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Favorite philosophers/thinkers?
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Terrence and Dennis Mckenna-alot of Terrences ideas were actaully the ideas of Dennis
Wade Davis
Johnothan ott-this guy is more than just some entheo researcher
Christain Raetsch-same story, more than just some researcher
Kathlene Harrison
Ananda Bosman
Tony Wright
Emma Goldman
Tim Leary
Rupert Sheldrake
Francis Crick
Graham Hancock
More I am forgetting.
Oh yeah, the unibomber-I dont agree with his actions though..
Wade Davis
Johnothan ott-this guy is more than just some entheo researcher
Christain Raetsch-same story, more than just some researcher
Kathlene Harrison
Ananda Bosman
Tony Wright
Emma Goldman
Tim Leary
Rupert Sheldrake
Francis Crick
Graham Hancock
More I am forgetting.
Oh yeah, the unibomber-I dont agree with his actions though..
"The world is a mirror of myself dying, the world not dying any more than I die, I more alive a thousand years from now than this moment and this world in which I am now dying also more alive then than now though dead a thousand years. When each thing is lived to the end there is no death and no regrets, neither is there a false springtime; each moment lived pushes open a greater, wider horizon from which there is no escape save the living."
— Henry Miller
"Philosophizing is simply a way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere"
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Dreams are at once fruit & outcry against an atrophy of the senses. Dreaming is no solution.
— James Douglas Morrison
Unclean you art not. Outcaste thou are not. Leperstower, the karman's loki, has not blanched at our pollution and your intercourse at ninety legsplits does not defile. Untouchable is not the scarecrown is on you. You are pure. You are pure. You are in your puerity.
— James Joyce
— Henry Miller
"Philosophizing is simply a way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere"
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Dreams are at once fruit & outcry against an atrophy of the senses. Dreaming is no solution.
— James Douglas Morrison
Unclean you art not. Outcaste thou are not. Leperstower, the karman's loki, has not blanched at our pollution and your intercourse at ninety legsplits does not defile. Untouchable is not the scarecrown is on you. You are pure. You are pure. You are in your puerity.
— James Joyce
"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel"
-Horace Walpole.
You really do have to think to see the funny side. All my life I have attributed good humor to intelligence, and a lot of misery to a lack of humor.
-Horace Walpole.
You really do have to think to see the funny side. All my life I have attributed good humor to intelligence, and a lot of misery to a lack of humor.
All bring something to the table, in the case of Kant he brings profound thoughts about the a priori truths but embellishes such tings in his own ego. The old Greek philosopher Epicurus of Samos strikes me strongly as do the other elders of the foundation of Philos and Sophia. They lay the base mindset of man and the archetypical regulation that their cultural mythos has emblazoned on our minds. Something that exists beyond our personal reasoning.
Nietzsche kicked my butt out of the catholics den at fourteen. After that, Spinoza, Epicurus and Giordano Bruno helped me to rebuild my ethics from scratch, and pointed me at the free way of thinking. Along the way, Orwell and Arthur Koestler told me what to do when politics reared their ugly head. Right on time for Old Bill Burroughs to pull the reality carpet from under my feet (without knocking down any essential flowers from the vase).
And eventually, William Blake taught me to Love, Lao Tzu taught me to Look and the Monty Python and George Carlin taught me to Laugh
And eventually, William Blake taught me to Love, Lao Tzu taught me to Look and the Monty Python and George Carlin taught me to Laugh
The list is long, but I'm going to go for it anyways... How's this? I'll stick to the 20th century.
Theodor Adorno
As Hegel was Beethoven, so Adorno was to Schoenberg. Adorno gave us (with Horkheimer) the first, and still perhaps the best, critique of Enlightenment Rationality (The Dialectic of Enlightenment). He gave us a new categorical imperative in After Auschwitz, that it never happen again, that it happened in the first place because people obeyed instead of thinking for themselves and so anything which would tell us "don't think" must be treated as suspect and subjected to critique. He also gave us the Minima Moralia, the reflections of a European bourgeois, as a jew in exile in Los Angeles from the Nazis (his good friend and another great philosopher Walter Benjamin wasn't so lucky, he shot himself to avoid the camps, Benjamin wrote some very interesting things on hashish). He wrote several critical sociological texts on music and the burgeoning "mass culture," of which he was very critical, as he saw it as not requiring any thought or attention. One example of this is his "On Popular Music." His Aesthetic Theory is one of the better I know of (following closely the Third Critique of Kant)... And, finally, his "Negative Dialectics" manages to turn Hegel on his head the same way Schoenberg had Beethoven.
