cactusflower
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charlotte_
Arcanist
- Mar 12, 2023
- 435
Fyodor Dotoyevski (I hope I type that right) I think. I especially like this quote of his:
Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as though that were so necessary—that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. (from Notes from Underground)
Honorable mention to Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche too.
Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as though that were so necessary—that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. (from Notes from Underground)
Honorable mention to Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche too.
I added these to my reading table.
Cambridge Edition of:
Descartes - Meditation on First Philosophy
Nietzsche - Daybreak
Cambridge Edition of:
Descartes - Meditation on First Philosophy
Nietzsche - Daybreak
mistyZombie
Member
- May 22, 2023
- 5
read the plague it is amazing. also myth of sisyphus is one of his monumental works
this probably sounds silly but I would like to say myself and random people that I've interacted with overtime in my life
talking about ethics with friends can always be fun, funny, and interesting although none of the group/your friend group may be educated in such topics or subjects
talking about ethics with friends can always be fun, funny, and interesting although none of the group/your friend group may be educated in such topics or subjects
carac
"and if this is the end, i am glad i met you."
- May 27, 2023
- 1,113
CW36
➕〰️➰
- Jul 23, 2023
- 839
Friedrich Nietzsche (Germany), Leo Tolstoy (Russia), Albert Camus (France), Philipp Mainländer (Germany), plus a few others.
enough of this
Specialist
- Jun 4, 2023
- 382
Andro_USYD
Artificially happy on medicine
- Jul 1, 2023
- 136
Plauto, Aristotle and Socrates, very rational people from a long time ago who've to this day been the basis for philosophy. Very intelligent, Inspiring
Albert Camus, Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ludwig Wittgeinstein, Chomsky, Paolo Freire, Frantz Fannon, Hannah Arendt, among some others…
cosifantutti
Student
- Aug 27, 2023
- 184
EndofSmallSanctuary
deadboy
- Aug 30, 2023
- 13
SovietSuicide
Member
- Jan 8, 2022
- 99
Plato for his allegory of the cave. 3 people living ina cave all their lives only seeing and associating shadows with what life experiences are. Their world is only in that perspective, and makes the simulation theory for believable to me
Diogenes of Sinope and Arthur Schopenhauer!
Omg. I am excited to see Diogenes. Because of his simple action based ideas that I can live on lentils and water alone mostly.To this man, I owe my understanding of dignity and virtue.
Diogenes, the most honest cynic.
He is an influential figure for me.
DEATH IS FREEDOM
Death is the solution to unsolvable problems.
- Sep 13, 2023
- 607
executioner1983
death is sustainable
- Oct 2, 2023
- 79
R_N
-Memento Mori-
- Dec 3, 2019
- 1,442
leloyon
I'll see you in the Wired.
- Feb 4, 2023
- 1,114
Max Stirner, Nick Land, Philipp Mainlander and Dostoyevsky.
AAT
Member
- Oct 21, 2023
- 18
FRUSTRATED MIND
Student
- Oct 2, 2023
- 172
AllCatsAreGrey
they/he
- Sep 27, 2023
- 281
I have a harem of philosophers that I appreciate. Big current favorites are Gilles Deleuze and Baruch Spinoza.
Oneness
The eternal awaits
- Oct 23, 2023
- 118
BlackMoon
Peace-seeker
- Oct 30, 2023
- 190
I feel almost bad saying this cause he's too popular but Peter singer
Otherwise R M Hare and Christine Koorsgard.
All three discuss a lot of practical issues including singer's (controversially) on euthanasia
Otherwise R M Hare and Christine Koorsgard.
All three discuss a lot of practical issues including singer's (controversially) on euthanasia
sserafim
brighter than the sun, that’s just me
- Sep 13, 2023
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DarkRange55
I am Skynet
- Oct 15, 2023
- 1,855
I would have to mention a very large percentage.
But as far as a few to mention - Nietzsche might be my favorite.
Plato with his theory of forms and allegory of the cave. Aristotle who was a pupil of Plato and first distinguished physics from metaphysics and made a number of inroads including the nature of logic and empirical sciences. Plotinus and the neoplatonists. Descartes who came up with his idea of Cartesian mind body dualism and what was the first most successful mechanistic approach to physical reality with coordinate systems and his analytic geometry. Leibniz had monadology which basically says that reality consists of monads or coherent quanta that are a little bit similar to Descartes who had these mechanistic corpuscles which he considered reality to be composed. And from this monadology, he believed that eternal universal truths are accessible to reason using two main principles which were the principle of contradiction (a proposition that has to be either true or false, can't be both or neither). The principle of sufficient reason which is that nothing happens without a sufficient reason. (In reality it takes considerably more logic than those two principles to build a theory of reality).
Charles Darwin (I consider Darwin a philosopher), Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein (Einstein is widely regarded as a physicist, but his work goes so deeply into the fundamental nature of reality that he can also be read as a metaphysical philosopher. Marcus Aralias is worth mentioning.
But as far as a few to mention - Nietzsche might be my favorite.
Plato with his theory of forms and allegory of the cave. Aristotle who was a pupil of Plato and first distinguished physics from metaphysics and made a number of inroads including the nature of logic and empirical sciences. Plotinus and the neoplatonists. Descartes who came up with his idea of Cartesian mind body dualism and what was the first most successful mechanistic approach to physical reality with coordinate systems and his analytic geometry. Leibniz had monadology which basically says that reality consists of monads or coherent quanta that are a little bit similar to Descartes who had these mechanistic corpuscles which he considered reality to be composed. And from this monadology, he believed that eternal universal truths are accessible to reason using two main principles which were the principle of contradiction (a proposition that has to be either true or false, can't be both or neither). The principle of sufficient reason which is that nothing happens without a sufficient reason. (In reality it takes considerably more logic than those two principles to build a theory of reality).
Charles Darwin (I consider Darwin a philosopher), Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein (Einstein is widely regarded as a physicist, but his work goes so deeply into the fundamental nature of reality that he can also be read as a metaphysical philosopher. Marcus Aralias is worth mentioning.
DarkRange55
I am Skynet
- Oct 15, 2023
- 1,855
Epicurus is also good. I'd be curious to know who people think the best *living* philosophers are… 
Philosophy still has a place on the edges of science.
Part of today's metaphysics will become tomorrow's science (e.g., the nature of the omniverse, the meaning of quantum mechanics, the nature of consciousness).
A few parts are borderline – will we understand why there is anything rather than nothing?
Anything beyond that will become (or remain) philosophy or religion.
Philosophy still has a place on the edges of science.
Part of today's metaphysics will become tomorrow's science (e.g., the nature of the omniverse, the meaning of quantum mechanics, the nature of consciousness).
A few parts are borderline – will we understand why there is anything rather than nothing?
Anything beyond that will become (or remain) philosophy or religion.
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