Interesting Philosophers?

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Thanks for all the responses! I been looking up some of the philosophers you guys posted and found many of them to be very interesting. I'm going to continue reading about some of these philosophers..maybe find some of their books to read.

Again..thank you!

 

Allan Watts
Socrates
Aristotle
Plato
Confuscious?
Terrence Mckenna
Rene Descartes
Immanuel Kant

Allan Watts interests me a lot and I know it's selfish but it would be cool if you did it on him and taught me some more about him. He has some buddhism heavily influencing his philosophy though.

 

Thanks man! I will definitely look further into him. I already did some reading about Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato from my book earlier. All make some great points which interest me.

 

camus
thoreau

 

http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/

squashed philosophers

 

I'm glad you're here to tell us these things... Take the Professor in back and plug him into the hyperdrive!..

Han Solo ...

 

interesting philosophers are best avoided . . .

 

G.I. Gurdjieff

 

lol Han solo is the man.

 

Thanks for that link Chapter13. Was very helpful

 

very welcome... good luck with your class

 

love alan watts..the way of zen was my first read by him...

 

Nietzsche is certainly interesting, though he's not exactly a typical philosopher. David Hume is a very interesting (and slightly more mainstream) philosopher than Nietzsche; an empiricist. If you're interested in rationalism, Descartes (already mentioned) is a fine place to start.

Voltaire is also great and interesting in many ways; read Candide.

 

Two of my favorites!

Nietzsche was definately an interesting man with an incredible body of work. He was easily one of the most startling thinkers of all time.


Bertrand Russell is also a fantastic philosopher.

 

You can't really go wrong with Plato or Aristotle considering they're the foundation of Western society.
Personally though I think you should do your report on Philosoraptor.

 

Is there anybody else to talk about, other than Friedrich Nietzsche!?

 

Yes. But none are as cool!

 

ya-maan!

 

Methinks not.