Who are some good philosophers?
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I'd start with Will Durant's book "The Story of Philosophy", it is fantastic.  He goes through history describing all the major philosophers\n\nAristotle, Plato, for the classic philosophers, are a good start
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Philosophiae Doctor (Doctor of Philosophy).
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here's an answer NOT straight from a philosophy book...\nS.E.X.
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good, sensible, benevolent modesty
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Voltaire.  It's my favorite quote.
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i am too tired to help you tonight ( final tomorrow)\nBUT\nyou can\n1. google search and maybe you'll find some philosopher's corner\nor \n2. check w/ your school library... and see if there's electronic collections on encyclopedia of philosophy....\nthose are very helpful ( i was saved by those... )\ncheers
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Name one good person on this earth.
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Well Plato did! And he is known to be the greatest thinker that ever lived. He came to the conculsion that there must be a God through pure thought
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The most answers to a question I have seen by far is the one that Dr Deepak Chopra asked a couple of weeks ago in the philosophy section...in fact it was even featured in the main Yahoo home page!  I just looked it up and it had 26,760 answers and has been resolved by Dr. Chopra...The person got 16 thumbs up too.  I answered it but there were so many answers I never found mine!  LOL
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honest, dependable, generally good morals.
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Atheistic and philosophical.  Non materialistic.
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Do your homework!  \n\nHe was a great philosopher who influenced the ideals of freedom and responsibilty in the Anglo-American experience.
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Epicurus had alot of good quotes.  I was reading them the other night.  He caused a whole movement of thought.  \n\nAtheists have been using that argument for ever.  No one has been able to debunk it yet.
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An excellent introduction (and a broader perspective than Russell) to mathematical philosophy is "Philosophy of Mathematics : Selected Readings", eds. Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam.  This will give you a good overview of the field as of the mid 80s.  After that you might find that your interest in mathematical philosophy tends more to one area than another, such as philosophy of logic (what does an "if..then..." statement really mean? [dare I say 'imply'???]), or foundations of mathematics (do we discover mathematics, or invent it?), or the nature of proof (what do we mean when we say that a theorem is proved? ). I would also recommend reading about the history of mathematics. I have no specific book recommendations here, but a quick Amazon search pops up "A History of Mathematics" by Isaac Asimov. Enjoy!
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To some extent aren't we all philosophers?
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Ben Franklin.  Ahead of his time, creative in multiple fields from science to diplomacy, apparently a great conversationalist.\n\nThis is a fairly common question, but a great one nonetheless when the person can be dead or alive. Another version of the question asks you to name 3 people, dead or alive, who can come from different historic times.  Would be fun to pair up Franklin with Da Vinci, for example.  Hard for me to choose the 3rd one, though.  If I had to choose, I'd also invite Shakespeare, but there are many others.
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Plato, but he was a philosopher.