# Who is your favorite philosopher? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142 "2009-12-13T21:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142/61 "2009-12-26T04:29:17Z")
Sorry! Saw this in passing, and y’all **know** how much I love the Pythons! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/luVjkTEIoJc/hqdefault.jpg "Star Trek Meets Monty Python") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc) Q ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bith_Shuffle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142/62 "2009-12-26T04:30:17Z")
Raymond Smullyan ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142/63 "2009-12-26T13:36:32Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Even though he’s a wax-headed strawman, I’ll pick [Jeremy Bentham](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/Faqs/auto_icon.htm). Change “Even though” to “Because”. That freakin’ rocks! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142/64 "2009-12-26T20:08:10Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Nietzsche, Sartre and most especially Daniel Dennet. > > I am also fond of the works of Shan Yu. Are you familiar with them? Psychotic sadism justified by overblown prose - tell me you’re not really a fan. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142/65 "2009-12-27T00:20:11Z")
Maimonides. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142/66 "2009-12-27T03:08:42Z")
R. Buckminster Fuller – his _Critical Path_ is my favourite book of all time. There are two excellent reviews of this book which I feel say it all. One can be found on the disinfo site: [http://old.disinfo.com/archive/pages/review/id1090/pg1/](http://old.disinfo.com/archive/pages/review/id1090/pg1/) The other is by the late, great Robert Anton Wilson: [Rawilsonfans.com is for sale | HugeDomains](http://www.rawilsonfans.com/articles/CriticalPath.htm) Also: Diogenes the Cynic. “If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes.” – Alexander the Great ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2009, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142/67 "2009-12-27T10:05:54Z")
Dead: Aristotle Living (current fave): Alva Noë ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142/68 "2010-01-12T15:19:02Z")
John Stuart Mill. Does Clifford Geertz count? Foucault challenges me, but it wouldn’t be accurate to describe him as a favorite. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142/69 "2010-01-12T19:58:50Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Psychotic sadism justified by overblown prose - tell me you’re not really a fan. That’s no way to talk about Daniel Dennett! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142/70 "2010-01-12T22:47:36Z")
I’ll go with Michel de Montaigne. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-philosopher/521142.md?page=3)