Which philosopher has inspired you the most? Why?

Jean-Paul Sartre. I don't blame anyone for stuff that happens to me. Everything is my choice!

When I read the words of Martin Luther King I am inspired. It's gorgeously planned, but

I think what I find most beautiful is his philosophy was his Life's work.

He didn't just babble in esoteric journals or lecture halls, he made concrete changes to the world.

He sacrificed his life to be the change. That inspires me.

Mind you, I love lingering on another's thought. I read some of those journals, but to be called to action like King did, (realistically does) wow. That's the stuff.

It's really a toss up between William of Ockham, David Hume, and Hilary Putnam. Each of them have the courage to follow their reasoning where it leads.

Ockham challenged the fashionable realism of his day on logical grounds. Hume dared to ask for justification of intuitions we take for granted, and Putnam in trying to understand realism has reached a position that rejects most of what people think is needed for realism.

Our reason is all we have to learn about the life we live but following it takes commitment and honesty that most of us aren't willing to muster.

David Hume and John Stuart turbines. Hume grew to become into incorrect to propose that we are biologically predisposed to approve of habit which advantages society as an entire. We see now that it takes years of "pounding it into the top" to make certain that this point of ethical education to take carry. We forget to continuously strengthen this message with our little ones and notice how they turn-out? egocentric, self-based, no know for authority, violent, brutal, hateful, and greater. My rule for existence is: follow the guidelines and attempt to not purposefully harm all of us else AND fulfill your responsibilities to your self, your buddies and kin, your community and society, the human species, and the earth itself. The rules are meant to be there to permit us all to stay in team spirit jointly as much as conceivable. that's a shame that so few persons are responsive to this certainty. they don't seem to be meant to be a ability by which a small sector of society can dictate the strategies of something.

I have two:

Francis Bacon - Knowledge is Power

Jean-Paul Sartre - Man makes himself

The unknown author of the book a course in miracles.

Love and blessings don

Camus, because you can draw inspiration from it whether you're thinking negatively or positively.

Ken Wilber - because his explanations of the nigh on inexplicable make sense, and because his ideas have practical use.

"Cogito Ergo Sum" or "I think therefore I am" Rene Descartes.

"Desire causes suffering" Gautama Buddha

none have really inspired me but nihilism and Nietzsche de-motivated me :D