who are your favorite philosophers?

[thinksweet]

i admire picasso, i awe nietzsche, i adore einstein, i enjoy dali.

[tunis]

Hello, I just joined the forum. I like the British Enlightenment. John Locke would be number one.

I also like John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson, Joeseph Priestly and others from that period (mid 17th thru mid 19th century).

I also have a bit of a taste for Jewish philosophers from the middle ages (e.g. Moses Maimonides).

[detrop]

I like the dude with the big moustache and the communist guy probably the most. I also like that danish guy with the hunched back and the jewish dude who got in serious trouble with the religious clergy in amsterdam way back in the day.

The french guy with the lazy eye is good too.

And finally I like that guy from the vienna circle who had the big head and short temper. No not Russell, the other dude.

[Impenitent]

crazy horse and sam colt

-Imp

[Obw]

aristotle, scotus, quine, hume, frege, popper…

[Xunzian]

Tu Weiming, Van Norden, Mary Tucker, Yi Yulgok, Kaibara Ekken, Xun Zi, and Zhuang Zi balanced by a hodgepodge of other occidental philosophers (Locke comes to mind, as well as aspects of Popper, Plato, Aquinas, and Marx).

[detrop]

Tu Weiming, Van Norden, Mary Tucker, Yi Yulgok, Kaibara Ekken, Xun Zi, and Zhuang Zi

Jesus Christ dude, nobody knows those people!

Don’t you know any normal philosophers?

By the way…I had some yi yulgok once at a chinese buffet. It was honey-mustard if I recall correctly. Good stuff.

[Drift]

By philosopher,do you mean anyone who was known as a philosopher,or someone philosophical that did not consider himself a philosopher? would that count?

[Xunzian]

@détrop

Tu Weiming, Van Norden, Mary Tucker, Yi Yulgok, Kaibara Ekken, Xun Zi, and Zhuang Zi

Jesus Christ dude, nobody knows those people!

Don’t you know any normal philosophers?

By the way…I had some yi yulgok once at a chinese buffet. It was honey-mustard if I recall correctly. Good stuff.

Which is a pity. Certainly Zhu Xi and Zhuang Zi ought be as familiar to philosophers as Aquinas and Nietzche.

Detrop,
It’s funny, because Yulgok is obviously a Korean name. Certainly not Chinese, by any stretch of the imagination

[Uniqor]

Xunzian, I meant to ask you this a long time ago. Are you Chinese?

[Tristan]

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Flava Flav, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sartre, Shakespeare[?],

[NiccolA (Niccolò)]

sartre, marx, thoreau, goldman, kierkegaard, de bevoir, bentham.

[Xunzian]

@Uniqor

Xunzian, I meant to ask you this a long time ago. Are you Chinese?

I’m PoR’s worst nightmare – a half-caste.

I’m sure Freud would have some very interesting things to say about me.

[Ierrellus]

Wm. Blake, Goethe, Nietzsche, Aldous Huxley, John of the Cross, Meister Eckhard, Ghandi, MLK, Alan Watts, Buckminster Fuller, Frances DeSales, Simone Weil, Matthew Fox, Chardin, Buddha, Chief Joseph, Chief Seatle–just to skim the surface.

[Uniqor]

Xunzian, why not post a photograph? You must look amazing, in any case.

I want to get to know some specimen before I set up the planned GGL, Genetical Globlisation Laboratory, in honor of Friedrich Nietzsche, based on his theoretical groundings in the Dawn,

http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/srp/arts/HCWK.html

In the Dawn [¡±206], Nietzsche persists in his gigantic scheme for a future mixed breed and considers the advantages of an ingredient of Chinese blood" (p.293).

I actually read the aphorism partially quoted myself. It was a future generation breeding plan for producing Overman-friendly products. He named and analysed a European mix, including the French, Germans, Jews, and he added that “a drop of Chinese blood will do good”.

Elsewhere in The Will to Power, for instance, he groups the Chinese not only with the Jews, for whom he expressed some admiration, but also with his favorites, the Frenchmen, as all sharing the quality of “spirit”; for he maintains that"the Chinese is a more successful type [of human animal], namely more durable, than the European."

