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Question: Who is your favorite philosopher/s and why!?
Feel free to add particular texts that may have changed your life!.

I would say:

-Arthur Schopenhauer's "The World as Will & Representation", "Parerga and Paralipomena", and "Essays & Aphorisms"

-Karl Marx's "Kapital" and his and Engel's "Communist Manifesto"

-Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I like your choices - Western as they are!.

Nagarjuna (150-250 ce) is a favorite for me because he previsions so many Westerners!. Nagarjuna describes findings of modern physics very accurately!. A direct parent of Marx, if you ask me!.!.!.!.

"Nagarjuna's philosophy represents something of a watershed not only in the history of Indian philosophy but in the history of philosophy as a whole, as it calls into questions certain philosophical assumptions so easily resorted to in our attempt to understand the world!. Among these assumptions are the existence of stable substances, the linear and one-directional movement of causation, the atomic individuality of persons, the belief in a fixed identity or selfhood, and the strict separations between good and bad conduct and the blessed and fettered life!. All such assumptions are called into fundamental question by Nagarjuna's unique perspective which is grounded in the insight of emptiness (sunyata), a concept which does not mean "non-existence" or "nihility" (abhava), but rather the lack of autonomous existence (nihsvabhava)!. Denial of autonomy according to Nagarjuna does not leave us with a sense of metaphysical or existential privation, a loss of some hoped-for independence and freedom, but instead offers us a sense of liberation through demonstrating the interconnectedness of all things, including human beings and the manner in which human life unfolds in the natural and social worlds!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sir karl Popper!.

Because he explained our open society!.
And in doing so,he found one of the most profound modern teachings in this our Darwinian era;that is, how criticism should work in education,and thus the wider society(and could only work in an open-and-not-closed education/group/society)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I am my own favorite philosopher!. Because Im always right about everything I say!. In fact, I cant even think of a single thing that I dont know!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sigmund Freud
I can relate to his explanations of the ego, id and superego
It puts human behavior into a different viewWww@QuestionHome@Com

Nicolas Flammel!. He was a wizard/alchemist and I go to Hogwarts!.Www@QuestionHome@Com