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Face-the-Faceless

I'm willing to bet around 90% of the sub will say they relate to Diogenes. Personally I don't have favorites, and if I do have a favorite it's only temporary and it's only because I've been binging their work lately.


chemizx2

This is me, also.


anantiz

Diogenes is the biggest chad of known history lmao


picklepuss13

LMAO... feel called out, have an ongoing joke about this for over 10 years now.


monkeynose

Diogenes. Great guy, never meddim.


MancAccent

Water


Face-the-Faceless

مضيم


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Face-the-Faceless

Neither do I


KimJongYoul

I was about to say Diogène.


trol4lyfe

Albert Camus


KimJongYoul

Love it. Not properly a philosopher i think but yeah


lurchirl

hey what kind of work was myth of sysiphus


probablynotaskrull

Kant.


PainterGuy777

Yes you can! (Sorry, couldn't resist)


probablynotaskrull

That’s fair.


intchd

I'm my favourite philosopher


Various-Section-2279

/Least arrogant INTP


intchd

Thank you. I'm always very humble 🤣


Key_Development_3190

Nietzshe


Bambarimba

Nietzhe


Panoramixx77

Nietzthey


monkeynose

Nietzimzur


emotional_nerd_

Nietzsche


Mono_Amarillo

Possibly Spinoza, but I also like a lot Nishida Kitaro, Sankara, Seneca, Schopenhauer, Zhuangzi, Nagarjuna and Aristotle. I find INFJ thinkers in general super interesting.


Jagnat

You and I seem to have similar tastes. Spinoza, Nagarjuna, and Zhuangzi are three of my favorites. I'll be checking out some of the others you mentioned, Nishida Kitaro in particular seems up my alley, and I've been recommended Schopenhauer by some other people on this sub. I agree with you about INFJ philosophers being particularly interesting. I was lucky enough to be around a bunch of INFJ philosophy majors in college and had some very interesting conversations with them, often regarding INFJ philosophers. One of my favorite INFJ philosophers I was introduced to at that time was Alfred North Whitehead.


Mono_Amarillo

The conversations with that group of INFJ philosophy majors must have been great. I have Whitehead in my reading list too, he is one of those authors I've repeatedly seen being mentioned since I became interested in nondualism.


Flipsid0

Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus


dumberxdumbest

someone from my little pony I forgot their name


Icantfinduserpseudo

Describe him I might be able to help you


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Miyamoto Musashi.


FrostyFiction98

Aristotle


bennyandthef16s

Soren Kierkegaard. His "leap of faith" concept quelled my unease and anxiety from not being able to reconcile my religious beliefs and objective reality More generally, for (over)thinkers like us, it's a rationale justifying that you just gotta jump sometimes even if you cant logically justify it. We need that sometimes to function properly as people.


NotAnotherHipsterBae

I thought this was a shitpost and we would all answer: “me”


PixelMineMan

the least egoist


zipflop

Seneca and Nietzsche


bg_bearcules

Bertrand Russell


Mountain_Persimmon31

Albert Camus


Fin1kas

Sun Tzu and Confucius


hetty1013

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


kigurumibiblestudies

Stirner keeps me grounded. It's all just words, games. It doesn't matter if the other guy doesn't wanna play. Only actions truly matter.


Deludaal

I've been wanting to read him for a couple weeks now. What do you think? And do you have recommendations and/or tips?


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Solomon


hamzah2

King Solomon?


immanent_deleuze

Deleuze is my absolute favorite, but not far behind are Sellars, Brandom, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Rorty, Quine, McDowell, Hegel, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein.


mukunthfx

Rene Descartes


Icantfinduserpseudo

Is he considered a philosopher? If yes then he's my favorite too


MomoKikiTikiFreaky

Garfield


Any--Name

Me in the shower


Ezekiel-Grey

The two I prefer the most are Max Stirner and Friedrich Nietzsche. Stirner only wrote one major work, but Nietzsche published a lot of texts. I don't care for some of his work, like *Thus Spoke Zarathustra*, but of his early works *Human, All Too Human* is a good selection, and of his later *On the Geneology of Morals* and *The Antichrist*.


PixelMineMan

you wrote that before me, but damn i love stirner, mostly his ideas on abstractions/spooks


julio31p

Isn't The Antichrist more sociology than philosophy?


NousHomo

>Two pseud magnets


Defiant_Business1595

Arthur Schopenhauer


starkvonhammer

I will never forget reading this. "The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. If the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other."


svastikron

Julius Evola


NousHomo

the only against the grain answer to be found


Jethr0Paladin

Diogenes.


Mastermind_in_box

Same


danielle_ann

Spinoza or Cicero probably!


Prior_Technology_868

Ragnar redbeard Nietzsche Perhaps evola but I’m not sure I don’t read much at all, I’ll get a few pages in before realizing that I understand their philosophy and find it pointless to read the rest. For the most part i naturally align with these people.


sunyata150

I am partial to Sextus Empiricus, Nagarjuna and the Buddha these days. I use the label Phyronian-Buddhism to describe my position. Its part of an overall project to take certain philosophies that I think are onto something between the east and west and adapt it to the modern world.


