Who would you say the most uplifting/depressing/humorous philosophers are? Uplifting: Kierkergaard, Camus Depressing: Cioran Humorous: Diogenes, Stirner, Schopenhauer

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Anonymous Tue Apr 12 23:00:08 2016 No.7916879 [Reply] [Original]

Who would you say the most uplifting/depressing/humorous philosophers are?

Uplifting: Kierkergaard, Camus
Depressing: Cioran
Humorous: Diogenes, Stirner, Schopenhauer

Anonymous Wed Apr 13 00:42:22 2016 No.7917247
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>>7916879
Ecce Homo was the most humorous philosophy book I've ever read. I guess it's more autobiographical than true philosophy but Nietzsche was a master of the meme.

On the Genealogy of Morality strongly presaged the concept of the meme as well. Nietzsche also gave a woman a toad as a gift, it was probably a smug one as well.

Sometimes I think he was a time traveler or something.

Anonymous Wed Apr 13 00:50:14 2016 No.7917271

>>7917247
Nietzsche was despicably German, in the sense of German which he took great lengths to bellow. The only value in his writing is the early hysteria for its poetic sensibility a la Goethe and its corrosive nihilism on the decrepit Western philosophical forms.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 00:50:54 2016 No.7917272 >>7916879 I haven't read much but Voltaire was pretty funny.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 00:58:34 2016 No.7917301 >>7916879 I think I'm the only person that finds sections of Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration to be hilarious.

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