Who is the GOAT American philosopher?

>>2201839
Stefan Molyneux

>>2201839
I hate them all. The all say pretty much the same things (very limited government, some form of capitalism, obsession with freedom and liberty), and what they have to say about it is usually complete shit.

>>2201839
Richard spencer

>>2201839
Americans don't like philosophy. In my experience, we like plain spoken people, not guys who jump around what they want to say. Now that's generalizing all poets an philosophers, but, you know.

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serious answer

this guy

>>2201839
None, death to America

>>2201872
>>2201875
>>2201879
>>2201880
Not an argument

It is objectively Emerson.

Prove me wrong.

William James

Donald Trump

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>>2201839
this guy

>>2201898
Neither is what you said

I am simply implying that capitalism, high levels of individual freedom in an unjust society, and very limited government are all bad ideas. I didn't come here to argue.

>>2201927
>>2201898

>>2201930
Not an argument

It's Quine

>>2201930
can you read? I didn't come here to argue. OP asked me to state my opinion and I did.

>>2201934
this anon gets it
>>2201940
see >>2201934, >>2201930 and >>2201898

>>2201945
This is a stupid meme

>>2201961
But where is the argument?

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greatest intellectual mind in american history

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Santayana. Anti-Russell materialist, pragmatist, aesthetic philosopher, artist, and overall total genius.

>>2202183
is he white?

>>2202369
Spanish, like his parents were from Spain, so yeah?

t h o u r e a u

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>>2202383
My nigga

Putnam

>>2201839
Ronald McDonald

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Who /dewey/ here?

>>2201839
There really aren't any.

"Great" philosophers have to be the first, like the Greeks, OR have fascinating things to say during turbulent times. Since 1789 America has been mostly peaceful, except for the Civil War. France, by contrast, has gone through something like 6 constitutions. It has been invaded and invaded other countries umpteen times. Britain colonized the whole in the 19th century. Germany came into existence, had a brief flame of power, was split then reunited.

The business of America is not philosophy. It's business.

>>2203604
>OR have fascinating things to say during turbulent times.
America has had plenty of the latter though.

>>2201839
Pragmatist philosophy, the american contribution to philosophy!

>>2203614
One of the best is Richard Rorty.

>>2202861
He is also very great!

>>2201880
dude wuz an unironic we wuz kangz n shit believer

>>2203625
I thought WEB Dubois completely disowned afrocentrism

>>2201965
A great logician!

>>2201839
Take your pick from Thoreau or Emerson.

Mencius Moldbug

>>2203628
He did, that dudes mistaking him for Garvey or some such.

>>2203674
no

Jefferson

There really are no great American "philosophers"; only crafty businessmen, politicians and rockstars. The greatest American thinkers aren't from America like Thomas Paine

>>2205438
You're wrong, that's a stereotype, and a recent one at that.

By the way, who here thinks American economists > British economists? I mean, Britain is a great country and all, but Irving Fisher and Henry George were Americans... not to mention fucking John Von Neumann who helped with the Manhattan project in WWII.

>>2202861
this guy gets it

>>2202377
>Spanish
>White

>>2203625
>Said that 90% of negroes were still too simple to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps
>Literally just wanted equal rights for his friends and brethren
>"Hurr he said 'we wuz kangs'"

If you don't know anything about the subject, you don't have to post, anon. You're not letting anyone down by abstaining.

>>2201904
this
nothing but fucking plebs in these america threads
/pol/ sees an american OP and in they come

>>2205475
lmao did you see that tv thread with this post and images of Cuban landmarks

>>2201839
america=satanism
t. being bombarded by NATO during 90s

Frederick Douglass

>>2201839
ayn rand

>>2208878
>Americans will defend this

>>2201922
>"President Hindenburg? I'm NSDAP."