Top 10 Philosophers
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Schopenhauer??
not one black philosopher mentioned this is all rubbish
what about Jesus Christ?
I thought number 1 was going to be Gautama Buddha
Lol nietzsche at nr 3 yet Kant didn't even make the list and not even honorable mentions to Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger and Russel. Instead this goes to Foucault of course. Yay popular culture!
Betrand Russell?
Wittgenstain, Hegel and fucking Kant are much more important than the french revolution fellas
Karl Marx should be #1
I would put Hume as #1 but Kant certainly belongs in the top 5.
laotse?
My top 3: Nietzsche, Plato, and Cicero
Karl marx is the biggest Philosoph in the Humanity story!
Hey!
It seems your knowledge of philosophy is limited only to western thoughts. Do you know that there's a millennia of knowledge in the East too. Or you guys see only the western hemisphere of the globe.
Probably yes, else you guys could not have missed Buddha or Mahavira or Kautilya( Chanakya) or Prophet Muhammad or M N Roy or even Gandhi.
wow why wasn't Lao Tzu in this???
oh gggod where's Hegel? He is one the most influential and successful philosopher of the XIX century! And marx is just in the honorable mention ??? like wtf
Why is Kant so underrated??
Milton Friedman????
Where's Ayn Rand?
Lao Tzu? Gautama Buddha?
No Alan watts ?
Gautama Buddha is the first philosopher of the humanity. Also, Mohamed. and Jesus..had huge impact on humanity. :)..
Why did they show Karl Marx and not Adam Smith?
Where are the great philosophers of the East, Ibn Rushd, Al Farabi, Ibn Sina? Where is Pythagoras? And where is the Philosopher who was against Philosophy, Al Ghazali? And why is Plato number Two and Aristotle number one??? His dualism sets him apart from all the Greek and the overall Indian European thought. Now we know
it's a reality. Aristotle is all over the place vis a vis his teacher. lastly where are the cynics and stoics?
Where's Avicenna?
Mill
List is missing Buddha himself!. What kind of a list is this?:)
In this video it feels like the person who wrote the script doesn't t know what they are talking about. Also it's completely random. You put both Socrates and Plato despite their similarities but didn't have Marx or Hegel. And no one would put Rousseau on that list
What an absolute mess this was
There have been so many great philosophers throughout history that i think it's impossible to just do a top 10
1. Kant
2. Aristotle
3. Hume
4. Frege
5. Plato
6. Nietzche
7. Wittgenstein
8. Heidegger
9. Sidgwick
10. Kripke
1. Aristotle.
2. Kant.
3. Plato.
4. Socrates.
5. Hume.
6. Hegel.
7. Nietzsche.
8. Descartes.
9. Thomas Aquinas.
10. Locke.
No Allen Watts ?
Kirkegaard? (sighs)
Sigmund Freud!!!!!!
m8, what about Diogenes?!
where the fuck is kant?!
I don't know why hatred of Islamic civilization
Some of the philosophers didn't mention
ibn sina , Averroes , ibn tofail , Al-Razy , etc..