What generation of philosophers was the best?I count in the Greeks-Roman era.

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Anonymous 11/30/14 (Sun) 00:04:20 972ced No.474

What generation of philosophers was the best?

I count in the Greeks-Roman era.

Anonymous 11/30/14 (Sun) 00:13:33 a9e5a9 No.476

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What do you mean when you say "the best"?

Anonymous 12/08/14 (Mon) 18:57:28 5eb08f No.526

How many philosophers does it take to change a light bulb?

>define change

Anonymous 12/09/14 (Tue) 01:09:42 5557b2 No.527

>>526
ha

Anonymous 12/09/14 (Tue) 20:05:07 c5b3d6 No.530

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>>526
>define define

Anonymous 12/10/14 (Wed) 00:26:40 154db2 No.532

>>474
Any "generation" where philosophers talked with an easily readable language with limited technical vocabulary to convey complex thoughts and where philosophy was but a mean to achieve a better life by being put to practice.

So I'd say from the late hellenistic period to about the 6th century.

Anonymous 08/23/15 (Sun) 17:27:08 b80599 No.1933

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The fedora school of thought millennials are oblivious the most informed/enlightened generation.

Anonymous 08/31/15 (Mon) 13:27:26 59bbd6 No.1993

>>474

I have a soft spot for analytic philosophy, so sue me.

>>532

That's a pretty good stance to hold.

>>1933

Really curious to see what will become of philosophy over the next two or three generations. The word was watered down anyway, I'm not convinced it will make it unscathed.

Anonymous 09/13/15 (Sun) 22:42:39 963e06 No.2030

>>532

I'm gonna let this guy do my thinking for me from now on

Anonymous 09/15/15 (Tue) 01:21:15 eb7e02 No.2032

>>1933

>>1993

Marx said much of philosophy is to science what masturbation is to sex. The most useful ideas in philosophy have diffused into pop culture anyway. Hardly anyone goes to college without dabbling in at least one class on the subject.

Anonymous 09/23/15 (Wed) 12:47:41 5b9a14 No.2052

>>2032

>Marx

Rockefeller also said that he wanted a nation of workers and not thinkers.

Anonymous 10/07/15 (Wed) 12:27:01 b95612 No.2112

>>2032

You do realize that i was ironic right?

Anonymous 10/12/15 (Mon) 23:00:53 eb7e02 No.2124

>>2052

Thats a modern attribution, not a direct quote.

Anonymous 12/08/15 (Tue) 01:56:35 8e7968 No.2743

The 19th Century, excluding Marxism and Utilitarianism.

Anonymous 12/09/15 (Wed) 12:56:06 79054b No.2763

>>2743

Yeah, those two are shite. Personally, I think objectivism is underrated. It's still BS, but you can hardly call it worthless or unoriginal.

Anonymous 12/09/15 (Wed) 17:54:07 dd5207 No.2765

>>2763

it is both worthless and unoriginal

Anonymous 12/10/15 (Thu) 23:07:57 20b9b9 No.2782

>>2765

still better than marxism and utilitarianism

but not by much

Anonymous 12/10/15 (Thu) 23:43:07 e5327b No.2783

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>>2782

I don't see a problem with ulitarianism unless it is taken to a facist extreme. The happiness of the many should outweigh the subjective happiness of Ayn Rand.

Anonymous 12/10/15 (Thu) 23:54:14 e5327b No.2785

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>>474

I want to say the era of Plato or Socrates, (not fond of how Aristotle monopolized all thought in his generation.) But the Germans Idealists would be the most fun. Picture yourself drinking with all those avant garde philosophers who were on a name basis with each other in old Germany. You could befriend Hegel, Nietsche and Marx in the same lifetime. Wait is Bob Marley a philosopher?

Anonymous 12/11/15 (Fri) 11:23:21 20b9b9 No.2805

>>2783

The problem is that you don't necessarily make people happier in the long run by improving their life conditions.

Happiness is too subjective and unstable, people will always find reasons to be unhappy.

AlanWatts 12/11/15 (Fri) 21:53:19 eb1c36 No.2808

Stoic thinkers of the late Greek and early Roman eras. Stoicism is by far the most pragmatic and down to earth school of thought.