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He is, and all the other ancient Greek philosophers you've heard of are slaver shut heels whose writing shouldn't be given so much weight
Which philosophers do you look up to then?
You know they kept having philosophers after ancient Greece, right?
Some of them weren't even personally pieces of shit.
It doesn't mean their good ideas should be totally discarded simply because other things they say and did are bad. As Bruce Lee said: take the good but discard the bad.
So, any that you approve of come to mind?
Depends on what counts as philosophy or what fields of philosophy.
I mean, I've asked directly twice now and you've had the entire thread to mention a single one that you respect and have failed to do so. So Im starting to lean toward the assumption that you aren't familiar with the work of even a single philosopher, yet are smugly using an electrical device with components made by slaves and judging ancient philosophers as morally corrupt based on nothing but the times they were living in.
Well, like, what counts as philosophy to you? There are different fields and some people don't count some of them as philosophy.
Some people would include hawking include every theologian, or exclude Marx or discard the entire field of philosophy of mind.
But no, I'm not familiar with any. Books are nerd shit and reading them is literally impossible.