Myself. Philosophy means the love of wisdom. While i appreciate all wise thoughts from any source, it is my process of reflection i enjoy most. Too often we make God's of mere mortals while neglecting the divinity within ourselves.

Not at all easy to answer, but the most meaningful of the relatively recent bunch that touches on current-age problems without having insane caveats is most likely Albert Camus, as he touches upon the question on why live at all, which is a question I'd say every thinking man or woman will have to f...

Alan Watts. No one has done a better job of transmitting Eastern wisdom to Western minds.

Aristotle.

I consider Aristotle to be the bedrock of the Western traditions of logic, natural science, and individual liberty. I would put in his debt virtually every comprehensible Western philosopher, in particular St. Thomas Aquinas, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ayn Rand. In contrast I consider Plato to be the...

Been getting deeper in to Stoic philosophy which is great! Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epiticus “you become what you give your attention to” - epiticus What I love about the Stoics is it emphasizes the power of what you can control - which is yourself. Hold yourself to high standard but be gentle...

Guy Debord for his radical criticisms of ordinary modern life as inauthentic existence Soren Kierkegaard for his belief in God as a solution to the modern human condition

Gautama Buddha

God

Augustine, because of his doctrine of rightly ordered love.

Martin Buber: "All Real Living Is Meeting". After years of working as a social worker, i found a perfect match with his insights about human life finding its meaningfulness in relationships. Although I am also a big fan of Heidegger...

Current is Alexandre Dugin. Why? He (or at least translator Michael Millerman) explained something I've wondered about for decades: why writers from early church to Enlightenment were so concerned about Nominalism. They seemed to regard it as a heresy leading straight to a chaotic hell. For M...

Stefan Molyneux He was my first contact to philosophy and opened up a topic I thought was inaccessible.

Diogenes, he was the Siddhartha of the West in a sense. Diogenes was responsible for debasing the currency and, similar to Jesus in the temple, made it his mission to deface the fiat and overturn the money changers. He went on to live a life of asceticism. #₿

Deutsch. I never realized how philosophy and mathematics are tied to the physics of our particular universe. In another universe, they would be different. There is no second best philosopher.

Would Murray Rothbard count as a philosopher? I know he was an economist and historian but I have found his anarcho-capitalist thought very influential on my own thinking.

"Jesus Christ, because He changed my life." –George W. Bush