/lit/ - Literature

would be
or are?

>>16301877
Would be, can't you read?

>>16301869
Aquinas, Hume, Descartes
Maybe aristotle, plato wouldn't have one and augustine may belatedly get one
Spinoza would have one but it wouldn't be popular
Russell's would be popular
I don't think Wittgenstein or frege would have one
Hegel would have one and kant would w reservations

>>16301900
can’t you think of something interesting to post about

>>16301900
Yeah but aquinas is probably in the top 10 largest followings on instagram but he's not in the top 10 of philosophers since he says nothing original.
You're just asking which are the top 10 philosophers, or you're asking which philosophers are the most popular. The latter is an irrelevant question.

>>16301927
>You're just asking which are the top 10 philosophers, or you're asking which philosophers are the most popular.
No, I ask which would have the most followers on instagram

>>16301941
Yes, that's the same as asking "which philosophers are most liked by the irrelevant midwits of the world."

>>16301986
They follow him, it doesn't mean they like his philosophy. Maybe he makes good photos.

>>16302003
Or the people on Instagram are halfwits or mid wits and thus like worse philosophers. People who say confident, easily accessible, undeep things.

Marcus Aurelius would have more followers than a Kardashian

>>16301869
You're basically asking who are the top 10 most attractive philosophers, so here's my ranking:
1. Novalis
2. Ludwig Wittgenstein
3. GE Moore (as young man, pic related)
4. Søren Kierkegaard (even despite his hunchback)
5. Alexis de Tocqueville
6. St Augustine
7. Albert Camus
8. Gilles Deleuze
9. Marcus Aurelius
10. Jacques Derrida

>>16302083
oops forgot to attach pic of GE Moore

I can't see Aquinas HAVING an instagram. He was a fat nerd who was bullied by his parents. If he were alive today he'd be a Zoomer Twitter Tradcath e-theologian who fedoraposted on the side, only actually believing in God after his near death experience wherein his vape pen explodes in his face.

Really, the idea of a philosopher (I'm counting theologians as philosophers for ease) having any sort of popularity doesn't show up until around the Renaissance, when the royalty and nobility start acquiring nerd-harems to have them throw treatises and calculators at each other.

Marcus Aurelius.

>>16302083
>Søren Kierkegaard (even despite his hunchback)
Which hunchback is that?

>>16302100
>when the royalty and nobility start acquiring nerd-harems to have them throw treatises and calculators at each other.

>>16301869
Camus #1 easily.

Modern photo touch up with that face....