RE: What philosopher do you most identify with?
October 31, 2010 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2010 at 5:56 pm by The Omnissiunt One.)
David Hume: he was a great bloke. He came up with two problems that dominate philosophy of ethics and philosophy of science respectively: namely, the Is-Ought problem and the Problem of Induction. He demolished the Teleological Argument and miracles more comprehensively than any other philosopher has. Best of all, he was British (I omit the fact that he was Scottish, but of course, had he been English, I'd identify him as that).
Sartre's interesting, but his ideas are typically woolly for the Continental philosophical tradition. I'm not sure that his radical libertarianism vis-a-vis free will is correct.
(October 31, 2010 at 5:28 pm)Existentialist Wrote: Jean-Paul Sartre - (atheist) developed an ontological account of what it being human really is. This ontology's main features are inescapable subjectivity and the absolute freedom which characterize the human condition. First, each human exists, then defines him/herself. Every human invents their own life meaning and the meaning of everything around them. We are all condemned to be free.
Sartre's interesting, but his ideas are typically woolly for the Continental philosophical tradition. I'm not sure that his radical libertarianism vis-a-vis free will is correct.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
