which thinkers (philosophical, political, theological, psychological, historical etc) had the most influence on you and what did they influence about you?heres mine:hume (made me support empiricism)nietzsche (made me interested in amor fati and eternal recurrence)kant (made me anti idealism)peter singer (made me support utilitarianism)mircea eliade (made me interested in myths and illud tempus)paul e griffiths (made me support developmental systems theory)georges sorel (made me support political pessimism and made me interested in sorelian myths)giovanni gentile (made me support third positionism/fascism)
>>25643810btw you can include thinkers who negatively influenced you (see my disagreements with kant)
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>>25643810Arthur Schopenhauer (the will)Frederich Nietzsche (will to power, genealogy)Immanuel Kant (dentological ethics)Aristotle (realism)Antonio Gramsci (cultural hegemony)Michel Foucault (historicism)William James (pragmatic justifcation for belief)Max Weber (iron cage of bureaucracy)David Hume (emotivist ethics)Marc Bloch (annales methodology)Leopold Von Ranke (empirical history)Sigmund Freud (collective neurosis and the death drive)Carl Jung (archetypes, shadow, libido as life force)Skinner (negative influence, strict behaviorism)Spinoza (negative influence, hyperdeterminism)Jose Ortega Y Gasset (the mass man)Gustave Le Bon (crowd psychology)and a touch of evolutionary psychologythough I'd say I'm pretty close to Phenomenology
>>25643874max weber is based
>>25643951obviously. he's one of the best.
