Top Ten Favorite Philosophers of All Time
Nietzsche's relativistic philosophy of "perspectivism" is another manifestation of collectivism. Another Utopian fantasy of man's ability to perfect man. It has its ostensible diametric opposition in Ayn Rand's "objectivism," which, as with all ideologies that deny any authority above man, is deeply flawed and hardly "objective." Nietzsche and Rand each is a minefield set in a morass.
For some odd reasons, he is at the top of every philosopher list. I guess most people haven't really read his philosophy or his idea of Ubermensch. Most people are voting probably because he was a critic of Christian morality and wrote that God is dead.
Nietzsche's literature is at the top of the leaderboard. Sublime.
A conflicted and disjointed "philosophy" (more a stream of consciousness) that greatly influenced and abetted the oppressive collectivisms to come.
Gave Western civilization a rational argument, a logical need, for a Creator.
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
Groundbreaking, anarchic, and surreal anti-capitalist academic who paved the way for the internet age, coining the concept of a "virtual world" in 1967, as well as laying much of the groundwork for modern-day neurodiversity and alternative education movements in his works with anti-authoritarian communist psychoanalyst Felix Guattari.
Theologian and philosopher who wrote: "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
After analyzing every radical doubt, he came to the conclusion that one thing is sure: that he exists. His saying, "I think, therefore I am," was true, even when he was dreaming or when his senses played tricks with his mind. It was even necessarily true because it's impossible to deny it without being in contradiction with yourself. If you're saying that you have doubts about your existence, it proves in fact that you exist. Otherwise, you wouldn't have a doubt to begin with.
You also can't ignore the existence of your thinking because it is with your ability to think that you are able to have doubts or to understand when you're dreaming or not, when your mind is playing tricks or not (third parties who agree on reality). Therefore, thinking and I (my existence) are the same. A proven self-identity that has a body with a conscience. Comments who are saying that "I am, therefore I think" are not always necessarily true are misled by concepts like intelligence that has nothing to do with the reality of existence (psychological issues are not ontologic facts about reality/non-reality, existence/non-existence).