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View Poll Results: Who is Your Favorite Philosopher?
Rousseau 3 10.00%
Hume 2 6.67%
Locke 2 6.67%
Marx 2 6.67%
Plato/Socrates 5 16.67%
Spinoza 1 3.33%
Kierkegaard 1 3.33%
Sartre 1 3.33%
Epicurus 1 3.33%
Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha) 3 10.00%
Kant 4 13.33%
Nietzsche 5 16.67%
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Old 10th Dec 2009, 06:56 PM   #1
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For all of us philosophically inclined EC members out there, who is your fav philosophizer and why?
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Old 10th Dec 2009, 06:57 PM   #2
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Siddhartha Gautama
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Obviously "So-Crates" because he was in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
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Er... Why is Immanuel Kant not there?
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No Nietzche?
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Rousseau
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Plato/Socrates. Besides the fact that I see my own natural bent towards sarcasm reflected in their writings (), I appreciate the fact that so much of their writing is based around asking questions. This reflects my own view that truth is found through questioning the established social order.
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Thomas Hobbes
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I choose ten that I though most people would know. and Nietzsche would have never made the list, God is not dead. However, I respect your opinion.

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Er... Why is Immanuel Kant not there?
true, Kant is worth noting...
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Er... Why is Immanuel Kant not there?
true, Kant is worth noting...
I have added Kant to your poll. If there is anyone else you would like me to add, let me know.
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What wise words today, o great and knowledgeable one?
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What wise words today, o great and knowledgeable one?
Um, er... damn, this whole being a philosophical leader thing is hard! xD

Eat plenty of Baconators and Live a Healthy and fruitful life! There, That's good for today
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Um, er... damn, this whole being a philosophical leader thing is hard! xD

Eat plenty of Baconators and Live a Healthy and fruitful life! There, That's good for today
A fallacy in your first work! It is logically impossible to eat plenty of Baconators and live a healthy lifestyle.
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Obviously the first miraculous event that shows that the being I am is Divine xDDDDD
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George Carlin, Chuck Schuldiner, Bill Hicks, and Paul Masvidal.
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I have added Kant to your poll. If there is anyone else you would like me to add, let me know.
Thanks Mirko Kant is by far my favourite philosopher (as some of you could have guessed reading my signature ).
Why ? Because of the categorical imperative first, because he is the one who have failed St Anselm proof of God existence and because someone who have missed his everyday walk because he was reading Rousseau can't be entirely bad
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