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I haven't read 10 philosophers

>>17300797
>your age
23
>your satisfaction in life
Very satisfied
>10 philosophers who've influenced you the most
Kant
Schopenhauer
Buddha
Aristotle
Plato
Shankara
Parmenides
Seneca
Montaigne
Wittgenstein

>>17300805
do you think they actually contributed to your life satisfaction

>>17300797
23
Pretty satisfied
Kierkegaard
Taleb (fight me you faggots)
Ellul
Schopenhauer
Plato
Wittgenstein
Nietzsche
Carl Schmit
Marcus Aurelius
Roger Scruton

>>17300873
No they're the only ones I've read.

>>17300873
I enjoy learning, along with this, Seneca, Buddha and Aristotle have a good amount of practical philosophy which I have found benefitial.

>>17300797
29
Meh
Fuck philosophy, al-Ghazali was right

>>17300797
>Age
28
>Your satisfaction in life
Every facet of my life is an enduring disappointment
>10 influential philosophers
Only gonna say one, Richard Rorty.

Age 23
Satisfaction 7/10. In solid place but there is stuff I still want to do
Philosophers
1. St. Thomas Aquinas
2. Confucius
3. Edward Feser
4. Epictetus
5. Marcus Aurelius
6. Dietrich von Hildebrand
7. St. Francis de Sales
8. Joseph de Maistre
9. Curtis Yarvin
10. Yukio Mishima (not really a philosopher but I think Sun and Steel had some good insights)

21
0/10
Hermes
Kant
Hegel
Marx
Nietzsche
Husserl
Heidegger
Land
Gans
I want to die, but after reading them, even more so.

>>17300905
Redbull me on this cameljockey.

>>17301001
>I want to die, but after reading them, even more so.
Why?

>>17300797
30

Waiting for death, but still here for love. Oh well/10

Nietzsche
Richard Grannon
Some stoic stuff from the stoics
Onfray

>>17301001
Based. Hang in there, my friend. Things will get better.

>>17300797
23
0/10
Cioran
Zapffe
Schopenhauer
Stirner
Becker
Fisher
Debord
Baudrillard
Ligotti
Metzinger

>>17300797
>your age
16
>your satisfaction in life
2.5/10
>10 philosophers who've influenced you the most
I don't read. I waste time here instead of /pol/ so I'll lose brain cells at a slower rate.

>>17301037
I am the detritus of Being, hated by God and man. My only function to others is to be a human death drive. Every day I wake up Being calls me to challenge all beings, break them apart and dissimulate them. That or I'm an MKUltra victim.

>>17301043
Redpill me on Grannon, who is he and what is his deal?

>>17301078
You sound like you have a personality disorder

>>17300797
30
8/10 (which is to say, pretty good for a bad thing)
Yuck. I can't imagine what it would be like to be influenced significantly by a philosopher. They either make good points or bad ones, but reading their argumentation (or pontification, depending) has never significantly altered my perspective on anything. The interesting component in philosophy is in answering its questions yourself, and just wholesale borrowing someone else's bad reasoning is a sad approach

>>17301100
>Yuck
Go back retarded subhuman

>>17301094
A puzzle piece can only have the shape the entire puzzle leaves for it. For certain pieces to have a certain shape, other pieces must have particular shapes to allow that. If we are in an infinite puzzle, such as the world/the universe we live in, malformed pieces are inevitable.

>>17301100
Adam Phillips makes an somewhat similar point, where if you are a "Hegelian" or whatever, it is because you are traumatised by him, insofar as you read them and found your intellect to be beneath theirs, and submit to their system as they offer you the security of what seems to be a shelter over your head, to block out the rain of anxiety and unknowing.

32
8/10 - used to be 6/10 but improved significantly since I reduced my time in social media to like 90% of what it used to be.
None, my inspiration comes from spending time with wife, family and friends, doing what we like (boardgames, ttrpg, reading, videgames); improving my work, working out and learning more about the things that interest me.

>>17301112
Well I would say at least channel your malformation into something creative, if you long for anything other than death or your current existence even slightly then leap off the cliff, the worst scenario is death so everything else is just icing on top for you

>>17301086
Self made lambda coach who actually went a bit further in various domains like self defense, psychology, marketing, philosophy, United State culture and it's world influences...

