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Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Rossikk(m): 3:01pm On Jun 22, 2019
killsmith:
Aristotle was a plagiarist.
Absolutely. That thief had virtually zero education. He then travelled to black African Egypt for a couple of years, and returned to Greece with 150 books he claimed were written by him. That's his 'his-story'.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by y3mi(m): 3:07pm On Jun 22, 2019
starbuck:
So ná woman born this one
Come to think of it, I was born of no mortal. Dey there dey ask

killsmith:
Go and sit down. You're suffering from ethnocentrism. Orunmila Nonsense. You talk about philosophy with a subjective, biased perspective. We should just buy this your Nonsense view on Or unilateral, just like that?

My friend, Go and lie down on a wooden bench.
Can you listen to your self, you will see why I am calling you all SLAVES, which you've proven once again. You blamed me of been ethnocentric, so did any of those Greco-roman, American, English, Jewish and Arab figures you all keep extolling here extend their philosophies in respect to Africans too ? Now how is this for a counter, do you know that in certain passage of the Ifa literar corpus whom Orunmilla - The Wisest is it custodian as ordained by GOD, the word 'Oyibo' is a deep term whose oriki is recited for length narrating how they became pale skin, which corroborate with what science of genetic and evolution recently has recently just confirmed, and yet everyone unknowingly still accept to refer to them erroneously as white people (Note: I despise the color labeling of humans for I am not black, technically speaking). I just stopped reading a self-touted book titled Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock because it's really no more different than what the likes of Eric Von Deniken whose conclusions to me, are tentative because they were drawn from evidences disparately unconnected on the basis of the deposition of their 'subject research' using extrapolated information (which to me are highly subjective) to infer what must have transpired in ancient past so as to empower and establish a theory that the Gods have... until they enter Ifa, like the deep melaninated so-called Egyptians learned from and advanced thereon, they will continue to waste their time.

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Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by dvalllis: 3:07pm On Jun 22, 2019
Rossikk:
Colonised dullard, the dude said there would be nothing like education without Socrates, and you support that? How ignorant can you be? Who taught Socrates? Who taught Aristotle? Who taught Thale? Where did they learn "philosophy"? Certainly not in Greece which frowned on the "foreign mysteries" they were propagating, and jailed, exiled, and executed many of them. They travelled to, and learnt from black African masters in Egypt. And admitted so themselves. It's not even a secret. Go on Google and research. It's free.
Your reactions to other people`s views or opinions always portrays you as someone who has an ax to grind with humanity. Stop being abusive of others and try to achieve inner peace, it helps a lot/ smiley

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Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Rossikk(m): 3:12pm On Jun 22, 2019
Meanwhile. Alexander the Destroyer ( known as "the Great'' to western mythorians), raided the Great African library in Alexandria, Egypt, filled with works of African intellectuals, looted the library, stole the books and scrolls, and burned down the building. They then claimed the knowledge from the stolen books as theirs, and that was how Greece, an illiterate, primitive backwater, suddenly became the land of world-beating "philosophers''.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Rossikk(m): 3:13pm On Jun 22, 2019
dvalllis:

Your reactions to other people`s views or opinions always portrays you as someone who has an ax to grind with humanity. Stop being abusive of others and try to achieve inner peace, it helps a lot/ smiley
Sometimes you need to drive out a nail with another nail.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Maariv: 3:25pm On Jun 22, 2019
CosmicPhoenix:
jesus christ never existed


You are very privileged to understand this bro. Jesus was a litrary creation by the flavian dynasty.

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Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by JhyMedex: 3:30pm On Jun 22, 2019
Some other greats.. Authur Schopenhauer..
Frederich Nietzsche...
Baltasar Gracian....
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Rossikk(m): 3:33pm On Jun 22, 2019
Maariv:


You are very privileged to understand this bro. Jesus was a litrary creation by the flavian dynasty.
The funny thing is despite all the credible info on the Jesus Myth available online for free, our colonized brethren still cannot research and learn the truth about the falsification.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Youngsage: 3:36pm On Jun 22, 2019
CosmicPhoenix:
jesus christ never existed

Yet there are historical evidences ?
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Obi1kenobi(m): 3:42pm On Jun 22, 2019
Rossikk:
You are NOT Igbo. You are NOT a black African. You are a white guy who comes here to promote white supremacist garbage while pretending to be African. I know you. Get lost and stay lost. Oh, and "black skinned" means BLACK. Take your confusionist bullshiit and stick it up your stinky white butt.

So Chinese people are white because many of them have whiter skin than actual white people? grin I guess even albinos are "white" right? Cos white and black are all about melanin content right?

Not sure why you're foaming in the mouth. Just getting you to rid yourself of your Egyptian history appropriation. Leave Egypt for Egyptians. Tomorrow I'll still catch you spewing similar nonsense about Israel. Actual Jewish people with thousands of year of traceable ancestry are "fake Jews", but your black ass is the real Jew even though your ancestors have never seen the Sahara. You're a joke.

