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Mountain,
I have a cousin and an uncle who gay. Be yourself; ain’t nothing wrong with it.
Peace out,
Monique
I thought this was a page about philosophy, not a support group for gay people like Mountain.
I personally don’t like gay people and think they are going to hell unless the repent.
Mountain, Jesus loves you and died for your sins, but God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
Don’t read philosophy; it will just confuse you. Read the Bible and pray. Tony, Jesus loves you, but he hates your si,
Mountain and others,
Gay people conflict with evolution and natural selection. Homosexuality is unnatural.
People like Tony, Mountain, and Pat make me sick.
If Mountain is gay, than less competition for the rest of us. I wish more men were gay.
Lover Man
To Tony, Pat and Mountain
God loves and sent his Son to die for your sins. God will save you. Repent before its too late.
The wages of sin are death
I think all yaw is gay or crack heads.
I must admit to everyone right now. I am…..a gay man. I will come out of the closet now…on Old-Wizard. You have uncovered this deep secret.
I thank you for your prayers Tony. I accept your apology Tex. And I hope everyone can accept my apology for calling them “gay fucks”. This was really inappropriate. I hope I can soon accept myself and become a better person. I apologize.
Hi Mr Mountain. Is your first name Brokeback, if so I saw your film. It saddened me deeply. Those poor horses must have been so confused.
I’m far to sleepy to commment on the list but it’s missing Jarvis Cocker.
Hey! guys I have read the whole conversation. And I have to admit it was really interesting. To uncover a gay person and make him come out of the closet, that was freaking awesome. You guys are masters.
And The Mountain, I think you are cool. Sooner or later we all face the truth about ourselves.
Peace !
Aristotle
Plato
Kant
Descartes
Hume
Aquinas
Leibniz
Hegel
Wittgenstein
Russell
Oh and Karl Marx should definitely be there, this list is incorrect in my opinion
Karl Marx….wow…..really?
Yes Karl Marx. His ideologies are spread, quoted, idolized, and used today in many places. There was a reason hitler wanted to rid Germany of Marx’s writings, because communists are intellectuals
What a dumb idea for a list.
What a dumb idea to call yourself snake.
Oi! How about Jesus Christ! Jesus isn’t really God’s son like the Bible said and he is not of virgin birth but can you consider him a philosopher, can you.
How come there are no Chinese and Indians here in the Top 10 Philosophers, not even one?
oh for god sake, do you have to be so hypocritical, who cares if people are gay or not and their not going to hell it does not exist its only christainty whose made it up. stick to your god loving, suck up and pray and everything will be fine methods. but i’m with Nietzsche on this one, god is dead and we have killed him. Bloody americans so stupid and naive
You do understand that all the anti-gay comments on this site were created by a real American gay person under various pseudo names in order to expose a real homophobe? Take a chill pill bill. God loves you too even if he is “dead”. (By the way, who is the stupid and naive person now?)
The English Are So Nice”
The English are so nice
so awfully nice
they are the nicest people in the world.
And what’s more, they’re very nice about being nice
about your being nice as well!
If you’re not nice they soon make you feel it.
Americans and French and Germans and so on
they’re all very well
but they’re not really nice, you know.
They’re not nice in our sense of the word, are they now?
That’s why one doesn’t have to take them seriously.
We must be nice to them, of course,
of course, naturally.
But it doesn’t really matter what you say to them,
they don’t really understand
you can just say anything to them:
be nice, you know, just nice
but you must never take them seriously, they wouldn’t understand,
just be nice, you know! Oh, fairly nice,
not too nice of course, they take advantage
but nice enough, just nice enough
to let them feel they’re not quite as nice as they might be.
Violet,
How can you say “for god’s sake” if you are an atheist? You have exposed yourself as a closet Christian.
Hell is bloody British people named Violet that go around saying bloody.
Where is OSHO.He is far better than any philosopher ever to have walked on this earth?
wuts the deal with all this ‘god loves you’?
oh and Aristotle should be in this instead of JJ Rousseau. period
and gay people can’t help it, they have a genetic pre-dispostion to be gay, so stfu with your repent garbage. Its like telling a retard to stop being retarded.
Dear Philo Sofia,
“You do understand that all the anti-gay comments on this site were created by a real American gay person under various pseudo names in order to expose a real homophobe?” How can you not get this?
God loves you too. I know SHE does (Please don’t take this seriously. Having to explain the irony behind everything on this page is becoing exhausting and takes out all the fun.)
By the way, are you equating being retarded with being gay? You’re not so politically correct as you think you are.
God loves you and so do I; but repent of your sin of stupidity before its too late.
Sandy
Neitzsche should definitely be higher on this list. Also, where’s Aristotle?
And to the gay arguement: So what if people are gay? It doesn’t affect you, they’re born that way, so each to their own.
Stop preaching to people who don’t want to hear it.God is a mythical being to give people meaning, also, a cancer on humanity. or he’s dead, either or.
Adam,
You are a myth. I am real! You are also a really stupid person who doesn’t know his a–hole from his brain.