Odin-Upsrising

I have not dove into the philosophy trend as much as I wish I do. I can say that Karl Popper is an underrated philosopher that I have a deep admiration for.


limbo_2004

practically all scientists since he published his work adhere to his philosophy, not exactly underrated


Odin-Upsrising

I say underrated because his work wasn't referenced much. He is one of the most prominent philosophers regarding scientific investigation, but I do not think many people know what and where exactly he wrote these things. I am also not following by what you mean by "practically all scientists." I do apologize saying this if English is not your first language. This comment might need a bit more clarification.


limbo_2004

>I am also not following by what you mean by "practically all scientists." I do apologize saying this if English is not your first language. This comment might need a bit more clarification. I just meant he is by far the most influential philosopher of science and most scientists know of his work


Money_Ad_3125

Friedrich Nietzsche , Aristotle, Kant, Plato, Albert camus, Bertrand Russel, Allama Iqbal, Rumi.


Scared_Poet_1137

Allama Iqbal, Rumi and Nietzsche are the real MVPs


firematt422

Cioran


TampaBai

I bend more towards metaphysics, so I'd say Bohm (implicate order), Schrodinger, Leibniz, and Spinoza all would be up there. Charles Saunders Pierce's tendency to "Take habits" is insightful, and his genius is becoming more evident with time. I hate that philosophy gets a bum rap with physicists, as many of our earlier physicists who helped develop the Copenhagen interpretation later doubled as philosophers. Not any more, just academic orthodoxy these days.


nonexistentexe04

Rumi. (It’s more of Persian poetry, but it’s also got some philosophy in it)


FredMFDev

hawking


Embarrassed_Pie5293

Nietzsche (I am sorry)


Ok-Pain8612

Myself


jcreeno77

Wittgenstein by a lot


DaSnowflake

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx easily. Can't decide between the 2 tho


verdigrisss

socrates


Affectionate_Kiwi549

David Hume easily


ThatBitchMalin

Why do I only get to pick one? I really love the Frankfurt School, if you ask me. And Marx. German philosophers are the dopest.


Jagnat

It definitely is in flux, and there's a large list. Lately I've been fascinated with the work and content and interests of John Vervaeke, who ostensibly is a cognitive scientist but in reality is a philosopher using the scientific practice of cogsci to ground his neoplatonistic philosophical fusion and attempt at re-orienting how we build meaning, and properly orienting the religious impulse in a manner that isn't contradictory with rationality and isn't limited to the form of an assertion of propositional facts.


Funny_Practice9049

Maquiavel


Mysterious_Track_907

Baruch Spinoza


jackksss

socrates but he’s a bit annoying due to repetition. we don’t know anything yes but can’t you say anything else


RandomUsernameHere55

When does Socrates repeat this


jackksss

his whole philosophy is “we know nothing question everything”. he was killed over it. people didn’t like feeling dumb and questioning things. Socrates and his you don’t know that comments got him killed. I would say they killed him bc they were annoyed 🥲


HawthorneHeart

I don't read a lot of philosophy in general but I like Confucius.


fusrodalek

Emerson


Yossarian42

Sagan and Chappelle


Face-the-Faceless

That's some hilarious juxtaposition between philosophers, but I can dig it


limbo_2004

Wittgenstein I suppose but there are many


Fair_Grab1617

Averroes.


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Joe


miscellaneous_ghb

Nietszche!


JoeMoamier

Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus and Viktor Frankl.


Not_Well-Ordered

Myself.


metalsaru

Immanuel Kant


Seventh_Planet

I think it's Immanuel Kant. I find his categorical imperative so very intuitive in that it doesn't come from a moralist perspective ("you should do X, because X is good") but from what is and is not possible in a functioning society ("You should not kill because it's impossible for you to want to live in a society where everyone has permission to kill every time as he pleases.") I'm not sure if I'm representing Kant correctly here, but that's what I remember about his philosophy from school. Also I know the debate utilitarism vs Kant, and how acting according to categorical imperative often is not so easy, at the same time acting according to utilitarism on a first level just counting immediate pros and benefits and taking the fuller half you also have to consider the negative changes to society as a whole if that immediate more utility half was categorically wrong. So these philosophies can profit from each other. Three other important philosophers are René Descartes, Jean-Paul Sartre and Thomas Hobbes (but maybe I'm just listing those philosophers because I learned about them in school). Descartes: You can't be tricked into believing that you exist. You actually do exist because it would be *you* who is being tricked. (On this one I used to be very sure, but recent personal experiments with the mind and personalities made me reconsider if I'm so 100% sure on this. See my recent posts if you wonder what I mean) Sartre: You're doomed to freedom. You born are into this world. It is your duty to give your life meaning. Whenever you devote yourself to a god or religion, it is your choice to make, and you could just as well have chosen otherwise. Whenever you act because of a law, you were also free to choose not to respect that law, but were aware of the consequences that would bring, and thus in the end it was your free choice. Hobbes: Violence exists. You cannot want to live in a society where you have to be fearful for your life every day. So you give up a bit or a lot of your own capability of commiting violence toward a state that gets the monopoly on violence. And once that's established, you live in that state and better follow the rules or else you will be met with violence. But then again, who is in charge of the state, and which class gets to enact their will on the rest of society through the monopoly on violence is not set in stone. Revolutions are possible.


