Philosophers are a strange bunch from all walks of life. They can range from mustachioed existentialists such as Nietzsche to egotistic anti-egoists like Schopenhauer, and even Berkeleyan Fascists such as Giovanni Gentile. I figured that it would do no harm to create a philosophy thread on NSG to discuss philosophy in general. As a broad category, philosophy covers varying subjects such as epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, etc. which will be covered under this thread.
To kick-start the conversation: Aside from a belief in the primacy of will and the irrational in life, I'm not entirely convinced of any philosophical system. Berkeley and the subjective idealists made some convincing arguments against how we normally see reality, and Gentile (the father of Actual Idealism) argued even further that reality is a product of the act of thinking, which appears bizarre and untenable though he provided strong arguments for his case. At the moment, I'm inclined to believe reality is primarily mental, to what extent, I am not sure.
Where do you fall on the philosophical scale, NSG?
If anyone wishes for a poll, you will have to suggest one.
