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2005-06-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Vote for your favourite philosopher in BBC poll

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Posted by phil_b 2005-06-24 19:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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Posted by phil_b 2005-06-24 19:12|| 2005-06-24 19:12|| Front Page Top

#2 If people are voting tactically, then how the devil is Wittgenstein running second? I've barely even heard of Wittgenstein!

Marx is not a philosopher. He was a political economist and a fairly good pundit of his day - check out his contemporary articles on the American Civil War. I'd say that about one-third of the "philosophers" on the list weren't philosophers at all. St Thomas Aquinas? Theologian. Hobbes? Political scientist. Popper? Sociologist specializing in science. Russell? Mathmatician. Satre? Playwright. Socrates? Stonemason.

I voted for Kierkegaard. I'm a sucker for gonzo Danish angst.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2005-06-24 21:44|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-06-24 21:44|| Front Page Top

#3 I've barely even heard of Wittgenstein!

Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

I'm on my way to vote for JS Mill...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Well, somebody had to say it.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-06-24 22:21|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-06-24 22:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Socrates himself is particularly missed. A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-06-24 23:01|| 2005-06-24 23:01|| Front Page Top

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