/lit/ - Literature

>>14857356
You mean living? The most influential is probably Judith Butler.

>>14857356
Death
Spinoza
Alive
Robert Brandom

>>14857368
Wew

>>14857356
Dead? Kant or Hume.
Living? Chomsky or Kripke.

>>14857356
just imagine what life is like for a man of this physiognomy

>>14857368
Butler should really fucking die

>>14857356
Soren Kierkegaard

>>14857583
It's Søren

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>>14857356
He is the first in the East, the first in the West, and the greatest philosopher in the Western World

>>14857356
Jordan B Peterson. Read "12 Rules for Life"

>>14857611
Based

>>14857492
>Chomsky
>philosopher
He's mostly known for putting forward a a since-disproven theory to explain human linguistic abilities.
He also spergs out over US foreign policy.
I'm not too familiar with Kripke, what's he known for?

>>14857944
Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics.

>>14857944
If you don't even know who Kripke is, I strongly suspect you have no idea what Chomsky's philosophical contributions are.

>>14857368
>>14857522
KIKEDYKE

>>14857971
Chomsky's theory that understanding a language is physically encoded in the brain is an incoherent metaphysical system, anticipated and refuted in advance by Wittgenstein's conception of rule following. Pic related explains

>>14857944
>He also spergs out over US foreign policy.

for good reason. only bad people support it.

>>14857368
literally who?

>>14858382
Lol, no.

>>14857808
Based

>>14857368
Fuck off. Had to read that garbage for my gen eds in uni, legitimately one of the worst things I’ve ever experienced

How bout Sloterdijk? Where should I start with him?

>>14857944
>>14858382
Exhibit #1: Man who heard celebrity say thing that upset him, and will now live the rest of his life reinforcing an artificial opposition against the idea of said celebrity.
See also: identity politics, single-issue voters

>>14858863
i found Philosophical Temperaments easy to read
i'ts made from his prefaces to a history of philosophy.

>>14858382
Thanks for the recommendation.
>>14857958
>Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics.
So? He should have stuck with linguistics instead of moving on to making baseless claims about how the brain works.
>>14857971
>If you don't even know who Kripke is, I strongly suspect you have no idea what Chomsky's philosophical contributions are.
I'm sorry I hurt your feelings. Do you have an actual contribution to make?
>>14858893
18+ only

>>14857502
Sometimes these kinds of men are actually satisfied with women who are overweight and have little to no personality outside of meanness. I see them all the time at the bars by my house, the males are always quite satisfied with their bitter, portly partners and they often look almost identical to this gentleman and have an equally poor sense of humor.

>>14857944
actually he's mostly known for people not reading a single page of his fucking books and thinking they understand him.

Sean Fucking Goonan. No one else comes close.

>>14858382
>metaphysical system
fucking what

>>14857356
Me, because I actually attempted to put my philosophy into practice and didn't die from it.

>>14859088
Reading is fundamental.

>>14857944
No worries, you're not alone. A lot of people get it twisted.

>Chomsky's Philosophical Writings:
Language and Mind (1968)
Reflections On Language (1976)
Rules and Representations (1980)
Knowledge of Language (1986)
Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988)
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind (2000)

Philosophy gets treated as gospel when the person dies. Sure, there are great thinkers today, but no one would acknowledge them as so. At least collectively speaking.