# who was the greatest philosopher and what did he teach?
**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282
**Category:** Philosophy
**Created:** [January 6, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282 "2006-01-06T04:35:22Z")
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### Author:  [@Blindseer](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Blindseer)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/41 "2006-01-14T16:40:55Z")
š² wow, after reading through most of this, i dontā think iāve seen one Plato. Well to me Plato was the greatest philosopher, closely followed by Socrates and then Aristotle. The main reason why iām not a big fan of Aristotle is because heās an Empiricist and i donāt agree with the senses, i love Plato for many reasons but is Rationalist thinking is a better answer then Aristotleās. Well iām still pretty new to all of this though, so who knows my opinion might change, but from all that i have read, Plato is the best š
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### Author:  [@someemofag](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/someemofag)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/42 "2006-01-15T01:09:38Z")
> [@Blindseer](#):
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> i dontā think iāve seen one Plato.
I donāt know but I think this might be because most people have moved on beyond Plato. His ideas are, wellā¦ Silly.
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### Author:  [@Blindseer](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Blindseer)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/43 "2006-01-15T03:01:07Z")
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> I donāt know but I think this might be because most people have moved on beyond Plato. His ideas are, wellā¦ Silly.
Silly? š² Could you elaborate on this? Do you mean the idea of the āFormsā? or something else? 
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### Author:  [@Drift](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Drift)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/44 "2006-01-17T02:34:45Z")
if jesus isnāt a philosopher,(iām not implying he is) than i have nothing more to say on this thread. ever.
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### Author:  [@SA\_mkhya](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/SA_mkhya)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/45 "2006-01-17T04:59:12Z")
> [@xx00002](#):
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> All philosophers are great according to the worldview that views them as great. I personally believe that there has been no thinker greater than Shankaracharya (or Adi Shankar). Please google his name now! š¶
Sorry, but Advaita Vedanta does not make sense.
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### Author:  [@Dan1](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Dan1)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/46 "2006-01-17T23:09:43Z")
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> who was the greatest philosopher and what did he teach?
I want to be the āgreatest philosopherā [if possible], and I wish to teach propriety of human existence. The structure and order of will/desire.
The value of [individual] people is so complex and unique that it is hard to judge who is ābestā. World leaders have the most important jobs on earth. My favorite sorts of people are medical scientists and convervative work/power technology researchers.
I am for the best preservative/concervative philosophers. š
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### Author:  [@dan020350](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/dan020350)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/47 "2006-01-20T17:55:08Z")
Some of you guyz, just makes me laugh.
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### Author:  [@Fabiano](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Fabiano)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/48 "2006-01-21T15:59:26Z")
> [@dan020350](#):
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> Some of you guyz, just makes me laugh.
Since you cannot take all of them very seriously, laughing is all you can do. =D\> =D\> =D\>
the greatest philosopher will be the one who proove definitively that no man is āgreatā, even if he can āunderstandā his time better than other men do.
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### Author:  [@Nick\_A](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Nick_A)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/49 "2006-01-21T16:48:19Z")
His name is not the issue but he taught that āWhen it rains, the pavement becomes wet.ā
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### Author:  [@Alexistentialism](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Alexistentialism)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/50 "2006-01-23T00:46:06Z")
iām a 2nd vote for aristotle.
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### Author:  [@Mucius\_Scevola](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Mucius_Scevola)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/51 "2006-01-23T12:46:33Z")
> [@Nick\_A](#):
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> His name is not the issue but he taught that āWhen it rains, the pavement becomes wet.ā
Are you talking of Judgements of experience, the ones who arise as result to empirical observation but are necessarily universal, due to the a prioric categories of our intelect, e.g. causality and analogy ? In that case, the name is Kant, although I am pretty sure that his example was about the sun warming the stones when it comes out.
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### Author:  [@Dave\_H](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Dave_H)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/52 "2006-01-27T15:00:24Z")
Ayn Rand.
She was the first to link metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics and economics in a truly rational, practical, life-affirming way.
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### Author:  [@W.C](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/W.C)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/53 "2006-01-28T04:24:35Z")
> [@Xunzian](#):
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> Egyptians do rock.
Arr! Yeaā should feast yeh eyes upon a treasure meān me mateys found last full moon! Tablets oā Emerald! Arr! Tablets oā some character named Thoth. They be in some queer language, but Iād bet some learned types might be able teh decipher it, arr, for a price at least!
[crystalinks.com/emerald.html](http://www.crystalinks.com/emerald.html)
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### Author:  [@dan020350](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/dan020350)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/who-was-the-greatest-philosopher-and-what-did-he-teach/8282/54 "2006-07-04T18:52:13Z")
temporaliy resurrected
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> Who is the greatest philosopher?
One who has not only many followers but also including those that are great philosphers, thus the father of philosopher. Who is he then? The origin? Thales, which scholars proclaim he was he first philosoper?
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