Yes Socrates himself is particularly missed A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed

I thought this list was pretty stupid at a glance, then I ACTUALLY looked through the list and was way more amused. I can also make quite a lot of inferences, and STILL feel he's missed some ones he'd consider important! But mostly this feels like 'As far as you know I didn't have to look up these'

If you're curious- if you're gonna go for an insufferable White Always Right guy, how the HELL you miss Thomas Aquinas is 100% beyond me. I'm guessing skipping Plato and Da Vinci because 'eww gays' (I mean, longer conversation fork on that), but Mills? Locke, Galelio? 'Too well known?'

Also he doesn’t even say which of the 5 Rimbaud movies you’re supposed to have watched.

So we know he's both a boring-ass conversationalist AND thinks dialectics are something L Ron Hubbard invented.

Also, what about Kant? Hume? Rawls?And how do you fully understand Aristotle without Plato‽ 🤔

I mean, kant sucks ass. So that I understand

Well, yeah - he was known for being extremely precise, pedantic, and punctual, and he usually came off as an idealistic fusspot. He also tended to be either extremely verbose and detailed or terse and vague. In other words, he’s the autist’s philosopher. 🤪

I mostly hate his moral idealism. Like, things were always moral, or always immoral. Context doesn't matter. And that's exactly the kind of childish philosophy you'd get from a dude that never stepped foot out of his backwater village.

Yeah, that kind of thinking shows up in autistic people fairly often. He was known for being *extremely* inflexible about nearly everything. However, his maxims are useful as a first step to moral reasoning and understanding more complex ideas like the Principle of Dual Effect.

Also needs Dostoevsky just in case there isn't enough depressing shit to talk about.

Tfw you have the PERFECT reaction gif in mind to respond to but, if course, it doesn't exist because it's a line from an obscure 1989 Kirk Cameron movie

What, and leave out Chekov?

You know what? You deserved a hot take from me! Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" is one of the few pieces of Russian literature i actually enjoyed.

I'll be honest and say that I wasn't planning to read enough Russian literature to find out. Between the two Chekhov short stories I remember doing and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", I may be tapped out.

I had to read a lot of it because it was in my school program. A lot of it boils down to either "Here's some memes from our social circle" or "Hey kid, i'm wanna get some moral lessons AND depression?".

I remember a classmate in high school who had moved from Russia doing a presentation on Russian film and holy fuck.

Now i wonder what was in it! Comedies everyone in Russia with a TV watches at least once a year? The so-called social realism genre stuff? The few disaster movies the soviets made?

They showed clips from a couple of movies but the one that stands out for me was a guy rolling under a tank to plant a grenade (I think), getting killed in the resulting explosion and lauded as a soviet hero. Somewhere between the late sixties and early eighties?

War movies! There were so many of them! And i never really watched a single one properly, only bits and pieces. But yes, self-sacrifice is a thing the soviet movies and media in general promoted, often a lot of these stories were outright lies.

About the only thing that links these thinkers together is the enormity of their egos (note the lack of, say, Socrates or Augustine). So I’m forced to conclude that the thing they have in common with the original poster is that he has an unbelievably massive ego.

And yes, Thucydides did have an enormous ego. The man was a semi-successful politician in Athens. That was not a job for the humble.

Hegel is concomitantly way more difficult than Schopes or Incel Patient Zero.

I like the double helping of Cellini, though!

Hobbes is my go to. Only bc if it doesn't land, a quick joke about the comic strip can hide a topic change well

Any bets that this guy is secretly more of a fan of Nietzsche’s sister than Nietzsche himself?

So secretly he doesn't even realize

The only way to stop a bad guy with a philosophy degree is a good guy with a philosophy degree

sucker bet

Also, obligatory

I will never not like this. His face in the second panel is *chef’s kiss*.

Made up for it by having Cellini twice. I always ask if they’ve read, say, Vergil or Aristotle or Tacitus in the original language, because the answer is nearly always no, and then I, a Classics major, can sniff and go, oh, I thought you were educated. My mistake.

And if they say yes, then I ask their opinion about the cinematic masterpiece Troy with a completely straight face and that usually takes care of it.

No Philip K Dick or Ursula K LeGuin, no sale

I’m familiar with few of their works and have still been told one needs a dictionary to speak with me. (I’m verbose out of fear of miscommunication) But dude holy shit. Have you tried asking about how her week went?