Philosophy Bites asked a lot of philosophers "Who's your favorite philosopher?" Most of then chuckled first and then said ...
Hume
Aristotle
None
Montaigne & Nietzsche
Sartre, None
Aristotle
Carnap
MacKinnon
Hume
Descartes
Nietzsche
Frege
Kant
Hobbes, Rousseau
Aristotle
Aristotle
Thucydides
Socrates
Hume
Wittgenstein
Hybrid of Wittgenstein, Marx, Mill
Hybrid of Armstrong, Smart, Lewis
Aristotle
Nietzsche
Hume
Wittgenstein
Plato
Fred (Fred Nietzsche)
Fodor (for his wit!)
Hume
Descartes
The last woman I talked to, whoever she is
Socrates, Wittgenstein
Nietzsche
Parfit
Ramsey
Mill
Hume, Bentham
Hume, Wittgensetin
Kant
Russell
Kant
Mill (because he'd be interested in talking to a woman)
Kant
Hobbes
Hume (for many reasons, but for one: he was a good cook)
Arendt
Hume
Kant (he was so damned good)
Hume
Hume, Williams
Hegel
Bentham
Sidgwick
Dummett, Hume, Wittgenstein, Chomsky (Hume #1)
None
Panetius ( a late Stoic), Gandhi
Locke
None
Hegel
Kant (triggers salivation)
Kant
Mill
Rousseau
Hume
Aristotle
Hume
Have fun guessing who said whom. Where did I go wrong? Everyone loves Hume. I find him boring. I'll go for ..... Aristotle. No, Plato. Agh. Just not Hume.
1 comment:
Boring perhaps because the worldview he expressed is now so commonplace that many of us who hold it have difficulty imagining any other.
But speaking of boredom, I was almost sad not to see Ayer on the list. I found 'The Problem of Knowledge' "exquisitely boring" in the sense that it was exciting to see the accumulating power of many small steps expressed in plain language.
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