Martin Heidegger
Adorno hated Heidegger. He saw Heidegger's "Fundamental Ontology" as complicit with fascism, you can read all about that in the "Negative Dialectics" linked above, and also in his "Jargon of Authenticity". But love him or hate him, Heidegger did throw down the gauntlet in his breakout masterpiece "Being and Time." Here, Heidegger claims we have for too long neglected the question of Being, that is, what the Being of beings might mean. He begins the book, by saying the way into this question is through the being for whom Being is a question, namely, being-there, or Dasein (in German). He proceeds to ask after Being through Dasein, and offers up some really amazing insights. Heidegger later went on to write several other amazing texts, some of which include his critique of Humanism and Existentialism, in his "Letter on Humanism." His critique of technology, in "The Question Concerning Technology." And his own great masterpiece on art, "The Origin of the Work of Art." Heidegger was an incredible thinker, and an incredibly influential thinker. He didn't abide dialectics, and this gained him much favor with the proceeding generations. You've got to check out Heidegger. My own personal favorite of his is, "What are Poet's For:" so amazing beautiful.
Gille Deleuze
If you're an acid freak, a psychonaut, or any other beast of the sort, then Deleuze is indispensable. His philosophy, though never by name, embodies the psychedelic like no other I know of... He wrote several great books on his own, the "Logic of Sense," "Difference and Repetition," "Nietzsche and Philsophy" -- all great. But he is most famous for his collaborations with Felix Guattari, if "A Thousand Plateaus" doesn't read like an trip than nothing does... It is a follow up to their "Anti-Oedipus," a so-called schizoanalytic critique of psychoanalysis. Deleuze followed Spinoza, and many here at the Nexus, in building an ontology based soley upon a single plane of immanence, always becoming, becoming animal, becoming woman, becoming-becoming-becoming different... Everything is just this single plane at different thresholds of intensity--it goes through phase transitions, it deterritorializes but then is retteitorialized itself. Deleuze also followed Nietzsche, he sought pure affirmation of creativity and difference, and a whole hearted rejection of negativity and specters of transcendence. Check him out if you don't know him, he's positively intoxicated. (Deleuze will be my stand in for his great contemporary and friend Michel Foucault, his stuff is also great, and worth checking out... He really sort of carried Adorno's critique of Enlightenment rationality further than Adorno had, and without really knowing about Adorno at all, also from a decidedly undialectical standpoint).
I've probably filled enough space with these, and I'm not even really explaining, just linking... Even so, I'll end here with a list. No links, no explanations.
Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, Hunter S. Thompson, Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Marion, Alexander Shulgin, Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Lacan (and his reader Slavoj Zizek), Emmanuel Levinas, (Walter Benjamin) & (Michel Foucault) mentioned above, Simone Weil, ... This is only the 20th century mind you, the masters of us all have got to be Hegel, and Kant before him (it's really all already there in Kant if you read carefully, everything, that is, except the psychedelic experience.
I could go on, as this is kind of my field, (regretfully), I also know there is a decided bias here towards Western white male thinkers... And that's always bad news, so let me throw in Luce Irigaray, Franz Fanon, Eduard Glissant, Gayatri Spivak, Donna Haraway (finally came around on her), Homi K. Baba, and so on, and so on.
Theodor Adorno
As Hegel was Beethoven, so Adorno was to Schoenberg. Adorno gave us (with Horkheimer) the first, and still perhaps the best, critique of Enlightenment Rationality (The Dialectic of Enlightenment). He gave us a new categorical imperative in After Auschwitz, that it never happen again, that it happened in the first place because people obeyed instead of thinking for themselves and so anything which would tell us "don't think" must be treated as suspect and subjected to critique. He also gave us the Minima Moralia, the reflections of a European bourgeois, as a jew in exile in Los Angeles from the Nazis (his good friend and another great philosopher Walter Benjamin wasn't so lucky, he shot himself to avoid the camps, Benjamin wrote some very interesting things on hashish). He wrote several critical sociological texts on music and the burgeoning "mass culture," of which he was very critical, as he saw it as not requiring any thought or attention. One example of this is his "On Popular Music." His Aesthetic Theory is one of the better I know of (following closely the Third Critique of Kant)... And, finally, his "Negative Dialectics" manages to turn Hegel on his head the same way Schoenberg had Beethoven.
Martin Heidegger
Adorno hated Heidegger. He saw Heidegger's "Fundamental Ontology" as complicit with fascism, you can read all about that in the "Negative Dialectics" linked above, and also in his "Jargon of Authenticity". But love him or hate him, Heidegger did throw down the gauntlet in his breakout masterpiece "Being and Time." Here, Heidegger claims we have for too long neglected the question of Being, that is, what the Being of beings might mean. He begins the book, by saying the way into this question is through the being for whom Being is a question, namely, being-there, or Dasein (in German). He proceeds to ask after Being through Dasein, and offers up some really amazing insights. Heidegger later went on to write several other amazing texts, some of which include his critique of Humanism and Existentialism, in his "Letter on Humanism." His critique of technology, in "The Question Concerning Technology." And his own great masterpiece on art, "The Origin of the Work of Art." Heidegger was an incredible thinker, and an incredibly influential thinker. He didn't abide dialectics, and this gained him much favor with the proceeding generations. You've got to check out Heidegger. My own personal favorite of his is, "What are Poet's For:" so amazing beautiful.
