Underrated philosophers

[Tahuti]

I was told that there aren't any women philosopher, and that eastern philosophy = eastern religion.

There are women philosophers, including Mary Wollstonecraft and Hypatia (who is rather high on my list of philosophers to check out and perhaps constitutes an underrated philosopher as well).

The context of Eastern Religion and Eastern Philosophy are vastly different than in cultures where Abrahamic faiths have been important and the support or criticism of religion is a major point of dispute between philosophers. This is because religious identification in Hinduism is less rigid than in, say, Christianity and those considered atheists may still be considered religiously observant Hindus.

 

[Hojsimpson]

There are women philosophers, including Mary Wollstonecraft and Hypatia (who is rather high on my list of philosophers to check out and perhaps constitutes an underrated philosopher as well).

And Ayn Rand!! As overrated. But still a woman.

 

[Traitorfish]

Yet Marx does not at any point venture outside questions posed by Classical Economics, other than to subjugate such to the field of (Marxian) economics.

At any point in what? In Capital, perhaps not, because Capital is "A Critique of Political Economy". In the Grundrisse, he most certainly does.

 

[Ayatollah So]

1) Borges

I need to read more Borges.

Along similar lines, Stanislaw Lem.

 

[onejayhawk]

I'm going to throw a name out: Douglas Hofstadter

His book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is genius. Georg Simmel said, "There is more to life than life." Hofstadter gives a fairly rigorous defense of this basic principle. Knowledge is bounded and constrained. The knowable is not bounded. Always our perceptions are too narrow and our logic can never reach all of reality.

And Ayn Rand!! As overrated. But still a woman.

Saying Rand is over rated is redundant.

J

 

[Hygro]

I'm going to throw a name out: Douglas Hofstadter

His book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is genius. Georg Simmel said, "There is more to life than life." Hofstadter gives a fairly rigorous defense of this basic principle. Knowledge is bounded and constrained. The knowable is not bounded. Always our perceptions are too narrow and our logic can never reach all of reality.

I dig it.

 

[ParkCungHee]

There are women philosophers, including Mary Wollstonecraft and Hypatia (who is rather high on my list of philosophers to check out and perhaps constitutes an underrated philosopher as well).

Good luck. We don't actually have any of her writings. She may have collaborated on her fathers works, but that's all we got.

Given the numerous things that are attributed to her, and how forgettable of a classical philosopher she was, I think she's probably overrated.

 

[Tahuti]

Good luck. We don't actually have any of her writings. She may have collaborated on her fathers works, but that's all we got.

Given the numerous things that are attributed to her, and how forgettable of a classical philosopher she was, I think she's probably overrated.

There aren't any works ABOUT her, like in the case of Plotinus and Socrates?

 

[ParkCungHee]

Not on the same scale. And certainly nothing that touches on what she actually taught. Part of the problem seems to be that her students were sworn to secrecy on that matter.

We have some correspondence Syensius sent to her, and the rest is passing mention, mostly in Socrates Scholasticus, who wrote like, 300 words about her.