What philosopher do you most identify with?

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Machiavelli isn't up there. Test is broken.

The one there, with whom I most identify, would be Marx.

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Immanuel Kant - Claimed that we cannot know the external world directly, and that things are seperated between the nomenal world ( things in themselves ) and the phenomenal world. Was religions, but in a moral sense more than anything else. He destroyed the ontological argument despise being religious himself.

It is not that we cannot know... it is that knowledge is merely assumed correctness. The ant sees a mountain, the man sees a computer, the giant sees a pebble, the god sees all.

Ayn Rand - She was an atheist, hated Kant with a passion, and promoted completely lasseiz-faire capitalism. Somewhat of a moral fanatic in that she claimed that serving your own rational interests was an objective moral, and because of that, that pure capitalism ( not even the mixed economy of the USA) was the only moral society to live in.

Yes... the ferengi certainly are moral Objectivists are funny.

David Hume - A skeptic and an agnostic/atheist. Famous for naturalizing things, such as morality, and made arguments that preceded those of Darwin. He also believed that we cannot know the external world for sure because while our senses perceive things, our mind constructs the world out of those perceptions, such as cause and effect. He influenced Kant greatly.

I like that. Except we can know (quite certainly and vehemently) things that are ultimately false. It can also work backwards (the mind constructing an external world that the senses then perceive)... or at least the brain thinks they do.

Thomas Hobbes - a possible atheist ( definitely a materialist ) famous for his pessimistic view of human nature and believed in an absolute monarch.

So absolute that they get replaced by any number of things when they die or are otherwise removed. I wonder what you mean by "absolute monarch"?

Thomas Paine - A Deist thinker famous for writing the pamphlet common sense that sparked the revolutionary war, promoted liberalism in his book The Rights of Man ( particularly, ideas that fly in the face of people like Glenn Beck that claim to love him so much ) and was a staunch critic of religion, authoring the Age of Reason and Examination of the Prophecies, which were two of the first books on Biblical Criticism.

That helped set it ablaze. The things he wrote about and their impact on the colonists (or rather, a few select ones) is more likely that which sparked the war. And even then, it would be more correct (perhaps) to say that the government of England sparked the war.

I do happen to like him though. Wouldn't identify with him, but I like him nonetheless.

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Don't complain about Rand being on there either, I included her as an opposite to Marx. I know she is loathed. But hey, she was an atheist.

I'm not complaining. Heck, she's the only one on the list I identify with, and I'm not even an Objectivist

There really weren't that many choices, were there?