Who are your top literary and philosophical geniuses in history?

me, have you fucking read my diary dude!?

>>9189236
Plato
Augustine
Aquinus
Leibniz
Wittgenstein
Lewis
Kripke

Laozi
Emerson
Joyce
/endlist

>>9189245
Nice. Have you read "On the Plurality of Worlds"?

>>9189250
Of course. Modal realism is the only thing that comforts me about this worst possible world

>>9189245
>Augustine
>Aquanus

Top fucking kek my dude. Stop with the memes, Augustine was useless in philosophy outside of his thoughts on time, and even then Kant blew him the fuck out later. Elsewhere, he just took New Testament thought to its logical conclusion. Aquanus is barely comprehensible meme tier BS

Pythagoras
Plato
Cicero
Plotinus
Jesus
Buddha
Jung

>>9189236
Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche. Not even necessarily favorites, but they're who I'd consider the 'top geniuses.' Followed by Aristotle, Heidegger, Kant, Wittgenstein.

And as someone who primarily focuses on continental philosophy, disregard anyone who names a post-Heidegger continental philosopher in this category.

Augustine
Aquinas
Ibn Arabi
Plato
René Guenon

>>9189279
>Plato on the same list as Nietzsche

>>9189279
>as someone who primarily focuses
Kek. Yeah? Don't we all.

So would you dismiss Sartre in that category?

Also, I would definitely include Wilson and Leary, and their eight circuit model of consciousness. It is a crime that Leary's political reputation at the time overshadowed this fascinating, playful body of philosophical work.

>>9189292
Yes? As a Nietzschean, ranking philosophers becomes not a matter of who was correct but who were most creative, imaginative, original, and transformative.

>>9189303
Sartre is a hack. The point I'm making is all of the post-Heidy continental guys didn't *really* bring anything too groundbreaking or even original (a lot of them were just rehashing Nietzsche). They were very smart guys and I love reading and being influenced by them, but Foucault, Arendt, Adorno, and co. are in no shape or form 'geniuses.' The analytic side had smarter guys, even.

>>9189292
both belong there.

>>9189303
sartre is just bad heidegger

>>9189313
>most creative, imaginative, original, and transformative

and you took the one we dont even know if it were his thoughts

>>9189258
>even then Kant blew him the fuck out later
1) Why "even Kant"? Kant disproved literally every philosopher before him
2) By such a sentence you prove your ignorance of how philosophy works from the dawn of time

>>9189258
>Aquanus is barely comprehensible
Aquinas arguments are really fucking easy to understand. You must be literally retarded not to be able to follow his logic, especially when he laid it out in the easiest possible format to follow with assertions and objections to those assertions

>>9189660
A good point, but even if we take his works to be exercises or whatever, the massive influence and creative transformation of the world Geist as a result of his works remain.

philosophy isn't intelligent. it's just shitposting that you guys take seriously cause it's old.

>>9189711
Don't waste a post to reply to him, he's just a troll who has never even tried to read Thomas

>>9189248
Joyce

LOL

>>9189729
Well, in this same thread there is even one who named Jesus

>>9189721

The ignorance

>>9189743
nice counter-argument.

>>9189729
What are you talking about? Why isnt Joyce a literary genius?

>>9189737

True I saw that. Baffling.

>>9189753
The topic is philosophy and you named a novelist. Genius, ok, but still a novelist

>>9189764
> Literary and Philosophical

Genkhis Khan, Attila, Saladin, Timur Lenk, Alexande the Great, Aurelius, Julius Ceasar, Rommel, Patton, MacDouglas, the Judge,

>>9189753
Finnegans wake is unreadable psychobabble. Same with most of Ulysses. People just elevate him to feel smarter because they don't get what he was saying. Neither did he

>>9189766
Didn't notice that, sorry

>>9189764
It says literary though.

(Although that is funny to think of someone naming Joyce as their favorite philosopher)

>>9189773
Yeah it's funny because he didn't write even a single page of philosophy

>>9189768
I don't read Finnegans Wake.

I named him mostly because he wrote "A Portrait", but Ulysses certainly isn't rambling.

>>9189787

Okay I did love Portrait

What was he trying to do with Ulysses? I was impressed with the language but left completely bored.

>>9189236
Dante
Kant
Leopardi
Aquinas
Plato
Lucretius

Diogenes
Virgil
Me
Flaubert
Proust
Thomas Pynchon

>>9189806
Me is trash

>>9189806
Is it just me or Me is actually a talentless hack?

>>9189816
It's going to be OK.

Augustine
Hobbes
Bradley
Wittgenstein
Heidegger
Plato
Aquinas

>>9189793
Parody the mythical Greek hero

>>9189236
Been really into theology lately. Have read most Plato, a lot of Aristotle, Augustine's Confessions, and some Aquinas. Just read the new testament, going to finish the old testament soon, then I'm looking forward to reading Plotinus, Philo, Josephus, Eusebius, and more Augustine and Aquinas. I've read bits any pieces of all of them, and I know I will enjoy them when I dive in.

For ancient history my favorite are Herodotus, Polybius, Plutarch, & Livy. For literature love me some myth, Homer, Hesiod, Beowulf, the Bible. Also Melville and Willy Shakes

William Blake

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Me.

I don't care what anyone else says.

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>>9190864
If you don't care then why are you posting here? ;^)

>>9189935
i love heidegger but he was kind of a nutcase.
being and time is mostly jargon that just goes round in circles. but that might just be me, maybe he is a genius.

Sam Harris
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
James Randi
Maynard James Keenan

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>>9190883

>>9190888
Butthurt creationist detected

>>9190893
damn you got him i am putting this on r/atheism

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Nee Chee

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>>9190893