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started with some marx a long time ago, wasn't the most interested in philosophy for a while but now i'd say my biggest influence is definitely Nietzsche. really a phenomenal thinker and no doubt one of the Greatest Of All Time. i've quoted 'Beyond Good & Evil' as if it was my personal bible which is ironic, to say the least. i've still got a lot of stuff on my shelf i haven't read yet, mostly more Nietzsche but also Plato's 'Republic', as well as one called 'The Computer Revolution in Philosophy' by some guy called Aaron Sloman. i've recently taken interest in the early works of Nick Land (hoping to one day get my hands on Fanged Noumena), a strange man but his early analyses of capital and technology seem somewhat valuable. the poetic and semi-spiritual philosophical reflections of Yukio Mishima i admire greatly, and i am looking forward to reading 'Sun and Steel'. additionally, i will receive Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus sometime soon which i am sure will be an interesting experience.
 

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Also Thérèse of Lisieux and her fellow Carmelites Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. I don't believe Thomas Aquinas was holy or wise, but I'm happy to be proved wrong on that.

Also Lao Tzu, Zhuang Zhou, and Euclid, and every Hellenic geometer working in Euclid's idiom.

Also Jesus, who may or may not have been divine, but who was usually right, if his sayings in the Bible are representative.

I can't guess why anyone cares what Nick Land thinks. He's edgy and his books have cool names?
 
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Mark fisher, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Nick Land, Hiedigger, Sartre and Husserl
 
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started with some marx a long time ago, wasn't the most interested in philosophy for a while but now i'd say my biggest influence is definitely Nietzsche. really a phenomenal thinker and no doubt one of the Greatest Of All Time. i've quoted 'Beyond Good & Evil' as if it was my personal bible which is ironic, to say the least. i've still got a lot of stuff on my shelf i haven't read yet, mostly more Nietzsche but also Plato's 'Republic', as well as one called 'The Computer Revolution in Philosophy' by some guy called Aaron Sloman. i've recently taken interest in the early works of Nick Land (hoping to one day get my hands on Fanged Noumena), a strange man but his early analyses of capital and technology seem somewhat valuable. the poetic and semi-spiritual philosophical reflections of Yukio Mishima i admire greatly, and i am looking forward to reading 'Sun and Steel'. additionally, i will receive Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus sometime soon which i am sure will be an interesting experience.
after sun of steel you should read bronze age mindset PepSiDawgwitcan
 
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Also Diogenes.

But in all seriousness, even if I don't apply them to my daily life, I find the teachings of many Chinese philosophers like Sun Tzu to be very insightful. Buddhism in general holds an outlook on life I find agreeable, so I read a fair few buddhist teachings in my spare time. Can't remember many specific philosophers though, since it's usually in compilations.
 
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My favorite philosopher is Plato. Plato wrote the polity which is one of the greatest philosophical books of the ancient times. In the specific book plato dealing with issues like the value of the money, the right people to govern a city-state, the ideal state, he analyzes the regimes, he talks about the soul he quotes the conditions of an virtuous man and hes teaching about life issues with allegories such as the cave of ignorance. The cave of ignorance is something like the matrix damn how far ahead was this old man.
 
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i've listened to a few extracts of caribbean rhythms. i don't align exactly with everything he says, but BAP is a pretty interesting figure and great speaker. once i get through all my other books, i surely will check it out. cheers
"i don't align exactly with everything he says" is commonly said by those who have yet taken life in the name of BAPist cult, you'll come around eventually
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I think that all philosophers are far less unique and interesting than we tend to believe, and that all of them are put on a way too high a pedestal by academia which makes people feel like their own experiences and observations as "mere mortals" are worthless by comparison. What these "classic philosophers" had to say may hold value and be worth reading, but at the same time there aren't any conclusions about society, human nature, politics and the meaning of life that are so unique that you must read their writing and their writing alone in order to reach the same conclusions. Hell, for each one of these classic philosophers, there are probably at least a dozen different people who are ranting on their respective Youtube channels about the modern equivalent of the exact same shit.

This is far less true for very niche aspects of philosophy though. For example, I don't think anyone could write about what it's like to be involved in a military conflict with people shooting at you unless they actually went through such an experience themselves.

My favorite philosopher is Plato. Plato wrote the polity which is one of the greatest philosophical books of the ancient times. In the specific book plato dealing with issues like the value of the money, the right people to govern a city-state, the ideal state, he analyzes the regimes, he talks about the soul he quotes the conditions of an virtuous man and hes teaching about life issues with allegories such as the cave of ignorance. The cave of ignorance is something like the matrix damn how far ahead was this old man.
Despite what I just said though, Plato is a real OG.
 

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Friedrich Nietzsche, for the concepts in Beyond Good and Evil, and the concept of the Übermensch.
Max Stirner for the concepts of spooks.
Alduous Huxley for the concept of behavioural conditioning in society at large.
Marcus Aurelius for Stoicism in laymans terms.
Kaczynski for the power process, and oversocialisation.
J.R.R. Tolkien for his lessons on constructed mythology, histories and languages.
Carl Jung for the proto-psychology of the shadow and self-actualisation.
Sun Tzu for philosophy on conflicts, for which conflicts exist for a lot.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his book "The Little Prince" which shows plainly obsession, and looking in on others obsessions and their lessons.

A mish-mash of philosophy that leaks into literature and politics, but all them have a lot they can teach.
 
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