“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence." ― Immanuel Kant
"Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. Each actual occasion contributes to the circumstances of its origin additional formative elements deepening its own peculiar individuality. Consciousness is only the last and greatest of such elements by which the selective character of the individual obscures the external totality from which it originates and which it embodies. An actual individual, of such higher grade, has truck with the totality of things by reason of its sheer actuality; but it has attained its individual depth of being by a selective emphasis limited to its own purposes. The task of philosophy is to recover the totality obscured by the selection." - Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
"What we should do, I suggest, is to give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human; that it is mixed with our errors, our prejudices, our dreams, and our hopes; that all we can do is to grope for truth even though it be beyond our reach. We may admit that our groping is often inspired, but we must be on our guard against the belief, however deeply felt, that our inspiration carries any authority, divine or otherwise. If we thus admit that there is no authority beyond the reach of criticism to be found within the whole province of our knowledge, however far it may have penetrated into the unknown, then we can retain, without danger, the idea that truth is beyond human authority. And we must retain it. For without this idea there can be no objective standards of inquiry; no criticism of our conjectures; no groping for the unknown; no quest for knowledge." - Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations
So, who are your favorite philosophers?
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thanks
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thank you man, and i don't really have a favoutite philosopher? i guess i'd never really thought about it
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many thanks~ <3
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Thanks.. and I have no idea.
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Thank you!
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thx! =)
Friedrich Nietzsche, I think. And he was not nazi as many people think. His philosophy is very interesting.
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My biggest problem with Nietzsche is his lack of cohesion between his various writings. Though his writing isn't explicitly nazi in ideology, you can see how his notions of Will to Power and the Übermensch can go to justifying authoritarian social policies.
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gotta go with plato. dude invented atlantis
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lol. as the quote goes, "all philosophy is plato's footnotes"
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Paulos
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acutally i dont like philosophy at all, but thanks for the giveaway :)
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You should read Wittgenstein. He argues that philosophy is an issue of linguistic error - the only reason philosophical problems exist is because our languages are flawed and allow these syntactically correct but meaningless statements to be possible.
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My favorite philosopher is Batman.
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Yeah.. I like him too.
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ty
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thanks mate.
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