I shall smite thee cursed wretch for the sin of stupidity.
The Mighty Odin, your Lord and Savior (until I reduce you to ashes)
Odin,
You are the myth! I am the real thing. Kiss my ass Dad.
Thor!
I can’t believe how ignorant the people on this page. This is 2010 and people still believe in mythical gods like Thor, Odin and Jesus.
I can’t believe that people do not understand that homosexuality is a genetic predisposition, not a mortal sin. Religion is not just the opium of the masses; it is the poison of society. The world would be better if we followed the advice of John Lennon and imagined ourselves as one with no Hell below us and no Heaven above us.
You people on this website need to educate yourselves and reject intolerance and bigotry because there is no place in this world for those who subscribed to ancient ideologies that are irrational and promote tribalism.
All I am saying is give peace a chance.
1-PLATON
2-ARISTOTELES
3-DESCARTES
4-KANT
5-HEGEL
6-ST.TOM AQUINAS
7-HUME
8-ROUSSEAU
9-NIETZSCHE
10-GILLES DELEUZE
PS-ENOUGH WITH OVERESTIMATED PHILOSOPHERS LIKE WITTGENSTEIN,HURSEL E.T.C WHY NOT RAWLS,BOURDIEU,PLOTINOS,SPINOZA OR SAUSSURE IN THEIR POSITIONS?
You left out Ibn Sina or Avicenna.
1. Science can’t prove or disprove the presence of supernatural forces.
2. According to the above scientific verdict, Nietzsche is not absolutely correct in his ASSUMPTION that God doesn’t exist.
3.Even Charles Darwin admitted that it’s possible for the existence of an almighty creator. He was an agnostic.
4.Darwin preferred to remain an agnostic because he thought it was utter foolishness to argue for the existence or non-existence of a creator without any solid evidence.
5. And let’s not forget pascal’s theory.
6. In conclusion, Fredrick Nietzsche, u must stand down from your mediocre claim about the non-existance of God – unless u want to be branded a fool.
At: anon
Nietzsche’s claim that “God is Dead” was and is not a metaphysical claim that some being we call God died or doesn’t/didn’t exist. As far as I understand Nietzsche’s writing he general doesn’t give a damn about metaphysics. He was far more interested in how we live as humans, in a human world. It is more a claim to empower humans to take responsibility for themselves and be themselves without an appeal to some higher power.
Also he was deducing the current state of affairs in Europe at his time. He realized that many people didn’t truly believe in God anymore and that without this belief and/or submitting to God’s will humans must find their own way.
Some say that Aristotles should have been on the list. I don’t think he should’ve. Besides he was wrong about a few things. If anybody is missing it has to be Karl Marx! His teachings really shaped the western and eastern world during the 20th century. I personaly like Thomas Hobbes but he doesn’t really fit here. Haha and what about Confucious?!
Oh and why the debate about homosexuality? Personaly i don’t like gays but why argue over the net about it?!? I say let them be and forget about it.
AND the issue about religion….. Look i’m religious, i believe in God and Christ, but i hate it when christians try to force religion on people. It does more harm than good. Christians should shut up leave non christians AND gays alone.
I did not include philosophers whose sole or near sole focus was in the field of ethics , moral theory and/or political philosophy. I include philosophers who focused on metaphysics, ontology, logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of psychology, epistemology, and other theoretical philosophical issues. I included some moral thinkers such as Kierkegaard and Foucalt because their ideas had implication far wider than just ethical and religious concerns. I did not include such moral and political thinkers as Machiavelli, Rousseau, Sidgwick, Rawls, and Montesquieu, who were all important, but deserve consideration only for their contribution in the fields of ethics and political theory.
Top Ten Philosophers of the Twentieth Century
1. Wittgenstein
2. Heidegger
3. Russell
4. Husserl
5. Carnap
6. Foucalt
7. Quine
8. Derrida
9. Sartre
10. G. E. Moore
Top Ten Philosophers of the Nineteenth Century
1. Hegel
2. Nietzsche
3. Marx
4. Kierkegaard
5. Charles Sanders Peirce
6. William James
7. J. S. Mill
8. Schopenhauer
9. Fichte
10. Brentano
Top Ten Modern Philosophers (Renaissance to Enlightenment)
1. Kant
2. Descartes
3. Hume
4. Leibniz
5. Hobbes
6. Spinoza
7. Locke
8. Berkeley
9. Thomas Reid
10. Jonathan Edwards
Please don’t rant and rave if I didn’t mention your favorite philosopher, or if, in your opinion, I overrated or underrated someone else. I have studied Western philosophy for over twenty years,so I should have some idea of what I claim. If you think you can do better, and you have actually read a substantial amount of Western philosophy, than by all means create your own list or give reasons (no bitches and moans please) as to the inaccuracies of my claims.
#10 – Nietzche
#9 – Kierkegaard
#8 – Schopenhaur
#7 – Socrates
#6 – Hume
#5 – Hegel
#4 – Plato
#3 – Aristotle
#2 – Descartes
#1 – Kant