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Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Obi1kenobi(m): 4:01pm On Jun 22, 2019
Rossikk:
Absolutely. That thief had virtually zero education. He then travelled to black African Egypt for a couple of years, and returned to Greece with 150 books he claimed were written by him. That's his 'his-story'.

Yes, because you know anything about Aristotle's life and you didn't just drag your alternative history and alternative facts out of your arse.

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Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Rossikk(m): 4:05pm On Jun 22, 2019
Obi1kenobi:


So Chinese people are white because many of them have whiter skin than actual white people? grin I guess even albinos are "white" right? Cos white and black are all about melanin content right?

Not sure why you're foaming in the mouth. Just getting you to rid yourself of your Egyptian history appropriation. Leave Egypt for Egyptians. Tomorrow I'll still catch you spewing similar nonsense about Israel. Actual Jewish people with thousands of year of traceable ancestry are "fake Jews", but your black ass is the real Jew even though your ancestors have never seen the Sahara. You're a joke.
White man, what are you looking for on a Nigerian forum? What do you want here? Who sent you here and why? Your mission has failed. The eyes of Africans are opening to your lies and manipulations. You are from the same demonic people who chiseled off the noses and lips from ancient Egyptian artefacts to disguise their black African features. You are a liar led by your father, the devil. And you need to repent of your evil or risk damnation.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by gokay11(m): 4:10pm On Jun 22, 2019
msmon:
Prophet Mohammed... Peace be upon him! I have never seen anyone see more of the future than him. He's very philosophical in sayings and action during his time.

He's also the greatest leader of all time, greater than Alexander the great.
SWA
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Rossikk(m): 4:17pm On Jun 22, 2019
Youngsage:

Yet there are historical evidences ?
There is no historical evidence of a 'Jesus Christ'. ZERO. It is a myth.

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Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Amujale(m): 4:29pm On Jun 22, 2019
Orunmila
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Dreamville: 4:34pm On Jun 22, 2019
fedrick901:
Who are the greatest philosophers Of all Time? let us discuss

Philosophy has shaped the world. From science to politics, the great philosophers challenged the ways that we see things. And while you probably know many famous Greek philosophers, the list of philosophers is much longer than that.
From unknown to famous philosophers, get ready for a trip through time because they are the 5 Greatest Philosophers Who Ever Lived!

Aristotle


A student of Plato in Ancient Greece, Aristotle contributed to numerous areas including metaphysics, logic, poetry, linguistics, and government. He is one of the most well-known philosophers in history.

Immanuel Kant

Born in Germany, Kant is well known for his ideas about perception. He argued that we cannot know what the world is really like (noumenal world). We can only know what we perceive the world to be like (phenomenal world). Basically, we can’t know whether or not everything is just one big Matrix.

Plato

As you have already seen, Plato was Aristotle’s teacher, and he is famous for starting the Academy in Athens. This was the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

Confucius

A Chinese philosopher who lived about 500 BC, he focused on relationships and how the family was important and necessary to society. His views shaped later Chinese thought and led to what is now called Confucianism

David Hume

A Scottish philosopher, Hume was a strong skeptic and empiricist. He claimed that our beliefs don’t come from our reason but rather from our feelings and ideas of how the world should be. In fact, Kant (#24) got many of his ideas from Hume.


Source:-https://porumba.com/17-greatest-philosophers-of-all-time/
Op your list no make sense,where keep Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon.They were much more influencial than the others apart from the great Aristotle and plato.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by akigbemaru: 4:44pm On Jun 22, 2019
CanadaOrBust:


Socrates was not great. Here is his philosophy. Compare it with that of Lord Jesus:

The Cyrenaics were an offshoot of the teachings of Socrates. The group was founded somewhere around 400 B.C. by one of Socrates’s students, a North African man named Aristippus.
They taught that the only real goal in life should be pleasure in the present, that people should do what makes them happiest in the moment instead of planning for a future that, in the end, is always unknowable and uncertain. Physical pleasures were of the utmost importance, and all measures should be taken to maximize the amount of pleasure a person takes in the moment. The view was a very self-centered one, stating that a person’s own pleasure should take priority over the pleasure and overall goodness of the community, city, or populace.There is a blatant disregard for not only the well-being of others in their philosophy but also for traditions and social norms. Aristippus taught that there was nothing inherently wrong with taboos like incest, it was only social convention that made it wrong. The true meaning of life is to ignore the restraints of social convention and do what is most pleasurable to you.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Worksunlimited: 5:29pm On Jun 22, 2019
RexTramadol1:




Who taught you philosophy?





If you didn't learn under Jingo definitely



Or Prof. Salami




You haven't learnt "love of wisdom".


oh how I love philosophy!

You know nothing. If you keep following what you are taught, you would never learn.

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Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by ifyboy60(m): 5:32pm On Jun 22, 2019
Muhylonaire:
Plato I must say!!

