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Who Made the Greatest Contribution to Western Philosophy?
Plato
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Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


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Sandwolf posted:

Yo this thread is great, thanks. Added a couple books to the reading list.

are there any 21st century existentialists? What did existentialism/nihilism evolve into? What even is modern philosophy like?

Modern philosophy is pretty neat but it's more complicated than just one approach following another. It branched into about a million fields with various degrees of overlap. For me, Kripke was always the most important modern philosopher if only because he sort of justified the existence of philosophy itself. You should pickup a copy of "Naming and Necessity" which is a fairly straightforward read all things considered but it's one of the more important works of the 20th century.

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