Trains people on how to assert boundaries, plays with ideas put them in correlation with the various aspects of life. It's one of many contemporary youtube coaches, but he's a good melting-pot of what there is to learn about yourself and how to prepare for a new world where people will flee everything about what's really inside them.

>>17300797
18
idk/10
Spengler
Mishima
Fisher
Baudrillard
Plato
i mostly read history tho, i should do more philosophy

>>17300797
>your age
38
>your satisfaction in life
Tacking it up in the ass and hunting fascist on social media
>10 philosophers who've influenced you
Marx

27
8/10
Xenophon
Arrian/Epictetus
Augustine
Machiavelli
Montaigne
Hobbes
Locke
Stirner
Nietzsche
Taleb

>>17300797
>Age
23
>Your satisfaction in life
Great
>10 influential philosophers
I don't read philosophy garbage

>>17300797
25
9.5/10
Hume
Musashi Miyamoto
Sun Tzu
Jung
Kierkegaard

29
4/10
Baudrillard
Debord
Nietzsche
Wittgenstein
Lao Tsu
Machiavelli
Arendt
Plato
Strauss
Foucault

>>17301283
Do Sunt Tzu and Jung count as philosophers?

>>17301519
Philosophy of war is philosophy

38
depressed
Jordan Peterson
Carl Jung
Julius Evola
William Pierce
Nietzsche
Machiavelli

47
75%-95% satisfaction.
Epicurus
Stirner
Nietzsche
Bakunin
Kropotkin
This and that. Taoism, RAW, filmmakers, musicians, me, etc.

>>17300797
>age
26
>satisfaction
Satisfied
>10 philosophers
Plato
Aristotle
Descartes
Hume
Kant
Fichte
Marx
Carnap
Goodman
Sider

>>17300797
26
about a 26
i get all my philosophy from anime

19
Shit sucks but there are many opportunities I have to improve myself and I'm optimistic about the future.
Heraclitus
Sen no Rikyū
Montaigne
Spinoza
Marx
Sorel
Whitehead
Bataille
Lacan
Norbert Wiener
I also think about Heideggerian thrownness a lot, but I don't know enough about Heidegger to say he influences me as a whole.

>>17302657
>Marx
>Carnap
Analytic philosophy and Marx go together like fire and a forest anon, stop it.

>>17302773
Carnap himself was a socialist influenced by Marxism, it directly influenced his ideas. And Engels' presentation of dialectical materialism and its contrast with 'metaphysics' literally gets into the stuff Theodore Sider has to say in contemporary analytic metaphysics. The more you know.

>>17301118
Consider myself Hegelian, was def traumatized, consider myself to be far beneath him. But Hegel is no shelter from the rain of anxiety and unknowing. I am Hegelian insofar as I desperately seek escape from his system, or at least ways to push it further. I have become convinced that none can escape the chasm he opened up, and that the only way out is to dig further in.

>>17302793
Correct me if this is just characteristic of the analytical Marxism of faggots like G. A. Cohen but don't these types reject the LTV and make use of retard liberal game theory? If so anon, that's horrific nonsense.

>>17300797
21

4/10

J.K Rowling
Stephen Hawking
Henry the 5th
PewDiePie
Me
Ghandi
Barak Obama
Rabbi Bar Yochai
Bill Gates
Will Smith

>>17300797
24
1/10. can't say 0 since it can always be worse.
10? give me a break
Houellebecq is right about everything.

>>17302827
I'm not reading analytical Marxists or analytic ethics/politics stuff in general. That's not what Carnap's work is about. You might as well critique me for my interest in Plato through Fichte because it certainly isn't just interest in them for the sake of strengthening my understanding of Marxism and Marxism alone.

>>17303312
Fair point I concede.

>>17300797
>your age
29
>your satisfaction in life
I'm satisfied w myself
>10 philosophers who've influenced you the most
1. Plato
2. Augustine
3. Christianity in general
4. Parmenides
5. Frege
6. Wittgenstein
7. Abelard
8. Aristotle
9. Spinoza
10. Chomsky