Gille Deleuze
If you're an acid freak, a psychonaut, or any other beast of the sort, then Deleuze is indispensable. His philosophy, though never by name, embodies the psychedelic like no other I know of... He wrote several great books on his own, the "Logic of Sense," "Difference and Repetition," "Nietzsche and Philsophy" -- all great. But he is most famous for his collaborations with Felix Guattari, if "A Thousand Plateaus" doesn't read like an trip than nothing does... It is a follow up to their "Anti-Oedipus," a so-called schizoanalytic critique of psychoanalysis. Deleuze followed Spinoza, and many here at the Nexus, in building an ontology based soley upon a single plane of immanence, always becoming, becoming animal, becoming woman, becoming-becoming-becoming different... Everything is just this single plane at different thresholds of intensity--it goes through phase transitions, it deterritorializes but then is retteitorialized itself. Deleuze also followed Nietzsche, he sought pure affirmation of creativity and difference, and a whole hearted rejection of negativity and specters of transcendence. Check him out if you don't know him, he's positively intoxicated. (Deleuze will be my stand in for his great contemporary and friend Michel Foucault, his stuff is also great, and worth checking out... He really sort of carried Adorno's critique of Enlightenment rationality further than Adorno had, and without really knowing about Adorno at all, also from a decidedly undialectical standpoint).
I've probably filled enough space with these, and I'm not even really explaining, just linking... Even so, I'll end here with a list. No links, no explanations.
Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, Hunter S. Thompson, Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Marion, Alexander Shulgin, Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Lacan (and his reader Slavoj Zizek), Emmanuel Levinas, (Walter Benjamin) & (Michel Foucault) mentioned above, Simone Weil, ... This is only the 20th century mind you, the masters of us all have got to be Hegel, and Kant before him (it's really all already there in Kant if you read carefully, everything, that is, except the psychedelic experience.
I could go on, as this is kind of my field, (regretfully), I also know there is a decided bias here towards Western white male thinkers... And that's always bad news, so let me throw in Luce Irigaray, Franz Fanon, Eduard Glissant, Gayatri Spivak, Donna Haraway (finally came around on her), Homi K. Baba, and so on, and so on.
Along with all the classical philosophers already mentioned and psychedelic minds (Mckenna etc) I've really been into absorbing wisdom through conscious hip-hop.
Antalyzah, Kalki, Son of Saturn, Atma, Amos The Ancient Prophet, Illuminati Kongo, Sick Since, Si-Klon. Anyone that has anything to do with www.revoltmotion.com speaks some serious wisdom if you can follow the flow.
Antalyzah, Kalki, Son of Saturn, Atma, Amos The Ancient Prophet, Illuminati Kongo, Sick Since, Si-Klon. Anyone that has anything to do with www.revoltmotion.com speaks some serious wisdom if you can follow the flow.
Phil Russell, otherwise known as Wally Hope- a libertarian who liked his LSD, the key originator of the now defunct Stonehenge Festival, and, it is alleged, murdered by The State after being rendered a wrecked former shadow of himself by the States' alternative prison system, the psychiatric institution.A freak that scared the crap out of the authorities.RIP.
http://vimeo.com/19847548
http://vimeo.com/19847548
Pup Tentacle
lettuce
Krisna
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Paramhansa Yogananda
Robert Anton Wilson
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Paramhansa Yogananda
Robert Anton Wilson
jdubs said:
have you read Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead?
I must confess I haven't, have just watched a documentary on her. Probably should read her. Apparently she advocated lassez-faire capitalism which would allow corporate interests to dominate, and her ideas initiated the setting up of big financial cartels? She was all about ruthless self interest? Am I along the right lines?
Apologies if not.
I'm also aware there is probably more to her than that.
Pm'd you to keep this thread on topic.
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Rising Star
confuscius, sun tzu, immanuel kant, richard dawkins. And to the guy that said Dr. suess, i couldnt aggree more.
Elequently simple; “They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
Elequently simple; “They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
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Rising Star
You know what, I also have to say Bill o'reilly. Im convinced that guy's created the character he puts across, ladened with satire. But through doing that, he really does make me think. The ignorance he conveys lends itself to a constant critique of what he, and everyone else, says on his show.
Inner Paths
Secretary of the Interior
I'll second Rising Spirit, Sri Aurobindo has some wonderful views on reality...
He may be a musician but I really dig some of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's musings, especially in regard to artistic expression and integrity.
I always enjoy Jim Morrison's views on reality and existence too, my sister made me a book of Morrison quotes a long time ago that I enjoy reading periodically to set my reality compass on the right path.
Terence McKenna is a very reliable gateway into free thought also.
Basically I enjoy any philosophers and thinkers that value felt experience above all else and that the only way to any kind of truth is through seeking and attaining through your own eyes and senses... As Mr Leary said, "Think for yourself, question authority"
He may be a musician but I really dig some of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's musings, especially in regard to artistic expression and integrity.
I always enjoy Jim Morrison's views on reality and existence too, my sister made me a book of Morrison quotes a long time ago that I enjoy reading periodically to set my reality compass on the right path.
Terence McKenna is a very reliable gateway into free thought also.
Basically I enjoy any philosophers and thinkers that value felt experience above all else and that the only way to any kind of truth is through seeking and attaining through your own eyes and senses... As Mr Leary said, "Think for yourself, question authority"
