Who's Your Favorite Philosopher?
Have you ever wanted to tell everyone who your favorite philospher was? I didn't think so.
Nonetheless, as part of their "In Our Time" program, the BBC is running a vote for the "Greatest Philosopher." They have narrowed the field to twenty philosophers. Vote now in BBC's Greatest Philosopher vote!
Here are the finalists:
- St Thomas Aquinas
- Aristotle
- Rene Descartes
- Epicurus
- Martin Heidegger
- Thomas Hobbes
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant
- Søren Kierkergaard
- Karl Marx
- John Stuart Mill
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Plato
- Karl Popper
- Bertrand Russell
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Socrates
- Baruch Spinoza
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
This vote gave me a refreshing chance to catch up with my college days, as I have a BA in Philosophy. So long as Peter Singer doesn't appear on the list, I'm happy. It's funny to hear people practically campaigning for these long dead philosophers.
Perhaps I'll go home and listen to Monty Python's "Bruces' Philosophers Song."
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