Fun:Philosopher
A philosopher is a person who talks about everyday subjects using forms of language which are unintelligible to the average person. If the philosopher can quote other philosophers, preferably long dead ones, who also used impenetrable language - preferably a foreign one, then he will be even more greatly esteemed.[1]
Some have said that philosophy is just the process of adding footnotes to Plato, others that Immanuel Kant summed up the entire field in his surname.
Anyone talking in a fashion which "the man in the street" can understand is obviously not a philosopher by definition - he is merely popularising his point of view.
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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar David Hume could out-consume And Wittgenstein was a beery swine There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, Plato, they say, could stick it away -- Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle. And René Descartes was a drunken fart. Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed, |
| —Eric Idle, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Second Season (Recorded 25 September 1970, aired 24 November 1970) |
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- ↑ some versions have only 'Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel'
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