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blackhole asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

Who's your least favourite philosopher?

Which philosopher makes you fall asleep the fastest and why?

Update:

So, it looks like Kant gets the big snooze award, and Nietzsche the award for being the most generally dislikable. Great answers!

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  • E-ma
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Although Socrates was good about spreading the idea of free thought, he's a bit arrogant speaking about his own wisdom & then accredits it to the Oracle of Delphi. When he gets into that mumbo-jumbo about how gods & demi-gods have led him to wisdom then I just find that discrediting to his self professed wisdom.

    I believe in the saying that the truly wise do not consider themselves to be wise, but always in a constant state of learning.

  • 1 decade ago

    Immanuel Kant

    ...whose whole system can be legitimately reduced to his first initial and last name repeated petulantly three times in a whiny voice:

    I Kant...I Kant...I Kant

    Source(s): Anything by Immanuel Kant
  • 1 decade ago

    Definitely John Searle. The guy doesn't have a theory, just an intuition that he just keeps table-pounding on. His arguments are all bad, and what's worse they're the kind of bad that's really convincing if you're not thinking real hard.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well least favorite is Nietzsche, but the one who puts me to sleep the fastest is one of my favorites, Sartre.

    The trouble with Nietzsche is, he isn't even a nihilist, like his devotees, so I can't figure out what exactly he was trying to say, except that I understand that when he said "God is Dead" he meant religion was losing it's influence, not there is no god. He was right on THAT point anyway.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Sartre who generally brings me to a state of nausea. But most of the pre-war, post war French philosophers bring me to that state.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Kant makes me snooze.

    And lard boy Thomas Aquinas, he speaks some crap in my opinion.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well, Spinoza puts me right to sleep, but I actually kind of like him. He's smart, at least.

    Kant and Locke, for very different reasons, make me want to punch the page I'm reading.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Berkeley makes me angry, but Kant puts me to sleep every time.

  • 1 decade ago

    David Hume, a man whose motto seemed to be "Why explain in one sentence when you can take up 5 pages?"

  • 1 decade ago

    Nietzsche is my least favourite philosopher, because I find him self-obsessed and disagree with what he stands for. He comes across as arrogant, opinionated and self-important.

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