Hello el3ctron!
20 Jun 70 11:58, you wrote to me:
To be fair, Carlin was a better philosopher than most actual
philosphers.
what is "fair" for you? who are the must actual philosophers do you
know? how do you rank a comedian over 3 or 5 best philosophers that
you know?
?
I don't personally know any philosophers. I also didn't personally know George Carlin.
But if we go historically, Immanual Kant's theories are the basis of most of modern ethical philosophical studies. Everything to him was black & white though, ("it is wrong to lie, even to a murderer"). He was overtly racist in many of his texts, using other philosophers opinions to support his bigotry, and was considered one of the founders of "scientific racism". He had similar low opinions of women.
Here's a some others:
Plato, Aristotle, Schopenhauer, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche: highly sexist/misogynist (Schopenhaur famously pushed a woman down the stairs)
Marquis de Sade: let's just say the term "sadism" was coined after him.
Martin Heidegger: Nazi. Like, a literal Nazi.
Hegel, Hume, Aristotle (again): used philosophy to justify slavery
Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, Fridrich Nietzsche - all had their philosophical ideas used to justify murder. human suffering, and even genocide.
Diogenes of Sinope (AKA: Diogenes the Cynic): he railed against societal norms. Sounds great, right? there are (apocryphal) stories that He did so by living in a barrel, eating in the marketplace, spitting and urinating on people, and masturbating in public.
Mike
... Eat healthy, exercise regularly, and die anyway.
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