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Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:25:47 2014 No.5915962 [DELETED]

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Who is the greatest philosopher of all time?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:27:00 2014 No.5915967 Derrida

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:27:24 2014 No.5915968 Ayn Rand

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:29:06 2014 No.5915975 Nietzsche

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:29:18 2014 No.5915977 De Beauvoir

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:33:57 2014 No.5915989 Socrates

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:35:31 2014 No.5915995 George Carlin

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:37:33 2014 No.5916003 Heraclitus i'm a pyromaniac :oP

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:39:40 2014 No.5916008 >>5915962 Parmenides

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:49:06 2014 No.5916045 Plotinus duh

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:51:41 2014 No.5916058

Define 'greatest'.

Largest Influence: Parmenides/Plato
Longest unbroken paradox streak: Zeno
Most important to the modern age: Heidegger
Biggest Boss: Wittgenstein
Greatest self-help philosopher: Nietzsche
Shut the fuck up Descartes award: Descartes
Holy shit you're a fucking boss at metaphysics: Kant

Poster's favourites for reference: Hegel, Heidegger, Camus, Late Foucault, Judith Butler's ethical work.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 22:57:47 2014 No.5916081 Greatest mind in philosophy of all time was probably Leibniz, or at least one of three-four absolute and profound geniuses. That does not mean he had biggest influence or had biggest impact or that he developed a best philosophical system of thought.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:06:34 2014 No.5916121 >>5915962 >Deleuze

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:09:04 2014 No.5916124 Stirner

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:10:56 2014 No.5916125 >>5916081 I agree. Still not good enough to discover Calculus before Newton however.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:11:24 2014 No.5916127 >>5916081 Leeb-nitz Lyb-nitz Neet-chuch Neet-chee

Godel, Escher, Bach Sat Dec 27 23:16:51 2014 No.5916144

>>5915962
There's absolutely no way to argue this, because most canon philosophers simply advance a certain idea of theirs. If the question were "whinch philosopher contributed the most to the advancement of humankind" or something, I'd probably say Descartes. He did just about as much as Pascal did for math and science, but also perfected solipsism. If we're thinking just "which philosopher provides the most stimulating ideas," I'd say Kierkegaard.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:17:21 2014 No.5916147 >>5916058 underrated post

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:22:01 2014 No.5916173 >>5916147 why not just say "upvote" you utter faggit

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:23:28 2014 No.5916179

>>5916058
Largest Influence: Aristotle
Longest unbroken paradox streak: Zeno
Most important to the modern age: Godel
Biggest Boss: Kripke
Greatest self-help philosopher: Russell
Shut the fuck up Descartes award: Hegel
Holy shit you're a fucking boss at metaphysics: Carnap

>>	Godel, Escher, Bach Sat Dec 27 23:23:34 2014 No.5916180 >>5916173 Lul git outa here bud no one needs you

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:24:33 2014 No.5916184 >>5916058 I need more of this

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:27:14 2014 No.5916198

>>5916144

>which philosopher contributed the most to the advancement of humankind
>Descartes

Don't you mean "Which philosopher contributed most to the floundering in impossible useless metaphysical questions while also pushing an unhealthy mind/body distinction on the next 400 years of western thought"?

Shut the fuck up Descartes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:28:33 2014 No.5916200 >>5916125 Newton was arguably on his level of striking brilliance, he just applied his enormous talent elsewhere. Personally I believe that most flourishing philosophy was developed in 17th century.

>>	Godel, Escher, Bach Sat Dec 27 23:31:15 2014 No.5916209 >>5916198 You're an idiot

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:31:50 2014 No.5916211 >>5916198 >what is scientific method

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 23:38:56 2014 No.5916238

>>5916200
Leibniz was nowhere near Newton's level in Mathematics or the Natural Sciences. Newton was probably the greatest thinker in history.
Newton was a perfectionist and was aware that his theories had massive consequences so he was in little rush to publish them without deriving all that he could.

I would say that the 17th century was the time when Philosophy came into it's own, but I feel that the 20th century solved the problems that those in the 17th posed.
Russell, Tarski, Godel, Popper and Wittgenstein all moved Philosophy forward in some respect, making more progress on general Philosophical problems than any other Philosophers in history. That is my opinion at least.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 00:27:03 2014 No.5916382 >>5916058 I agree with this post on pretty much everything except their favourites mainly b/c I haven't read Camus, Foucault or Butler other than that I would say this post is spot on

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 00:28:33 2014 No.5916389 The greatest philosopher is still the worst scientist.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 00:33:15 2014 No.5916412 What size bottles are those? I should know this since I look forward to the post at the end of every year by that guy. >that black bottle on the left Jizzus Christ indeed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 00:34:49 2014 No.5916418 >>5915962 Hegel

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 00:36:33 2014 No.5916423 >>5916389 And the best scientist is still the worst philosopher. Do you see the problem here?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 00:40:23 2014 No.5916433 >>5916423 No, the best tend to be able to do both. Philosophy has no purpose without Science.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 00:41:56 2014 No.5916439 >>5916433 >No, the best tend to be able to do both. Philosophy has no purpose without Science. Alright, agreed, I was just presenting him with the false dichotomy his antagonistic statement warranted.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 00:46:53 2014 No.5916452 >>5916433 STEM shitposting is at its finest everywhere, all the time.

>>	TR Grunt Louis Sun Dec 28 00:48:58 2014 No.5916457 Wittgenstein or Kripke. Philosophy didn't really start until the 20th century. Except for France, they remained unenlightened.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:01:43 2014 No.5916497 >>5916457 There's nothing philosophical about Supernatural, it's for twelve year old plebs. >>>/tv/

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:04:04 2014 No.5916506 >>5916497 Why did you capitalise 'supernatural'?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 02:38:03 2014 No.5916881 >>5916506 Because it's the name of something, in this case a television program. >being this illiterate

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 04:01:11 2014 No.5917093 File: 27 KB, 268x202, latest.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Definitely the Lipshitz.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 04:04:02 2014 No.5917099 >>5916144 >kierkegaard You know he's good when even Wittgenstein says 2deep4me Makes me scared to try reading him, though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 04:08:25 2014 No.5917111 Zhuangzi

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 04:08:53 2014 No.5917114 Aristotle ofc

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 04:50:56 2014 No.5917193

>>5916058
Largest Influence: Plato
Longest unbroken paradox streak: Zeno
Most important to the modern age: Nietzsche
Biggest Boss: Camus/Morgenbesser
Greatest self-help philosopher: Aurelius
Shut the fuck up Descartes award: Hume
Holy shit you're a fucking boss at metaphysics: yeah, Kant

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 05:50:47 2014 No.5917271 >>5916058 >Late Foucault Elaborate?

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