← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Hilaire Belloc
Thread ID: 10707 | Posts: 16 | Started: 2003-10-24
2003-10-24 07:40 | User Profile
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My results:
2003-10-24 07:49 | User Profile
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At home, in my office, I have a giant portrait of the great Saxon philosopher, Nietzsche, on the wall. I also a have a heavy, bronze bust (cost me a little fortune) of Voltaire.
2003-10-24 10:20 | User Profile
Aquinas and Nietzsche... hmmm...
2003-10-24 19:40 | User Profile
No Kierkegaard?
A person can be a great logician and become immortal on account of his merit, yet prostitute himself by assuming that the logical is the existential, and that the principle of contradiction is abrogated in existence because it is undeniably abrogated in logic, while in fact existence is the very separation which prevents the flow of pure logic. Hegel may very well be world-historical as a thinker, but one thing he has clearly lacked: he was not brought up in the Christian religion, or only moderately. For just as the person brought up to believe in God learns that, even if every misfortune fell to his lot in life and he never had a happy day, he must simply hold out, so also the person brought up in Christianity learns to regard this as eternal truth and to look on every difficulty as simply a spiritual trial. But so far from Hegel's concept of Christianity bearing the imprint of this childlike primitivity of inwardness, his treatment of faith - e. g. of what it is to believe - is nothing but pure silliness [corrected from "stupidity"]. I am not afraid to say this. If I presumed to say of the most simple-minded man alive that he is too stupid to become a Christian, that would be a matter between myself and God, and woe unto me! But to say this of Hegel remains only a matter between myself and Hegel, and a few Hegelians at most, for the stupidity is of another kind; and to say this is no blasphemy against the God who created man in his image, and consequently against every man, and against the God who took human form in order to save all, the most simple-minded as well.
2003-10-24 20:17 | User Profile
2003-10-24 20:40 | User Profile
No Charles Bukowski?
2003-10-24 21:35 | User Profile
JudeoChristian: "Uhhhh....Spinoza."
Heh, heh.
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2003-10-24 23:31 | User Profile
[B]1.Kant[/B] 2. Aquinas 3. Augustine 4. Plato 5. Hume 6. Aristotle 7. Protagoras 8. Nietzsche 9. Sextus Empiricus
2003-10-25 00:16 | User Profile
I guess I think (almost) alphabetically.
2003-10-25 02:17 | User Profile
2003-10-27 15:07 | User Profile
My results:
2003-10-28 01:08 | User Profile
Pythagoras
Parmenides (Very little known about him, One philosophical poem, and one of Platoââ¬â¢s plays about him --- He wrote a good refutation of Atheism, that I needed to read. His other idea, that nothing moves, everything is fixed --- naaah! His rating with me is kind of personal)
Whoever wrote the Bhagavad-Gita ( Iââ¬â¢d put it higher, but someone might think that Iââ¬â¢m Rban sneaking back.)
Lao Tzu
Plato
Collectively, a bunch of Sufi philosophers
Enkidu
I just remembered, there was a Bishop in the early church: 7. Pelagius
2003-10-28 01:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Bardamu]No Charles Bukowski?[/QUOTE]
Yeah. And no Eric Hoffer. Phooey. :crybaby:
2003-10-28 11:56 | User Profile
My results:
It's somewhat surprising to me that Augustine came out on top, as I disagree with much of his theology.
2003-11-06 16:35 | User Profile
Gurdjieff
2003-11-20 04:09 | User Profile