Is he the most upvoted philosopher ever?
Hahahahahaha because REDDIT amirite guys??? 4chan forever!!!!!!
>>2480633
t. butthurt redditard
Is the philosopher with the most ever (you)s?
>>2480643
Marx
>>2480600
He is popular as an essayist, not because of a few papers in philosophy.
>>2480651
Bahahaha faggot
>>2480600
>Is he the most upvoted philosopher ever?
Barely rates really. He was a continuation of the British monarchical supporting oligarchy in its efforts to attack Roman Catholicism which in the context o the key political issue for the British oligarchy was the continual enslavement and confiscation of property and individual liberty of Roman Catholics in Scotland and Ireland .
It was only a short step from the Protestantism of Henry the 8th, a fig leaf for the adoption of all power and control by a single ruler to a secularism where the state arbitrarily dictates what is 'right' or 'wrong' based on the material incentives of the oligarchy. Russel provided a manifesto for this and an breathed a new rationale into attacks on the post colonial Irish.
His philosophy (it barely deserves the title) is at best a restatement of the work of JS Mill and at worst a post anglican diatribe against their traditional enemies the Roman Catholic population of Ireland and Britain. It is unlikley that if his ideas had not been so convenient to the British oligarchy in transitioning from a totalitarian sectarian state (which had ceased to believe in its anglican 'king as a Gods divine intermediary' to a secular state with oligarch technocrat as arbiter of morals you would ever have heard of him beyond his work on mathematics
>>2480600
>>2480600
St. Thomas Aquinas
The most important philosopher that has ever lived.
> he will NEVER be discussed for who he was, but because he knew Wittgenstein
KEKED
>>2480755
I thought I knew who the guy in OP was but I'm confused now.
>>2480600
Loved My Favorite Martian.
"yet on the whole, relative to his capacities, he was a failure. He petered out. He squandered his time and energy, and even his money, on unworthy objects."
And this is from the dude who singlehandedly supported Russell at one point.
>>2480600
You mean a man dedicated to promoting a philosophy which entire purpose is to allow its followers the freedom to fuck underage animals?
>>2480639
Site wars are dumb. As is only limiting yourself to one site.
>>2482516
As someone who pretty much only stays on 4chan and hates every other website, most of these site wars threads are started by people who came from there or use both. Just because I called gaia retarded back in the day doesn't mean I had an intricate knowledge of gaia, like these anti-redditor posters seem to have of reddit.
>>2482516
Nobody can tell you what to do, but if you drag shit from other sites back here expect to get called out on it. Similarly I hope you don't spread 4chan's shit.