came across in our time’s greatest philosophers rather late, as in, today. evidently they are taking a vote to ascertain who the people feel is the greatest philosopher of all time. the result will be announced next week. (equally as pointless but certainly less vomitous than that “greatest american” piece of shit that was on the tube recently.) the site offers some semi-interesting supporting material, the requisite quiz and timeline, celebrity choices (stephen fry is a plato man evidently) etc. i liked the audio excerpts of people trying to convince you who to vote for. through the sheer tenacity of propaganda in my household (read my girlfriend) i’d have to vote kant, though in reality i haven’t a clue. you? for longer tendrils toward specific philosophers check out assembled philosophers.

p.s. if you are an actual philosophy geek and those links left you sneering you might prefer this bit of dorkery causes of death of philosophers. i say dorkery because if you don’t know your stuff they won’t make much sense.

I’d say I understood only about five percent of those jokes. oh well.

althought the greatest philosophers nominations are far less abominable than the greatest americans list (as I recall, no fewer than four of the top 25 were fascist monsters, including the winner; i posted at more length elsewhere, too late to be read, i imagine:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/tom-watson/the-greatest-american_3268.html
excuse the long URL)

my only beef with the greatest philosophers list is that it should be called the greatest western philosophers list; it really is all dead european males.