if western philosophers had a Mount Rushmore, who would be on it?
If western philosophers had a Mount Rushmore, who would be on it?
Wyatt Jones
Xavier Thompson
Marx and Engels
Brandon Barnes
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
Saint Aquinas
Saint Augustine
Jackson Price
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
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Isaac Nelson
Zizek
Molyneux
TJ Kirk
Styxhexxenhammer666
Josiah Carter
Jordan B Peterson
Nick Land
Sam Harris
David Horowitz
Benjamin Jones
>Kant
>Hegel
>Nietzsche
Sebastian Perry
>Jesus Christ
Luke Moore
Don't post feels guy.
Chase Diaz
hume, heideggar, tarski, husserl would be nice. you know, people that advanced the field instead of working down from a premise or assumption.
instead it'd probably be something retarded like wittgenstein, kierkegaard, du bois, and fuckin ayn rand or something.
Landon Barnes
Death Grips.
Landon Taylor
Just the first three of these. If you insist on having four people then maybe Kant I guess.
Define "advancing the field"
Andrew Hall
It must be 4 people. Aquinas is the 4th.
Aaron Price
>people I don't agree with aren't advancing the field because progress is defined by whether or not it goes in the direction I desire
Wew
Austin Reyes
>Washington
Socrates
>Jefferson
Plato
>Theodore Roosevelt
???
>Lincoln
???
Help me out here lads.
Benjamin Murphy
Neitzsche, Aristotle? Need someone like Neitzsche to be the outlier opinion
Ethan Butler
Obviously Aristotle
>Neitzsche
not even close.
Justin Davis
Marxists are the creationists of economics and philosophy.
Isaiah Brown
You know, I'm surprised that marx engels lenin stalin banner was never actually carved into a mountain.
I mean it's reasonable idea for a fuck you to the americans.
Easton Green
no philosopher is worthy of etching onto a cliff face
Ethan Scott
serious answer:
Socrates
Locke
Kant
Nietzsche
Julian Thompson
desu Locke and Socrates do
Evan Lopez
Plato
Aristotle
Kant
Nietzsche
Benjamin Flores
That's too Great Man Theory for Marxists.
Juan Lopez
>Nihilism
>Utilitarianism
Seriously off yourself.
Hudson Gonzalez
>HUUURRRR DURRRRR
Adam James
>utilitarianism
what do you mean by this?
Mason Mitchell
>Nietzsche=Nihilism.
Here.
Samuel Collins
Definitly Socrates
Definitly Kant
Descartes
Hume
Hobbs
Possible for Russeau, maybe Machiavelli,
Maybe confucious.
Asher Taylor
>hobbes
>not locke
Stop what you're doing and re-evaluate everything
Luis Baker
Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Kant
Jonathan Perry
Socrates, The Amazing Dildoni, Foucault, and The Amazing Dildoni's Left Testicle.
Sebastian Cook
>all these babbys wanting kant
Adam Gomez
>Aristotle
>Plato
>Aquinas
>Kant
>Wittgenstein
Luke Reyes
Aristotle
>Represents pre-Christian era of philosophy, could switch him out for Plato or Socrates but I like Aristotle the most
Aquinas
>GOAT Christian philosopher
Locke
>Need someone for classical liberalism given how big of a deal that was.
Deciding on a fourth:
Marx/Engles
>Hate to put them up here as a staunch anti-communist but their historical impact is absurd
Nietzsche
>Hate that edgelords love him so much but he is undeniably important
Kant
>I like him personally
Hume
>Eh
Heidegger
>Just the most well-known post-modernist
Confusious/Buddah/etc.
>I feel like some sort of eastern philosopher deserves a spot here but we could keep this easy and stick to Western thought.
Could obviously go on but I like the first three.