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Your Philosophical Influences

Postby Svobodu » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:29 am

I see people here have very strong opinions on matters of public policy. Without getting into debates about which is better, name the most influential people who helped shape what you currently believe in philosophically, politically, or economically. Everyone has some influence to thank, so don't say you don't have any :)
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Postby Svobodu » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:32 am

Mine (currently):

Milton Friedman
Ron Paul
Ayn Rand
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
John Stossel
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Postby Ski Apache Nation » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:36 am

Kant
Burleigh T. Wilkins
Peter Singer
Michael Harrington
Joel Feinberg
Jane English
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Postby Ski Apache Nation » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:39 am

Svobodu wrote:Mine (currently):

Milton Friedman
Ron Paul
Ayn Rand
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
John Stossel


Lemme guess... you're a social darwinist who believes Business, by definition, it out-side the realm of morality, due to the need for individuals to assure their own fate?

a.k.a "Sure, we'll (blank) for profit!"
P. S. I got that from your Richard Dawkins+Milton Friedman+Ayn Rand/Ron Paul
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Postby Svobodu » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:42 am

Ski Apache Nation wrote:
Svobodu wrote:Mine (currently):

Milton Friedman
Ron Paul
Ayn Rand
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
John Stossel


Lemme guess... you're a social darwinist who believes Business, by definition, it out-side the realm of morality, due to the need for individuals to assure their own fate?

a.k.a "Sure, we'll (blank) for profit!"
P. S. I got that from your Richard Dawkins+Milton Friedman+Ayn Rand/Ron Paul


Hah, not exactly. Nice puzzle building though. Came pretty close. Again, let's not say which philosophies are better. I just want to see people's influences.
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Postby Ski Apache Nation » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:44 am

Svobodu wrote:
Ski Apache Nation wrote:
Lemme guess... you're a social darwinist who believes Business, by definition, it out-side the realm of morality, due to the need for individuals to assure their own fate?

a.k.a "Sure, we'll (blank) for profit!"
P. S. I got that from your Richard Dawkins+Milton Friedman+Ayn Rand/Ron Paul


Hah, not exactly. Nice puzzle building though. Came pretty close. Again, let's not say which philosophies are better. I just want to see people's influences.

Agreed
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Postby L Ron Cupboard » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:47 am

Buddha
Lao Tzu
Epicurus
Albert Camus
Daffy Duck
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Postby Funkadelia » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:51 am

Ronald Reagan,
Scott Brown,
Not really a famous person, but an influence on me nonetheless, My dad.

Probably more, but mostly people in my life, such as teachers, etc. No other famous people that I can think of at the moment.
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Postby Vousielle » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:52 am

Kurt Vonnegut
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Postby Phaedrus Imperator » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:53 am

Niccolò Machiavelli
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Postby North Calaveras » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:54 am

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Postby Ad Nihilo » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:54 am

Politics-wise:

Aristotle,
Machiavelli,
Hume,
Foucault (and implicitly Nietzsche),
John Grey,
John Kay...
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Postby Jedi8246 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:57 am

My influences are:

Ron Paul
Ronald Reagan
Friedrich Hayek
Adam Smith
Jesus Christ
Ludwig von Mises
Thomas Jefferson
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Postby Povos do Mar » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:57 am

My Parents
Jesus Christ
Slavoj Zizek
Buddha

In descending order of who has influenced me the most.
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Postby Vestr-Norig » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:58 am

I dont know much of people who have shaped me apart from my family. I guess it is more the local community (my village), and the nature here that has, though. Naturally, my Christian faith and the Holy Bible has been very important shaping my philosophical ideas. Also, the Centre Party with several of its members, as well as several 19th and 20th century persons such as Ivar Aasen, Jakob Sande, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, etc, has somewhat influenced me, I believe.
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Postby Bovaresia » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:04 pm

Voltaire
John Locke
Adam Smith
Ludwig von Mises

and a smattering of others.
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Postby Triganor » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:05 pm

i begins with platonicism and all Greco-Romans philosophers fllowed by Descartes and Kant, then i have studied Marx and Keynes to finally have my own vision based on the mutual respect of all life forms and a clear view of the whole multidimenssional multiverse as described by Schrodinger with his cat ...
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Postby Veblenia » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:06 pm

Michel Foucault
Frantz Fanon
Judith Butler (mostly by osmosis)
Karl Polanyi
...I guess there's some Marx in there, too. He casts a pretty long shadow.
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Postby Equilor » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:06 pm

Adam Smith
John Locke
John Stuart Mill
Socrates
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Jefferson
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Postby The Babbage Islands » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:10 pm

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Jesus Christ
Robert Nozick
Murray Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises
Several LDS apostles
My wife
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Postby Zottistan » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:16 pm

Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and a tiny bit of Nietzche.
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Postby Peoples State of Dominica » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:36 pm

Richard Dawkins
Chistopher Hitchens
Socrates
Marx
Orwell
Thomas Jefferson
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Postby Kemaliste » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:43 pm

Kemal Ataturk
Vladimir Lenin
Mao Zedong
Mahatma Gandhi
Fidel Castro
Sultan Galiev
Che Guevara
Léon Cahun
Leone Caetani
Ziya Gökalp
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ali
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Postby EnragedMaldivians » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:13 pm

Kemaliste wrote:Kemal Ataturk
Vladimir Lenin
Mao Zedong
Mahatma Gandhi
Fidel Castro
Sultan Galiev
Che Guevara
Léon Cahun
Leone Caetani
Ziya Gökalp
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ali


You just listed a bunch of people who were "anti-imperialist". While this may be broadly true of all of them, if you think you can reconcile the worldviews of Mahatma Gandhi and Che-Guevara and incorporate their outlooks into your own philisiphy, you worldview is extremely simplistic and entails automatic sympathy to the charachters of every fool and despot who fights or fought against imperialism. Grow up.
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Postby Mosasauria » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:15 pm

Well, I never really cared for reading on the philosophy of others, but I guess my influences could best be described as follows:
Fidel Castro
John Stossel(Yes, yes, I know, completely unexpected, yadda yadda)
Ralph Nader
Zack de la Rocha
Richard Dawkins
And there's probably more, but I can't remember them. God, I must sound like the typical angsty teenager. :lol:
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