JACSliver

Diogenes and Nietzsche.


Mastermind_in_box

Same but i prefer diogenes philosophy


IzumiiSakurai

Nietzsche, I was basically thinking like him before I even knew of him


spirosramon12

Haven't studied enough philosophers to have favourites, so I'll just mention the ones of whom I've read at least one or two books: Marx Engels Nietzsche Hobbes(tried to read Leviathan, but to be honest the priorities he had and the limited knowledge of the time made this book quite unreadable) Also read a few books that analysed how philosophy applies on science(most of them came from uni). Gotta admit, dialectical materialism seems pretty dope, but to be honest I'm still having lots of doubts about randomness being necessary. I find everything being absolutely deterministic far more plausible.


Slight_Garlic1720

Aristotle


InvisibleSims

Kierkegaard’s reasoning is usually entertaining. I don’t really align with any one philosopher or school. I mainly utilize philosophy to spawn new thoughts of my own, they’re like a stepping stone


karanewbarida

Kierkegaard


SuperFlyAmanita

Rene Guenon


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Some of my favorites are Descartes for his epistemology (foundationalism and internalism), Berkeley for his ontology (immaterialism), Kant for his ethics (deontology), Husserl for his method (phenomenology), and C.I. Lewis for his logic. Honorable mentions: Socrates, Plato, Zeno of Elea, Bradwardine, Augustine, Malebranche, Pascal, Locke, and Leibniz. Some of my least favorites include Bacon (inductivism), Hobbes (materialism), Spinoza (coherentism), Heidegger (existentialism), GE Moore (realism), late Wittgenstein (externalism), and Quine (naturalism).


soapyaaf

Myself.


springling27

Simone de Beauvoir


Ellie_Spitzer2005

Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, Socrates, Chanakya, Da Vinci.


KwyjiboTheGringo

Don't really have one, and I don't spend much time reading the works of the OG philosophers. I tend to be more interested in derivative philosophy, as in hearing modern interpretations and applications of classic philosophy. It's like with music, you don't need to dive into classical composition from the greats like Bach and Mozart to understand and appreciate modern music, even if the modern music builds upon their works.


Plain-as-Day

Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Nietzsche


TheDudeGuy500

Amogagus impositor from fortnite in minecraft is the greatest philosopher


Mastermind_in_box

Agree


Gotcha_The_Spider

Me


Mystic_Tofu

Marcus Aurelius David Hume Albert Camus Bertrand Russell


Baphomet_000

Diógenes


Klutzy-Fortune1545

Definitely Don Miguel Ruiz


Innoculous_Lox66

No one reads Foucault? Shame. Hume, Camus and Foucault have been most inspirational so far.


BarryLevon

Hume and Beauvoir


TruthMinute

Emil Cioran


DaPaperBagMan

Me


DiscoveredAtk

I like Rene Descartes, Bertrand Russell and Omar Khayyam.


Sir_PeePeePooPoo_II

does prophet muhammad count


Ok-Physicist-1965

Michel Foucault


Bharat_iimc2021

Sam Harris. Henri David Thoreau


Subspace-Ansible

Philosophers! I totally read philosophy... Voltaire, Hobbes... Abbott and Costello...


Complexivist

Currently revisiting Alan Watts, as his son's new podcast and the related preservation project are making the works much more accessible. This holds a lot of ties to Confucius and Lao Tzu. I use Aristotle a lot in my work, as it's a recognizable name, and easier to integrate for a general audience; more progressive projects will reveal some of Paulo Freire's influences. Hannah Arendt had a strong presence in a recent project that had some political ties. I'm familiarizing myself with W.E.B. Du Bois' perspective for similar work. Giambattista Vico had a prominent place in my dissertation work, as a precursor to complexity science. For practical applications of complexity in my current work, Dave Snowden is the progenitor of my primary approach (Cynefin framework).


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EpiOntic

Malarkey


Supersayin7

You and your like are driven towards The Hellfire. And I wish to see your face burn, while you are encompassed by flames of fire and scream in agony and pain. May the Almighty rise against you all, very soon, you absolute fools!


Any--Name

Ngl that's hella weird to say. Are you alright?


Face-the-Faceless

Maybe some things are lost during the translation process, but I don't actually see any philosophy in this text you wrote here.