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Silversoul
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Who are your philosophical influences?
#12417163 - 04/18/10 08:46 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've seen a thread here about favorite philosophical quotes and about who we are, but I'd personally like to know which philosophers have influenced you the most. I guess part of the reason I ask is because, despite being a philosophy forum, I don't see much discussion of philosophers, and I'd like to know where people are coming from philosophically.
As for me, though I had some interest in philosophy in college (particularly in my libertarian phase when I was influenced by Lockean natural rights), the writer who was really responsible for renewing my interest in it and helping to shape my current views was Ken Wilber. I don't necessary think he's all that innovative in his philosophy, but he has a gift for summarizing and integrating several other philosophical ideas and making them intelligible. I'd say the philosopher whose views most approximate my own is Alfred North Whitehead, along with other process philosophers like Bergson and Chardin. I've also become interested in the phenomenology of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, as well as the embodied philosophy it has spawned. Lately I've started absorbing the pragmatist philosophy of William James and John Dewey. I'm interested in the similarities between pragmatism and process philosophy. I have a certain affinity for the ideas of German idealism, though I wouldn't personally consider myself an idealist. Other honorable mentions go to Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Robert Anton Wilson, and Plato.
How about you? Who are some of the intellectual influences on your philosophy?
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: Silversoul]
#12417188 - 04/18/10 08:50 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Robert Anton Wilson Douglas Adams (HHGG) David Hume Plato Ram Dass Douglas Hofstadter (Had an e-mail convo with him once)
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appleorange
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: xFrockx]
#12417198 - 04/18/10 08:52 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: appleorange]
#12417298 - 04/18/10 09:09 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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RAW Aleister Crowley Marquis de Sade Socrates Wittgenstein
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Poid
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: deCypher] 1
#12417308 - 04/18/10 09:11 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Huxley and myself.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylanfireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: Poid]
#12417325 - 04/18/10 09:14 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Poid said: Huxley and myself.
You ever read?
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SlashOZ
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: Poid]
#12417326 - 04/18/10 09:15 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Camus, Thucydides, Locke, Machiavelli, Kant, Heidegger, Zizek, etc.
-------------------- "Life sucks but in this really beautiful way" - Axl Rose "Life's a bitch and then you die that's why we get high cuz you never know when you're gonna go." - NAS "When people don't know what you're about they put you down and shut you out" - Black Sabbath "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Gandhi "Look up at me I am God, look down on me and I am evil, look at me I am you." - Charles Manson. "Don't question my reality." - Me (as far as I know)
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: appleorange] 2
#12417335 - 04/18/10 09:17 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yup.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylanfireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: deCypher] 1
#12417354 - 04/18/10 09:21 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Mr. Cypher said: Socrates Wittgenstein Aleister Crowley RAW Marquis de Sade
S.W.A.R.M.?
Shit, that is code for the Insectoid invasion to begin! :whoa"
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ImaginingEmotions
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Mushrooms Logic and Reasoning TOOL Jiddu Krishnamurti (presently) Myself
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deCypher
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said:
Quote:
Mr. Cypher said: Socrates Wittgenstein Aleister Crowley RAW Marquis de Sade
S.W.A.R.M.?
Shit, that is code for the Insectoid invasion to begin! :whoa"
the reptilians have you morpheus
-------------------- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Cracka_X
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: Silversoul]
#12417521 - 04/18/10 09:54 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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philosophers surrounding Dao.
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Dr.Thompson
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Quote:
ImaginingEmotions said: Mushrooms Logic and Reasoning TOOL Jiddu Krishnamurti (presently) Myself
Amen, Brother.
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dill705
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: Dr.Thompson]
#12419368 - 04/19/10 09:15 AM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nietzsche Machiavelli John Stuart Mill Aristotle Freud Darwin Einstein
-------------------- My advice is to find those things that give pleasure and do them often without too much attachment and relax and wait for the show to end. -Icelander- I like free markets and all. Truly I do, at least in general, but there needs to be some kind of oversight in recognition of sustainability. Life works the same way, on a bunch of sustainable systems. Why not honor what made us what we are and take some lessons? Nature FTW! ~dill705~
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andrewss
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: dill705]
#12421198 - 04/19/10 03:17 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Jesus, Satan, dogs, cats, Socrates, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Sartre, and my Anima.
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deCypher
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: andrewss]
#12421206 - 04/19/10 03:19 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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I banged your Anima like a two-bit whore from Tijuana.
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andrewss
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: deCypher] 1
#12421224 - 04/19/10 03:23 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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-------------------- Jesus loves you.
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deCypher
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: andrewss]
#12421227 - 04/19/10 03:23 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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-------------------- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Icelander
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: Silversoul]
#12421610 - 04/19/10 04:48 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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James Douglas Morrison.
Jimmy Hendrix.
RAW
George Carlin.
Carlos Castaneda
Alfred E. Neuman
Nietzsche
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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BrainChemistry
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: Silversoul]
#12421661 - 04/19/10 04:56 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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In no particular order:
Epictetus Socrates James Allen Shakespeare John Lennon Krishnamurti Albert Einstein Fritjof Capra Marcus Aurelius Alan Watts R.A. Salvatore Bob Marley George Orwell H.G. Wells
And i'm sure this list is incomplete, as I tend to incorporate ideas into my personal philosophy from as many sources as I can, assuming they fit correctly.
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keeponrockin
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: Icelander]
#12421678 - 04/19/10 04:58 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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lsd, shrooms, Grateful Dead, weed and myself
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BrainChemistry
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Re: Who are your philosophical influences? [Re: keeponrockin]
#12421703 - 04/19/10 05:02 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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True, one can never forget personal experience.
Ahhhhh boomers. They put me back to square one. Emptied my cup, one might say.
-------------------- Word to your mom.
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