ten top philosophies

Philosophical thoughts -- the greatest of the greatest.
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10. Nietzsche's 'God is dead'.

Some people believe Nietzsche was a common criminal, and did more damage to Christianity than Judas, Pilate, and God himself could muster up, the three altogether. (The Christian God is guilty of creating a salvation for humankind that was carried out the only possible way God allowed, which was getting His own son tortured terribly and killed the most horrible way available to man in the technology of the day.)
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9. Sartre's definition of the self's consciousness

He said that the conscious of a mind can only exist when it observes or sense or acknowldeges somethign outside of itself.
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8. Plato's world of ideals.

Ideals are the perfect manifestations of man-made objects. They are perfect, and they have lasted forever from eternal past into the eternal future.
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7. Hume's definition of motivating force for man.

Hume realized that we are only driven by our passions. The intellect is there only to serve our passions, and without passions we would be stone dead: no desire to do anything, not even to think or breathe.
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6. Buddha's oneness of the universe.

The Buddha was the first one to pave the way to the Big Bang theory. (Certainly not to be mistaken for the 'Bing Bang' theory.) The Buddha's thought that nothing exists, is the same that states that the quantum mechanical existence of a zero-point energy was responsible in creating the entire universe at a point in time when the Big Bang happened.
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5. Tao's twoness of the universe.

A major challenger to the oneness view.
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4. Edie Brickell's song lyrics.

''Philosophy... is a walk on some slippery rocks,
Religion... is a smile on a dog.

''Philosophy... is the talk on a cereal box,
Religion... is a light in the fog.''
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3. Ngamambe Umbulu's departure theory of feelings and forms.

The view states that emotions, mind, senses, etc., are not reality-based. It states that while they are induced by sometimes intricate physical reality, and an interpretation of them by the brain, in the end their manifested effect (emotions, feelings, etc.) is not explicable by even the philosophical categorization of ''differentnesses of levels of movement''. Ngamambe's theorem says that perception by a person is done on a non-material level.
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2. Aristotle's formal logic of syllogisms.

Opened the flood gates for man to establish a universal way of proving things. It also opened the floodgate to develop ways that look logical, but are not, and those are called ''fallacies''.
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1. Descartes' a priori proof of a physically existing thing.

This is huge. There is only one thing that can be proven beyond any doubt to exist in the world, and that is the mind of a thinker, for without a mind there would be no thought, and the thinker can sense he has a thought. ''Cogito ergo sum''. ''I think, therefore I am.''
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Darwin's theory of evolution

Darwin tapped on a fact that was finally proven by genetics, and by a realization of how DNA structures reproduce themselves.

This was a philosophy in Darwin's time, but today science has proved it, so the theory lost its standing in philosophy.

I included the theory of survival of the fitness and the origin species not only because of my reverence to this great thinker, but also because his theory has helped me explain the behaviour of humans much better than the theoretical waste-land that I had been lost in, insofar as what the human condition is.

Hume's Passion theory is very interestingly completely congruent with Darwin's.

In fact, all the 11 list items are compatible with each other, except of course in the case of Tao's Te. (And of its later published new and improved version, Tao's Ti.)

People may wonder why I put this list under the category 'Shopping'. It's becasue 1. There is no philosophical category, and 2. There was a famous philosopher named Schoppenhauer, whose name bears at least an auditory-spellual semblance to the category chosen by me.

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