Who are the greatest thinkers of all time?
Kant, disagree with me all you like, you know it’s true. Other than him, Newton, Grothendieck, Aristotle.
>>251765211) Śaṅkara2) Zhuangzi3) Plato4) Longchenpa5) Pseudo-Dionysus6) Abhinavagupta7) Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī8) Meister Eckhart9) Mulla Sadra10) René Guénon Everybody else is ultimately superseded by one or more of the above thinkers.
My man.
>>25176678He was executed at 40 so the image is retarded, but I needed one with the name so people would know who he is because he is criminally underrated.Proclus is based too, and Yang Wangmin. Plus the greats like Saint Maximos and Eriugena.
>>25176521keking at the stealthbakker
>>25176521Anyone other than Bakker, Dante, and Plato who primarily do their philosophy through fiction?
Hume.
>>25176521Me
>>25176655>no Confucius, no Aristotle, no Nick LandFiltered, filtered, filtered
>>25176655Zhuangzhi does not supersede Laozi
>>25176521Depends if we're ranking volume or quality/accuracy. Kant and Hegel both produced high quantities of incorrect ideas.
>>25176521>Who are the greatest thinkers of all time?Euler, Riemann and Dedekind
>>25176655Finally, a good answer.
>>25177165Zhuangzi is an extension of Laozi's teachings and is continuing the same tradition, you might as well group them as the same entry since the latter is foundational for the former.
>>25176521Confucius, Aristotle, Lao Tzu, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
>>25176690Please post recs fren? I know Proclus. Dont know much about Islamic thought. Seems interesting.
>>25177416Fair enough, but if you're going to put representative, it should be Laozi, not Zhuangzhi
>>>/sci/
Assuming you don't want scientists or mathematicians
>>25177541Forgot the GOATHonorable mentions; Paglia, Francis Bacon, Kevin MacDonald, the rest of the Italian Elite School, Georges Sorel, Max Weber
>Aristarchus of Samos>Copernicus>Newton>Darwin>Louis Pasteur>Dmitry MendeleevHonorable mentionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
Scientists and mathematicians are too rigid system brained and should not count. Raw brain power =/= depth and truth.
>>25177610Cope
neither of the two quack psychologists /lit/ likes to fellatethat's for sure
>>25177610Wordcel faggot.
>>25177621Why does Jung make you seethe so?
>>25176521All the high-level poets. Philosophers are okay, but their work is largely subsumed by natural science
>>25177704Only metaphysics. Political science, metaethics and psychology is still necessary and independent
>>25176521Tolstoy. He solved religion and aesthetics and ethics
>>25177620Nigger
>>25177626Go back to /sci/ wordlet bugman.
>>25176521TRUTH SHINES
>>25178042Is that Apollo and the Muses?
>>25176575Reinventing the wheel of Platonism because you were poorly read isn't exactly impressive.
PtahhotepAuthor of Epic of GilgameshMerikareOrpheusZarathustraAniAuthor of Dialogue Between A man and His SoulAuthor of Immortality of WritersWhoever initiated Memphite Theology after Atenakhen's protojudaism."Upanishad"Honorable mention of Homer, Hesiod, Rig Veda, all pre-axial legendsPherecydesLaoziPythagorasParmenides and Philolaus and Archytas (whom Aristotle plagiarized)Plato (I'll attribute to him all that any of his students wrote, like Heliocentrism)Stoics were intelligent the way Analytical guys were 'smart' but they were incapable of nonmathematical/non-dianoetic thought. Thanks for the syllogisms I guess...Cicero has gone from overrated to underrated again.Paul was clearly a genius given how he invented Christianity, a master of platonic statecraft/noble lie.Sextus EmpiricusPlotinusIamblichusSyrianus > ProclusDamasciusEriugenaNo one has done anything new since.
>>25177598Heliocentrism is hinted at in Plato's dialogues—metaphysical Heliocentrism (i.e the Good is the Sun of the Soul), and the short step from 'sun is in the middle place between earth and Saturn' > sun is in centre——and one of his students wrote of it explicitly, Heraclides Ponticus. It's ultimately inspired from Pythagorean theological central fire, which is actually referring to the galactic core.Aristarchus developed the mathematical proof, but not the idea. Just as Eudoxus, cones guy, Euclid and Archimedes, they pointed to Plato as the founder of their own discoveries.
>>25178295>sun is in the center>between earth and saturnThere's no reason to interpret that as heliocentric in the astronomical sense. The sun is the middle of the seven classical planets.
>>25178317Given how planets are going around the sun, there are times when the distances of all the planets to each other would look like the left image.
>>25178322>>25178317And you missed a clause.The premise of the sun being in the center of the gods, the leader of the gods, the cause of the gods, the king of all whom Plato says "around the king of all do all things turn". It is a short step to attribute this to astronomical matters as well. Since the physical mirrors the divine... Just as two of Plato's disciples actually did. Probably because Plato played with the idea.
>>25178322(As in, just as there are times when Saturn are closer to earth than any other planet—except moon—there logically must be times when the earth is farther from Mars Venus than the Sun is.
>>25178337(I.e there are times when mars and Venus are on opposite sides of sun while earth and Saturn are on the same side, at this point the latter two are closer each other than any other planet).
>>25176521
It's Newton but this guy is fun
>>25176655This post reeks of sun dried street poop
>>25176521>img unrelated
>>25176521plato, aristotle, kant, newton, einstein, darwin
>>25181718>K*nt next to Darwin and Newton
