Who's your favorite philosopher?

Most of my philsophy come from a mix of c s lewis Joseph Campbell charlie chasplin Bruce Lee Eddie Murphy George Lopez and linkin park . I know the lasst few are not supposed to be here but I'll explain...
The way the last 2 comedians see life ... As funny .... Yes I'm a fan, no matter the day to them they will find the brighter side or at least make those around them laugh. Lp is one of my favorite bands and have my favorite songs in them. Steven Curtis Chapman is also a songwriter slash philosopher ..." There's no one more faithful to sit at the table than the one who best remembers hungers pain...no heart loves greater than the one that is able to recal the time when all it knew was shame. the wings of forgiveness to take us to heights never seen but the wisest one will never lose sight of when they were set free... So remember your chains ...are gone

Charlie Chaplin, Jerry Lewis, John Belushi, Robin Williams, George Carlin, Jim Carey...

Kahlil Gibran

Bon Jovi. I'll sleep when I'm dead, I'm living on a prayer, Someday I'll be Saturday night, and when I go down it'll be in a Blaze of Glory.

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Honestly most of my philosophy comes from music or fictional characters. Most actual philisophy books that I read have seemed like they are just talking a debating things for sheer sake of talking. Not all, mind you, but most. I find that wisdom that comes from fictional characters has been more inspiring to me and more applicable because those characters frequently only dole out wisdom when another character need it and thus it is more immedietely applicable. J.R.R Tolkien has been a huge source of inspiration to me through the words of Gandalf and Aragorn and other such characters.

Granted I have not spent much time studying actual philiosophers.

I wouldn't say he's my favourite, but I did just this afternoon get a copy of Markus Gabriel's "Warum es die Welt nicht gibt " ('Why the World isn't real") -- in the current of 'new realism' announced in 2011 by Gabriel and the Italian philosopher Mauricio Ferrara.

I'll let you know later ...

Philosopher... not sure that I have one. But I have always been fond of Emerson.

We all have the philosopher inside us we just need to get in touch with him/her.

Nice to see some existentialists around. I'll add Sartre to the list.

So that this thread has more philosophical depth than a simple list of names, perhaps the writer might give us a quote from their favorite philosopher, or a statement as to why they like that particular philosopher.

The textbook for my World Mythology course this past semester was overpriced, heavy and bulky, and it's chapter organization and overall structure confusing. So, from the textbook of another class, Philosophy of Religion, I decided to replace that World Mythology textbook with Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces and Mircea Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History . So that my students have a better grasp of Campbell I will open the course with an introduction to Freud and Jung. Eliade has been very influential to my own understanding of religion, and the book noted above, as well as, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion: The significance of religious myth, symbolism, and ritual within life and culture I believe would benefit any Jedi-in-Training here.

"If we observe the general behavior of archaic man, we are struck by the following fact: neither the objects of the external world or human acts, properly speaking, have any autonomous intrinsic value. Objects or acts acquire a value, and in so doing become real, because they participate, after one fashion or another, in a reality that transcends them" (Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return, page 3-4).

The reality that transcends the physical object or act is not separate from the world or from human action. The value is not, as Eliade states, either intrinsic or autonomous, he continues, "The object appears as the receptacle of an exterior force that differentiates it from its milieu and gives it meaning and value. The force may reside in the substance of the object or its form; (any object, for example, a standing stone) reveals itself to be sacred because its very existence is a hierophany: incompressible, invulnerable, it is that which man is not" (ibid).

WOW!