But we are afraid if, as a result, we produce more Kants:

Aside from reading, his only contact with anything Chinese would have been through the relatively large minority of Oriental merchants who lived in Königsberg.[5] This did not stop him from writing about Chinese philosophy and culture on several occasions.

Once again, it is necessary to emphasize that Kant’s secret sympathy for Swedenborg, and the subtle influence of Swedenborg’s ideas on Kant’s mature thinking, do not imply that Kant held the opinion that ghosts exist in this world. Even though he probably never experi­enced the slightest fear that he was being haunted by the ghosts of his ancestors, it is generally accepted that Kant held some sort of private belief in a world of real spirits. That doesn’t make him Chinese (see note 21); but it does bring his general world view much more closely in line with the traditional Chinese world view than it is normally believed to be. In other words, we can say Kant was “Chinese”, to the extent that he felt a strong sense of filial piety and believed in a world inhabited by spiritual beings;

Chinese Kant-scholarship has long recognized a basic similarity between Kant and the major school of Chinese philosophy, neo-Confucianism

For example, one of the most influential Chinese Kant-scholars in this century, at least among Neo-Confucians, is Mou Tsang San. In addition to translating and commenting extensively on the first Critique, Mou has put forward a widely discussed argument to the effect that Neo-Confucian philosophy fills a gap in Western philosophy left by Kant’s rejection of the possibility of intellectual intuition

By the way, regarding Pinnacle of Reason, you need not worry.

I’m PoR’s worst nightmare – a half-caste.

Not necessarily. If your other half is nonwhite, he wouldn’t mind. He promotes the Aryan race, but admit having a few Jewish friends while posting under an avarta of Hitler with the username Himler.

He’s harmless and plenty fun. His only nightmare is that he is invited to have sex with a woman. The man is not totally without shame. He is just trying to rememdy and divert his problems by preaching and racialising. A kind of anti social sainthood, dark messiah complex.

He’ll quit as soon as he gets laid. But that probably suggests he’ll never quit. He resides in Australia. If one day he should be exiled and hide in America, you go seek him out and deliver him back to Mrs Murdoc. She’ll make him understand.

GGL, my future laboratory, will employ PoR, for inter speciesial experiments… I can gather plenty evidence from his posts here, for my human right lawyer to argue in court why PoR deserves to be locked up with female chimpaneez (named Porgy or something) in the laboratory. But we’ll release him as soon as Porgy does her job. You can’t expect PoR to be a good father to anything.

[James_No_2]

[size=92]Epictetus[/size], [size=125]Spinoza[/size], [size=109]Leibniz[/size], [size=92]Nietzsche[/size], [size=142]Bergson[/size], [size=142]Whitehead[/size], [size=75]Foucault[/size], [size=167]Deleuze[/size], [size=125]Davidson[/size]

James

[someoneisatthedoor]

Epicurus, Marx, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Orwell, Stingray Timmins

[nano-bug]

I like alan watts and I’m pretty sure, yup, he likes me.

[Faust]

Socrates/Hume/Hegel/Kierkegaard/Nietzsche/Russell/Ayer/Rawls/myself

[Xunzian]

Ohhh, thank you for the essay.

In all honesty, the similarities had simply passed me by! This puts Li Zehou in a whole new light for me, thank you.

Though it isn’t terribly surprising that I missed it, Mou Tsang San is a Yangmingist if ever there was one and I’m not a huge fan of the School of the Mind (though they do bring up some good points every now and again).

Time to check out Kant again.

As for the race issue – well, I always understood PoR to be more for each race staying within his its own racial group. Regardless of one’s intrepretation of PoR’s “philosophy” I would not be kosher in PoR’s book.

Heck, my father is barely acceptable to my grandparents. But, they do make it a point to mention that he is definately not Japanese, so it could have been worse. They also don’t have terribly progressive views on Koreans or African Americans . . . So I think it was pretty much going to be a lose-lose no matter what.