who was smartest philosopher

Kant, easily, without any sort of doubt. Kant is both the start and end of modern philosophy. Everyone claiming to follow in his continental tradition has failed him - everyone who came before him could not begin to match his influence on the philosophical discipline.

Immanuel Kant is the most important and profound philosopher in human history.

>'Was'

Is Sam harris

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>>8364033
Intersting. And who do you think understood life the best?

>>8364053

Me, when I was fucking your mom. When I came into her sweet pussy and my superior cum moved into her tender uterus, I understand life that point. Life is about the pleasure I get from tearing your mother in half.

>>8364057
You're lying. Ergo you don't know

>>8364053
how would you even quantify such a thing?

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>>8364027
>Smartest
I'd be willing to believe one of those mathematicians-turned-philosophers like Wittgenstein or Descartes had the highest IQ. You tend to find a lot of them have some vague tendencies towards believing in something like a God. Liebniz, Spinoza, Wittgenstein and Descartes for instance.

The greatest philosopher is Epicurus however, as he is the one of recognised that happiness is the undeniable and absolute Good in the world - and that all it takes is to look inside yourself to see it.

Nietzsche

>>8364027
Richard Dawkins--author of The God Delusion

>>8365952
why

Whitehead

probably a physicist

i would say Feynman

>>8365982
his later works are an embarrassment

>>8365916

Good post. Include me in the screencap.

>>8365985
Fuck off /sci/

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Nietzsche

Me,
DEPBATE ME FAGGOTIES

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>>8365992
WHY, IM CURIOUS

>>8365916
Wittgenstein was no mathematicians, her research in mathematics or logic was pretty much zero, although we can be pretty sure that we was proficient at both. The studies in logic with Russell are what we would call today philosophy of logic than logic (since logic today is usually understood as mathematical logic) - in some ways the logic they study was an hybrid, but more philosophical than mathematical.

I agree with your point though. But there are some obvious exceptions like Newton, whose philosophical work is completely forgotten.
An it'd be possible to include Kant among the philosophers you mentioned, it is possible to say that he understood fully the mathematics and sciences of his time, consider that he wrote various treatises in natural philosophy (now science, in particular physics) and wrote metaphysical foundations of natural science to give 'explain' Newton's principia.

>>8365987
You just haven't processed it enough.

Aristotle, obviously.

>>8364027
Diogenes!

y'all be footnotes to Plato nigga

Plato

probably tylo be chillin

>>8364027
spinoza

I'd say Wittgenstein. His work confused all those of their day and he appeared to be thinking on a completely different, latteral train of thought. You could say that was just him being slightly unhinged, but I'd argue it was just how he saw the universe and made sense of it.

That and he managed to make Bertrand Russel pause for thought with his "All philosophical and ethical problems are just a fundamental failing of the application of language" argument.

>>8364053
Who was the most successful in life? I'd say Hegel.

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Max Stirner

>>8367265
That's from the LSR project. Didn't know about any English versions. Cool. Laska introduced me to Will Reich.

Yeah either Wittgenstein, Kant or Aristotle.

I think Nietzsche, overall. He's always struck me as the most 'honest' - and I would say that thus far, he has been the last to initiate any sort of 'Copernican Revolution' in philosophy (à la Kant/Hegel/Schopenhauer/etc).

I find that his argument in favour of life affirmation had a key flaw, however. Critical to his argument against nihilism/pessimism, is the idea that we have no vantage point from which to judge life/existence as a whole - and we have too many vested interested to judge these things impartially in any case.

However, in one stroke he equally (and unwittingly) renders any arguments *in favour* of life just as groundless.

Hence the absurdists win.

>>8367258

>hegel
>successful

He was a charlatan who died in disgrace on top of being married

Plato and Socrates.
Second, Kant.
Third, Schopenhauer.

>>8367808

>Plato and Socrates
>Implying there's a difference

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>>8367798

>being married
>flaw

>>8367811
Socrate's ideas as relayed by Plato are Socrate's property, and Plato's idea's are Plato's. Yes, it is hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, at times and we know Socrate's didn't write anything. It's still good to make the distinction.

>>8364034

Haven't been to /lit. in months

Glad to see Sam Harris the philosopher is still a meme

It's probably Leibniz.

>>8364053
>understood life the best?

Theist pov (which I subscribe to): Kierkegaard

Non-theist: Schopenhauer had the best grasp of human nature and life from a secular stand point I've seen to date.

>>8367841
>It's probably Leibniz.

From an academic stand point. This is likely true

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>>8367858

>Pessimism/Nihilism

>>8367839
>still a meme

>eviscerates and concludes morality
>eviscerates and concludes politics
>eviscerates and concludes noam chomsky

He's an Ubermensch. Don't fucking forget it

me tbqh

>>8367798
We all know what you think on that matter, Arthur.

>>8364027
Sartre

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>>8367825

It's an enormous, damning flaw for a philosopher

>>8367935
lmao

>>8367930

He did die in disgrace though after the Prussian state turned on him

>>8367936
Socrates himself was married and had children

>>8367936

Nietzsche?

>>8367943

>Implying Nietzsche didn't think Socrates was suspect

He was one of the first, if not the first philosopher to hold Socrates in a bad light.

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>>8364027
this is not a debate

heidegger tbqh
kant btfo

>>8364027
Parmenides. Got it all right on the first go

>>8366032
not them but if i had to answer Id say he captures the self-contradictory nature of many truths, his lack of one systemized "truth" reflects that truth, unknowable. You know?

Marco Aureliuz

>>8364033
>everyone who came before him could not begin to match his influence
Plato, Aristotle. That's 2, right there. Kant was undoubtedly one of the smartest men in history, but I think Aristotle has an edge, because he was starting from less. The west was built on Aristotle.

>>8367957

He didn't really hold him in a bad lig as a person though, in fact there are many paralels between S and N. It's more what Socrates initiated and Hat followed because of him at N seems to react against.

Bertrand Russell

>>8364033
>Will
>Categorial Imperative

Kek, Kant was a cunt. He had the acuity of an orange, was a braggart, and he was hidebound.

He should be epitomized as the retarded, polemical moron he was.

I got a B in the one philosophy class I had

>>8368203

Aristotle was shallow as fuck tho

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>>8364027
Indisputable.

Jaden Smith

>>8364033
Dear Lord, what is this shit? Kant was an autistic peon that literally believed that masturbation was wrong. But it isn't.

>>8367070
underrated

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>All these German Idealists

Nothing more than Feels vs Enlightenment.

Guess what, the Enlightenment won.

>>8368507

Enlightenment was a mistake

>>8364027
They all dumb faggots, probably can't even raise a cow or make a functioning boomerang

>>8368507
>enlightenment won
Nope, and it was entirely feels-based

>>8368540
they can fuck your fat ugly whore mother, though