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Question: Which philosopher has influenced you the most!?
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Can I say my dad!?

He's not famous, but he is a philosopher!.

edit: Eric, yup!. He talks constantly about so and so and everyone is trapped at the dinner table and we feel like our heads are going to explode!. It's wonderful!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

you're kidding!? the mainstream pushers of b!.s!. of the eternal universe they think they are the foundation of!?

nah, i'd rather "blow my own horn" than play their rhetorical nonsense!.

death came their own door didn't it after all!.!. no matter!.


same is same does!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Roy Masters at www!.fhu!.com

I wouldn't call him a philosopher though!. Doing the job of one but something more!. Specifically, more practical!. Self-improvement that actually works!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Nietzsche and Camus

Nietzsche was just the complete badass of individualists

Camus seemed to have a grasp of reality unlike any other

Both hated nihilism and tried to counter it by any means nessicary!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

None!. I'm!.!.!. somewhat immune to outside influence!.

I tend to find that my thoughts have been thought by existentialist philosophers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi

http://www!.arunachala-ramana!.org/downloa!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

G Nichiren Daishonin through his modern interpreter, Daisaku IkedaWww@QuestionHome@Com

Nietzsche

C!.S!. LewisWww@QuestionHome@Com

Hume
Hegel
Sartre
Bergson
Baudrillard
Wittgenstein
SchopenhauerWww@QuestionHome@Com

Foucault
Derrida
Hegel
Lacan
Jesus
KierkegaardWww@QuestionHome@Com

history
most names are there !.!.lolWww@QuestionHome@Com

Sartre
Nietzsche
Heidegger
Camus
KuhnWww@QuestionHome@Com

Wittgenstein, w/o a doubt!. I love philosophy and I love philosophy of language and his focus on how language affects the concepts we discuss in philosophy is fascinating to me!.

Thomas Aquinas intrigues me, but you asked about influence!.!.!.

Next would be J!. S!. Mill!. Then S!. Kierkegaard, I guess!.

So many to pick from!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hume!.

I'm not that widely read in philosophy, I only know the "highlights"!.

I'm just too much of an empiricist!.

Edit: Ella, really!? That's cool!. Thumb's up for "Dad"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Friedrich Nietzsche and Hume, total bamfsWww@QuestionHome@Com

mr chomsky
of courseWww@QuestionHome@Com