celebritydiscodave wrote:I think of a philosopher in terms of a person possessing well beyond the average range of philosophical powers,whether currently recognised,or not,by the greater public. The capacity for thinking outside of being human(beyond one`s personal programming)is essentially in my view what defines philosophers from the rest. Am I?

Vision101 wrote:I certainly consider myself a Philosopher but not just any Philosopher. I respect everything that the previous students of the subject but I have my own lane. This is a new generation of problems and issues with so many things to cover as topics. We can't keep going back in time and looking for information that ancient Philosophers once thought. What about the great minds of today. I don't think it is fare that today's thinkers are constantly getting overshadowed by deceased individuals. This is our season and I will stand firm and represent the new age of Philophy and its Philosopher so that this will be a defining time in history that will give hope to a dying world. Vision101

stormy phillips wrote:I see philosophy best served in quotes, good quotes, ones that make you think like a philosopher ought to, rather than skim over and use either in defence or to jest with. All good sayings ought to be revered like ones good friend, spend some time with them and as you get to know them, you begin to see why. They are like doors, waiting to be opened by the master key, there are many keys, which one are you?

SentientExExperiment wrote:Philosophy is my life. I rather philosophise than eat, drink, answers nature's calls, or answer my shadow's calls.

The shadow is my metaphor for the darker intentions of my mind.

dparrott wrote:Invictus_88 , I haven't seen you answer the forum question. Did you just join this one to pick on other people's answers?

HexHammer wrote:

Invictus_88 wrote:

HexHammer wrote:I consider myself a superior philosopher, as I use logic and reason, with a great knowledge and differ immensly from the common philosopher with a bit of neurology, psychology and physics.

It comes down to understanding the basic principles that most others are blatantly unaware of.

I consider you to be an intellectually insecure ****.

But hey, there's clearly no reasoning to that comment, just "neurology, psychology and physics"...so what does it matter?

Quite the contrary my friend, I'v proven my security, when one goest up against a big boss of a big newspaper, the entire chief of staff, lawyers and what not. I don't even have a formal education, yet with reason and logic can defeat them.

However, it seems that you can only preform parrotspeeches, as you don't even know when to apply "insecurity" to a behaviour.

Grendel wrote:

dparrott wrote:Socrates had a real job working as a stone mason or something

Which is kind of an argument philosophy is the preserve of brickies and labourers, not academics. Then of course there's Diogenes....... Perhaps the carboard boxes under Waterloo bridge are the place to find real philosophers. 24 Hour Party People had a homeless philosopher, so did Naked,