to be the peak is not necessary to influence the revolution. Kant is simply the synthesis of rationalism, empiricism and contractualism. And he was the greatest influence of western thought in the period. If we consider only who influenced political movements, we have to consider Locke, Marx and...
I'm Italian. Habermas and Apel are not analytical. Habermas is from Frankfurt school and Apel was influenced by continentals, analyticals and pragmatists.
But do you know that Schoppenhauer is very influenced by Kant, right? And not to forget that Kant take the concept of freedom from Rousseau...
Too many contemporary because I still didnt read ancient, medieval and some of modern philosophers. The kind of philosophy I most read is analytical philosophy, I didnt read much continental philosophy yet. But the topic of these philosophers is not much about logic. Most of my favorites has...
What matters in this pov is that it's not necessary to wait for every single possibility, but recognize that the set of possibilities count in the understanding of something and not only the effect that happened. Agree with this thesis is agree with an interesting modal realism, that is more...
I have two big disagreements:
First, I think the world is a complex entity and complex philosophies can give better explanations about it than simple ones.
Second, because of Peirce influence, the idea of "tangible effects on a person" is incomplete. I think you take this idea from some...
Well, any concepts are universal by its nature, by the simply reason that concepts are rules that works like a set of particular perceptions. Any particular perception is under a rule and the rule is universal because allow particulars be under the rule or outside the rule. This is the...
My favorites philosophers until this moment:
1) Charles S. Peirce = pragmaticism (not pragmatism), semiotics, evolutionary realism, criticism to nominalism
2) Kant = to explain I like him would be long
3) Wittgenstein = "use" theory of meaning
4) Wilfrid Sellars = criticism to the myth of...
My favorites:
1. Don Quijote - Miguel de Cervantes
2. The Demons - Fyodor Dostoyesvky
3. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
4. The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
5. The Maurizius Case - Jakob Wasserrmann
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