in extremely poor scholarship in her books (prime-example being Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology), copied tremendously from earlier ethical egoist and then claimed them as her own. Also quite frankly the women didn't even understand the philosophical terms she was using in her writings. Ayn Rand is a prime example of a pop-culture pseudo-philosophical cult which Americans love to buy up, when it really should be thrown in the trash or the paper would be better used for toilet paper.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. -Teddy Roosevelt
Now I really respect C.S. Lewis and he is one of my favorite authors. but the Author and Philospher that has always inspired and brought a greater understanding to me is J.R.R. Tolkien. people have tried to understand him for ages, ever since he wrote The Lord of the Rings. but many have misunderstood him. he is a role modal to me by the way he wrote, by the way he lived and what he believed. much of what he believed was writen simbolicly in his works. he diserves our rememberence. and our respect.
Oh I forgot about Ayn Rand thanks for reminding me ya'll. I absolutely LOVE Ayn Rand. Maybe not all of her philosophies but I do believe one should put oneself before others and that people do put themselves before others even if they don't think about it. Plus she is a GREAT author(ess LoL).
In my lifetime I have been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture....Oh and my avatar says "The only abnormality is the inability to LOVE!"
I like a lot of the older philosophers. Democritus, Wager, Protagorous, Sophocles, Socrates, Plato, Descartes, St. Augustine (although those are a bit newer in relevance), Zeto. Sartre is one of my faves because I treasure my free will. All of the ancient playwrites (that could be considered philosophers) Aesychlus et. al. Eurythmics was pretty cool (sorry couldn't resist) LoL.
In my lifetime I have been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture....Oh and my avatar says "The only abnormality is the inability to LOVE!"
I'd have to say that I'm partial to Luther. He really had somthing when he said that we should be able to explore religion for ourselves, and come to oure own conclusions.
O threats of hell and hopes of paradise, one thing is certain, this life flies, one thing is certain and the rest is lies, the flower once blown forever dies -Omar Khayyam-
And the seas were boiled away, and the Third Realm was torn usunder, leaving, in the end, a landscape foriegn to all.
While this extremely limiting I'll give my top ten in no particular order: Kant Hegel Hume(Probably my favorite if I had to pick one) W.V Quine(some of his work on language is simply stunning) Spinoza Hobbes John Stuart Mill John Rawls John Dewey William James It’s also important to note that this list doesn't necessarily mean I agree with all these philosophers (some of this philosophers are exact opposites) rather it’s just some this philosopher extremely important for their time.
While I enjoy Nietzsche, which my signature indicates, I tend to have to agree with Bertrand Russell when he stated "Nietzsche, though a professor, was a literary rather than an academic philosopher. It’s important to note that Nietzsche did not invent any new technical theories in ontology or epistemology. But he did have an influential role in ethics, nobody can disagree with that. Also I did not put any Eastern Philosophers and their is a very simple reason for this, of all the Eastern philosophies I have read, none have really impressed me or stuck out as "enlightening."
quote: really love Plato/Socrates, Rand
I'll simply put a angry face for Rand because I'm sure most people are more than aware of my feelings on this women.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. -Teddy Roosevelt
Sartre, Voltaire, Naess. Sartre just cuz he's so down to earth. Voltaire because he was ahead of his time. Arne Naess because he came up with the philosophy of deep ecology...a really cool/odd philosophy that all life is connected and that we should live more natural lives, saying our non-vital desires should be secondary to the vital needs of the rest of the planet. He said man was no more special than any other species, just more damaging.
"To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour..." -William Blake
I really love Plato/Socrates, Rand, Freud, and Nietzsche but it's hard to have a "favorite" when philosophy itself is so broad. It depends on which particular subject, I suppose...
"We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled." (Hermione Granger)
you missed a lot of great philosophers on that list of yours
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