[lit-ideas] Re: Best Philosopher ("favourite" philosopher)
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:38:22 +0100
Wednesday, June 8, 2005, 12:40:13 AM, Robert Paul wrote:
RP> Judy Evans wrote:
>> Radio 4 has a poll
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher.shtml?rhppromo
RP> I couldn't find Aristotle in the list of favourites,
I forgot. When I first went there, I couldn't find 1-5, where
Aristotle is; I think the site must be bugged. He's 2, Aquinas is 1,
then it's Descartes, Epicurus and Heidegger.
I found a "Hume tendency" elsewhere so cast a protest vote for
Sartre, but I wouldn't want to defend that.
RP> so I assume
RP> the voting was rigged.
well it's silly, but no sillier, I'd say, than when (some years ago
now) the Sunday Times asked allegedly top UK philosophers to name
the greatest living philosopher and all except one named Macintyre.
(The maverick named Hilary Putnam.)
RP> In any event, I only got 9 out of 12 in the
RP> philosophical quotes quiz, which shows there's something fishy about
RP> the entire project.
I got 4 which may show there's something right!
I wonder whether things like this actually get people interested in
philosophy -- which is presumably the idea.
Judy
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