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Terry
Lv 7
Terry asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 6 years ago

Top philosophers?

what has happend to the top philosophers . they have all changed ?

Does anyone else have this problem?

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Top Philosophers

  • 6 years ago

    Perhaps if you knew what philosophy is, you could formulate an intelligible question!

    What do you mean 'change'?

    Philosophy is NOT a series of mindless bumperstickers!

    Read the following and, maybe, get a clue;

    Philosophy is 'original critical thought';

    Critical Thinking

    http://www.skepdic.com/ticriticalthinking.html

    Bertrand Russell on Critical Thinking

    http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Educ/EducHare.htm

    As opposed to the 'scholastic';

    "..."philosophologists", a term coined by Robert Pirsig ("Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "Lila") to denote people who study other people's philosophy but cannot do philosophy themselves. He also says that most people who consider themselves philosophers are actually philosophologists. The difference between a philosopher and a philosophologist is like the difference between an art and aesthetics; one does and the other studies what the other does and theorizes about it."

  • 6 years ago

    I prefer most this philosophers.

    Aristotle

    Copernicus

    Kepler

  • small
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Unfortunately, top philosophers get the fame only after their death so that they are left with no scope to change.

  • 6 years ago

    From what I understand, I take it you are asking about Yahoo's list of top people for the philosophy section. Sometimes, even Yahoo can't explain what goes wrong! lol Eventually, it all gets set right again.

  • 6 years ago

    Changed? No. They have not changed. They are still dead and have been for quite some time. They are not changing.

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