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Greatest Philosopher of All Time?

Nominate and vote for the most influential philosopher in history, considering their impact on thought, culture, and society.

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wesstra

#1 Ranked Submission

Greatest Philosopher of All Time?

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The self posits both itself and the world through its own activity, making consciousness fundamentally self-constituting, and that freedom arises through the moral striving of the individual to reconcile self and world in ethical action.

AustinHatfield 1 month, 2 weeks ago

hello
AustinHatfield 1 month, 2 weeks ago

ok so I can post a comment and reply. However, I need to know whether I can vote after.
- smiffa 1 week, 4 days ago
  
  Interesting

NovusEsnos

#2 Ranked Submission

Greatest Philosopher of All Time?

George Berkeley

All properties are secondary qualities, and therefore nothing of substance can be said about the external world. Because nothing can be said about the external world, there is no reason to suppose it exists- all we have evidence for is the existence of ourselves, our ideas and our perceptions.

wesstra

#3 Ranked Submission

Greatest Philosopher of All Time?

Louis Althusser

Individuals are constituted as subjects through ideological state apparatuses, and understanding ideology as a material practice is essential to analyzing how capitalism reproduces itself and maintains power.

wesstra

#4 Ranked Submission

Greatest Philosopher of All Time?

Jacques Lacan

The unconscious is structured like a language, human subjectivity is fractured by the symbolic order, and desire is perpetually shaped by a lack we can never fully resolve.

wesstra

#5 Ranked Submission

Greatest Philosopher of All Time?

Alain Badiou

Truth is not relative but emerges through radical events that break from the status quo, where the subject is transformed by engaging in these truths, and that these truths are universal, transcending particular contexts.

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