Greatest Thinker, in Your Opinion

Voltaire!
people like the Dalai Lama and Mother Theresa
Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci
and anyone else who is (was) capable of opening people's minds and show that there are infinite possibilities about everything.

Squashbuckler, you have some chutzpah to say you are a great thinker. some modesty please :p ! j/k it's cool with me.
 
Hi. I found out about ayn rand- rightwinger, strong anti communist
was what the resource said i looke dher up in. Wouldnt appeal to me i dont think. :)
 
Originally posted by ele
Hi. I found out about ayn rand- rightwinger, strong anti communist
was what the resource said i looke dher up in. Wouldnt appeal to me i dont think. :)
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She was brilliant. You should read "the fountainhead" and stop being a commie. Communism only sounds good on paper sweetie. IRL, you get the USSR or North Korea or China. Is that what you want?
 
HHMM, how odd, i dont recall seeing a fully functional Ayn rand based contry. How strange given that she obvioulsy percieved mankind correctly and tehrefore she envisaged the best of all worlds.




(im taking the piss, ok?)
 
Amazing.

Anyone who doesn't reckognize greatness through Ayn Rands discoveries.........I wish you continued good luck.
The pure genius, the strength,and courage to be able to see for the first time what she has called Objectivism,and actually find reason enough to share it with others....nothing short of amazing.It is the dawning of a new age. Soon,what she has proffessed, will be taken as common knowledge.
You,like myself should consider yourself blessed,to be able to read the very words she has written.
She is greater than Christopher Columbus.She set out for a new way of veiwing existence.And has brought back that which I have already seen,but known for the first time.
Anyone who disputes Ayn Rand's demonstration,before you do so, please demonstrate that you understand it before you refute it.
And if you don't understand it.What's stopping you?

Wake up.
Just a suggestion.

Ayn Rand is the greatest thinker.
In the sense that it is practical,integrated,consistent and life affirming.
I am not putting her on a pedestal mind you.
I have had to do all the work to bring my mind to a level to intergrate this knowledge,
but I honestly don't think I would have had the courage or ability to reach the heights of integration,abstraction,and pure greatness of being pro-life without her breaking the way.And in this way I am most grateful.
The moment of her profound insight must have shook the very foundations of existence.It has done so for human thought.
I gaurantee that anybody against her philosophy does not understand it.
This is not meant to convert any of you, I don't mean to be rude or brash, but I don't really think any of you(except a few of you who's mind I have come to respect)is worth the time.I am taking this moment to give public grattitude to this women.
Just one mans affirmation.
Peace Out
 
wow

Guess i no longer have to defend Rand any longer. Ive read all of her books many times. She is brilliant.
Her only one flaw is in her sexual morality.
Anyoner who loves ayn rand should also read the works of nathanial brandon, a psychologist who believes strongly in rands views.
Rand missed the importance of psychology, she knew nothing about it. Nathanial Brandon fixes those gaps, and places her philosophical ideas into a more "real to life" psychology dealing with self-esteem.
I highly suggest that all who love rand should read brandon.
 
Originally posted by Galt
Does reading his work make you bleed from your eyes?

My list:

Ayn Rand
Robert A. Heinlein
Friedrich Hayek
Aristotle
Plato
Ann Coulter
David Horowitz
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lol, this guy actually put Ann Coulter on a list of greatest thinkers.
 
Well.....personally i cant say there is A greatest thinker.
Simply becasue many of the great ones each had their own
view of things. But i cannot deny that i fint the theories of
Nietzsche,Ibsen,Goethe highly interesting.
 
Eastern thinkers are missing!

hello:
I think the greatest of all thinkers is the one who answered this question: Which came first, the hen or the egg?
Everyone of us, luminary or people of the street, has contributed something to human thought.
I read some of the thread written by the participants. You were all west-oriented. There was no mention of the Eastern thinkers or philosophers. I mention a few _ I am not an expert on philosophy- Zarathustra, Mawlavi, Gandhi. Khayyam.
And among the westerners I like Marx most who said: workers of the world unite. Be my guest:confused:
 
Re: Eastern thinkers are missing!

Originally posted by Morteza Olangui

Gandhi.
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I never understood the deal with Ghandi, i mean i know who he
was and what he stood for. But thats my point, his non-violence
stand just got him killed. Ergo it didnt work.
 
But Ghandi and the people he inspired had already achieved a great deal by the time he was assassinated. Its one of those risks you have to take.
 
Originally posted by guthrie
But Ghandi and the people he inspired had already achieved a great deal by the time he was assassinated. Its one of those risks you have to take.
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Well.....the movement seams pretty dead to day. Failure.
 
But the ideals are still there. Wht movement can you name that is not concerned with personal enrichment can you name that has lasted past its founders death?
Maybe someone from India could help here.
 
The Fountainhead in the most brainwashing book I have ever read or heard of. If you read it, beware. Objectivism truly isn't anything more than a cult... and the objectivists are hardly objective.

I think Mystech hit the nail on the head when he said that she wrote some really nice things, but if you look at her life she was really screwed up and contradictory.



She was brilliant. You should read "the fountainhead" and stop being a commie. Communism only sounds good on paper sweetie. IRL, you get the USSR or North Korea or China. Is that what you want?
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I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but if you aren't, the thing that really only looks good on paper is Objectivism. The Fountainhead is romantic, idealized, and very brainwashing nonsense.
 
Gandhi wasn't really a great thinker, he just had a lot of moral courage. He took his idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau, who was a famous thinker back in the Colonial United States.

Civil disobedience isn't quite dead, and it really did accomplish a lot. Martin Luther King was influenced heavily by Thoreau, and Gandhi's work ended up overthrowing the British rule of India, which has brought India to a brighter future.

I'm just waiting for all the potheads of the US to revolt in civil disobedience and smoke pot in some big protest somewhere. That would be great. I'd like to work on starting it.

As for the greatest thinker, I'd go with Aristotle or Newton, two old founders of scientific method.
 
Originally posted by Balder1


Civil disobedience isn't quite dead, and it really did accomplish a lot. Martin Luther King was influenced heavily by Thoreau, and Gandhi's work ended up overthrowing the British rule of India, which has brought India to a brighter future.
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Do you think India would be close to nuclear war with pakistan if
they still were under brittish rule?:D
 
Judas,
You don't seriously think the present situation in the region has anything to do with the ideas of Ghandi, do you?

If you do, I think it may be wise to divert our attention to the light in which the ideas of one of your "greatest thinkers" have come to stand. You know what I mean....

Stop annoying us.
 
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