Who's your favorite philosopher?

OB1Shinobi wrote: thanks for mentioning him because i had forgotten completely

No problem, man He does have a way of saying things simply and clearly that not a lot of word are necessary.

I've been reading William James lately, but for me it has to be a coin toss between Plato and Robert C. Solomon. Solomon writes about emotions in great detail, and that is my field of interest, but Plato is special to me in that I find his writing style to be the most pleasing out of all of those I have read.

On the flip side, I don't care too much for Spinoza or Charles Peirce, not because of the content of their arguments, but because of the style of their writing.

how did i miss this thread?

my favorite philosopher.... easy myself

Alan Watts is probably my favorite, though I really enjoy Slavoj Zizek.

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T.A. Barron

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
-Marcus Aurelius

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
-Bruce Lee

I enjoyed Simone de Beauvoir's work quite a bit, and Machiavelli's The Prince is also very enlightening. (I mainly love it because it was written about Cesare Borgia, but I'm not sure if Machiavelli is technically a philosopher...it's more of an ethics thing, but whatever. )

Of course I also love the usual suspects: Socrates, Nietzsche, Sartre. My favorite "comedian philosophers" are Russell Brand and George Carlin.

Platon

After some more thought, I'd have to change my answer to Matthew Stover.