Where is Socrates on the list? You should include him.
Adding philosophers of the medieval age is not a bad idea too. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Wax Weber and my oga (KARL MARX).

don't mention Karl Marx when people who have contributed positively are mentioned, plsssss
How many millions died from his unworkable Marxism and communism
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Auduambless(m): 5:44pm On Jun 22, 2019
CosmicPhoenix:
jesus christ never existed



Go To Psychiatric Hosp. 4 Check Up.
BC MEANS BEFORE CHRIST.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Brainiac101(m): 5:54pm On Jun 22, 2019
Nobody mentioned the egyptian mystery teachers who taught most of d greek philosophers
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by freeDR(m): 5:57pm On Jun 22, 2019
msmon:
Prophet Mohammed... Peace be upon him! I have never seen anyone see more of the future than him. He's very philosophical in sayings and action during his time.

He's also the greatest leader of all time, greater than Alexander the great.
Mohammed was a conman. A scammer per excellence.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by freeDR(m): 5:59pm On Jun 22, 2019
ifyboy60:


don't mention Karl Marx when people who have contributed positively are mentioned, plsssss
How many millions died from his unworkable Marxism and communism
You spewed ignorance, fuelled by narrow-mindedness.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by freeDR(m): 6:08pm On Jun 22, 2019
Rossikk:
Absolutely. That thief had virtually zero education. He then travelled to black African Egypt for a couple of years, and returned to Greece with 150 books he claimed were written by him. That's his 'his-story'.
Guy, we all know about Egypt and the Nubian part of its history. But you sound ridiculous when you keep shouting "black African Egypt" like a poor negro soul, desperate for validation. It is absolutely unnecessary to overflog the black part of Egyptian history. It betrays your complexes; one of which is inferiority.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by freeDR(m): 6:09pm On Jun 22, 2019
RexTramadol1:






I don laff sotey I dey roll for ground.




Omoregbe is good



Salami is better



Jingo is best. grin


Great Ife!

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Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Engrgreat: 6:23pm On Jun 22, 2019
The list is not complete without Socrates.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by greatbrian(m): 6:31pm On Jun 22, 2019
msmon:
Prophet Mohammed... Peace be upon him! I have never seen anyone see more of the future than him. He's very philosophical in sayings and action during his time.

He's also the greatest leader of all time, greater than Alexander the great.

So he was a philosopher.. Tot he was like a theologian teaching about the ways of allah
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by ruffDiamond: 7:20pm On Jun 22, 2019
I like prof Niyi Osundare ,a great thinker and essayist.. probably better than Soyinka sef..
hardly dabble in partisan politics

nuff respect prof
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by RexTramadol1: 7:59pm On Jun 22, 2019
Worksunlimited:


You know nothing. If you keep following what you are taught, you would never learn.



Same thing Philosophy is pointing to bro




If you don't admit that you know nothing, then you might not get to know anything



I know nothing, but I'm glad cos I know what I don't know!
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Muhylonaire(m): 8:05pm On Jun 22, 2019
ifyboy60:


don't mention Karl Marx when people who have contributed positively are mentioned, plsssss
How many millions died from his unworkable Marxism and communism

His deductions are revolutionary in nature and believe me I still believe in that his Egalitarian society even though it looks unachieveable.

yet, I like him grin

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Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by ifyboy60(m): 8:42pm On Jun 22, 2019
freeDR:

You spewed ignorance, fuelled by narrow-mindedness.
tell that to the millions of Vietnamese, Cambodians, North Koreans etc that died fighting for communism.

How many countries are truly communists today.
u might as well relocate to North Korea. u are only wise in ur eyes.
Re: Who is The Greatest Philosopher Of All Time? by Respect55(m): 9:22pm On Jun 22, 2019
CanadaOrBust:


Socrates was not great. Here is his philosophy. Compare it with that of Lord Jesus:

The Cyrenaics were an offshoot of the teachings of Socrates. The group was founded somewhere around 400 B.C. by one of Socrates’s students, a North African man named Aristippus.
They taught that the only real goal in life should be pleasure in the present, that people should do what makes them happiest in the moment instead of planning for a future that, in the end, is always unknowable and uncertain. Physical pleasures were of the utmost importance, and all measures should be taken to maximize the amount of pleasure a person takes in the moment. The view was a very self-centered one, stating that a person’s own pleasure should take priority over the pleasure and overall goodness of the community, city, or populace.There is a blatant disregard for not only the well-being of others in their philosophy but also for traditions and social norms. Aristippus taught that there was nothing inherently wrong with taboos like incest, it was only social convention that made it wrong. The true meaning of life is to ignore the restraints of social convention and do what is most pleasurable to you.
In all your writings, u failed to capture the summation of his philosophy... PHILOSOPHY IS AN ACT OF MIDWIFERY. All u had up there are the elementary part of his philosophy. He opined that philosophy should be geared towards making man realize his inherent potentials and that's the bedrock of his philosophy

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