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Originally Posted by trackaghost
You mean Hitler's favourite philosopher? Nietzsche also believed in eternal recurrence which means your life and everything you've done and are going to do has happened before and will eventually happen again, which I always found a depressing concept. He was also a complete misogynist, but then most of the great philosophers were.
My favourite philosophers (which I'm listing like my favourite actors!) are: Leibniz, Hume and Russell. I always loved reading Bertrand Russell!
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I only saw the one show on him, and I liked what they said he said on the show. About happiness being work, and to expect happiness without it is delusional. Eternal recurrence is fine, except that it's not like reincarnation in that, from what you say here, he thought your life would be
exactly the same every time? That's pretty interesting for me to think about, though. I mean, I've often thought things like that. It would suck if it was exactly the same.
I don't know anything about those philosophers, or very little. A bit of Bertrand Russell I've come across. I was thinking of buying the "philosophers" series, which is much easier than reading all the books, woudln't you say?
Why do you like those? What were their themes? Ideas?