Who's your favorite philosopher/s?
Who is your favorite philosopher?
Mine are David Hume, Alan Watts and Noam Chompsky. I was thinking of adding Denis Diderot to the list but then I may as well include a plethora from Nietzsche to Plato because I think every philosopher I've read has made some very compelling arguments (even Ayn Rand, though after you give it proper thought you realize she's too prickly).
When I consider my favorite philosophers, I consider those that I already agreed with before I ever even read them. I consider philosophers who I've advocated long before I even heard of them, let alone read their works. I cannot read a sentence from Hume, Watts and Chompsky without getting excited at how eloquently they put concepts I would fail to describe in ten times the number of words.
Honorable mentions include certain comedians that do extremely well at picking apart our conception of reality. Demetri Martin, Bill Hicks, Jim Gaffigan, Dave Chappelle, Katt Williams and Mitch Hedberg are all amazingly good at speaking the truth about life's inconsistencies. Furthermore, many writers that would also be deemed philosophers of a kind have said very profound things, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, or post modernists like Faulkner, Emmerson, Thoreau and Whitman, and of course I can't exclude Oscar Wilde from the list. Nor Douglas Adams for that matter.
And just to give a few more honorable mentions so no one feels like they have to exclude anyone they think of as a philosopher: Martin Luther King Jr, Sage Francis, Bob Dylan, Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, Manly P Hall, Karl Marx, Gautama Siddhartha, Jesus of Nazareth, His Holiness the Dalai Lama the 14th, Carl Jung, Quentin Tarantino, Alan Moore, fuck I could go on for ever.
Shit I completely forgot Camus and Sartre