Ask HN: Who is your favourite living philosopher?

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by eimrine • 3 years ago

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Which living philosopher has changed the world the most? Which of the living philosophers is the most truthful, at least in theory? What should a person do in 2023 for you to recognize him as a philosopher?

ttonkytonk2• 3 years ago

Who is your favorite living philosopher? Which living philosopher has changed the world the most? Which of the living philosophers is the most truthful, at least in theory?

Greta Thunberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlTBi5nkBT4

eimrine5• 3 years ago

You just broke my bias that no female can be a philosophist. She changed the world because everyone knows her as a symbol of realizing the problem, for example auto bloggers use to remember her frustration as a good joke when their cars product too much smoke and/or use too much fuel. But what exactly has she done to consider her as a philosopher, can you formulate this criterion for me?

ttonkytonk2• 3 years ago

She understands that to know the good is to do the good, the criterion established by Socrates, the only philosopher worth his salt in a sea of bigoted pedants.

adhvaryu• 3 years ago

You just broke my bias that no female can be a philosophist.

Uh, why is that?

ksaj• 3 years ago

I don't know if you meant that as a joke, but here is a list of female philosophers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_philosophers

brian_spiering• 3 years ago

Sam Harris is contributing to modern philosophy. He wrote a book entitled "Lying" about on why we should not lie. His talk "Science can answer moral questions" is worth waching https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_answer_mora...

BOOSTERHIDROGEN• 3 years ago

Alain de botton

jurgenwerk• 3 years ago

Well, that's easy. Slavoj Žižek. He's incredibly amusing.

dev_0• 3 years ago

Massimo Taleb

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