Who's your favourite philosopher?

renedescartes

There can only be one...........SOCRETES

He was the only one to come to the conclusion that he knew nothing and was able to admit it. My kind of guy

Rene:)

Jackie laughlin

Rene,
I know shag all too and the more I read and think, the less I know!

Scigaithris

Jacques Derrida. Why? He questions the dichotomies we live by: right-wrong, good-evil, love-hate, fact-fiction, rational-irrational.

After all, can such two-dimensional views on life between bipolar opposites accurately depict a multi-dimensional world, or universe, or whatever you want to call it?

I also enjoy his sense of humour, especially when he teased many of the postmodernist, deconstructionist types, who claimed he was not a deconstructionist, per se. In his later years, he interviewed with Dinitia Smith at the Polo Grill. He is quoted: "I often describe deconstruction as something which happens. It's not purely linguistic, involving texts or books. You can deconstruct gestures, choreography. That's why I enlarged the concept of text." (Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida).