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Who are the most imaginative philosophers or non-fiction writers of the canon? Plato, Emerson, Montaigne, Freud, and Nietzsche are some of my favorites. I'm very ambivalent towards philosophers who have classification systems and categories which they use to catalogue aspects of human experience, like Locke and Kant for instance. If their works aren't open to an infinite amount of creative readings and responses, there isn't much to take away from them, to be honest. What do you think?

>> No.21363363

>>21363287
Spinoza, Machiavelli and Darwin
Simple as

>> No.21363364

>>21363287
Try asking google.

>> No.21363380

>>21363287
>Plato
>nonfiction
He was the first speculative fiction writer

While perhaps not super imaginative, I'd recommend reading Thomas Browne and Robert Burton

>> No.21364483

Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard seem like the obvious ones based on the names you gave. Marshall McCluhan, Northrop Frye, Guy Debord. Schlegel's aphorisms might be interesting to you.