Philosophers...

[kidmoon]

Just vote for who you think is most deserving of the "Greatest" title. And, if you feel someone mighty important was neglected, feel free to add your vote in a reply.

Enjoy!

[Katuschka]

Hermes Trismegistos

[zosodude13]

Your forgetting...

Rousseau

The fist line of The Social Contract:

"Men are born free, but everywhere they go they are in chains"

absolutly brilliant!!!

[Bruni_Tangerine]

I admire Democrito,because with his theoris I understood things like athomos;The kind of life....

[bigstickbonzo]

The Allegory of the Cave is one of the simplest and most brilliant stories ever written.

[madison]

i voted for Socrates.

one of my favorite quotes:

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

of course you can substitute in husband

[Scarlett]

I never heard of some of them.

[JAG]

John Maynard Keynes.

[Hetware]

Very few people even understand Kant. He was way ahead of his time. He got my vote.

[Lilith]

Sorry to have to be the first person to post a reply quoting Monty Python's immortal "Philosopher's Song"!

http://www.ephilosopher.com/article21.html

Definitely best bellowed loudly after several bevvies! (Is that one 'v' or two? I'm not sure ... !)

[leddy]

i voted for Socrates.

one of my favorite quotes:

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

of course you can substitute in husband

he gets my vote for that quote !!!

[kidmoon]

Very few people even understand Kant. He was way ahead of his time. He got my vote.

The Critique of Pure Reason is the most challenging piece of philosophy I've ever read; but it's also one of the most rewarding... Nevertheless, I voted for Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling is profound.

[Big Klu]

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha or Buddhadasa Bhikkhu.

[Footsteps of Dawn]

Your forgetting...

Rousseau

The fist line of The Social Contract:

"Men are born free, but everywhere they go they are in chains"

absolutly brilliant!!!

I agree! I'm taking a whole class on him next quarter.

[FuzzyMerkin]

Terry Pratchett:

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"

Genius.

[Stargazer]

I have many philisophers that I like.

But I don't have one in particular that I base my life on

or like everything of.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

[DeepBlackZeppelin]

I appreciate philosophy, but I hardly know of any.

That's just disgraceful.[src] But, I do plan on taking philosophy classes in college, just because it just interests me so much.

Edited December 30, 2007 by DeepBlackZeppelin

[Black Dawg]

I. Kant figure out what this is all about.

In the Immortal words of the Black Dawg -- "I stink thefore you know I am here."

[Guest housesoftheholy]

Dug this up...

I voted for Kant. Besides defining the Enlightenment period, his treatises on aesthetics probably cure some forms of malignant cancer.

After reading tracts of Critique of Judgment, I ran outside and decked some sorostitutes. Not very humanitarian of me, unless you consider the betterment of the human race feasible through de-Ugg booting and de-North Face jacketing peroxide blondes. And I'm guessing it might be after all.

[Virginia]

I spent a lot of time studying French existentialists/absurdists (Camus, Sartre, Beckett, Ionesco...) in college. I can't say I favor them, but I could probably still write a paper on them 25 years later.

[kirchzep27]

As i was an -american lit major. I like the style of -emerson, kerouac, dickinson and others. I think there is a good angle, in comparison to the rest of the world. Their not philosophers, their writers. but i just wanted to quickly chime in, as this thread popped up tonight.

[Evster2012]

Sorry to have to be the first person to post a reply quoting Monty Python's immortal "Philosopher's Song"!

http://www.ephilosopher.com/article21.html

Definitely best bellowed loudly after several bevvies! (Is that one 'v' or two? I'm not sure ... !)

Dammit Lilith! You beat me to it!!

[Del Zeppnile]

JOHN LOCKE

[Spalove]

Marcus Aurelius

[wanna be drummer]

Economically Adam Smith

Other than that, I'd say St. Thomas Aquinas