Who is the hardest philosopher to understand?

Originally Answered: Who is the hardest philosopher to understand? Heidegger, Hegel, and Nietzsche are some of the smartest, and hardest philosophers I know of. I mostly mean their best works such as Birth of Tragedy, The Beitrage, Being and Time, Work of Art, The Gay Science, and Phenomenology of Spirit.

What are the major problems of philosophy?

Some of the major problems of Philosophy are as follows: Our common sense takes the physical world as consisting of various kinds of things which are supposed to possess qualities and related to one another in different ways. These things are regarded as substance. Substance is something permanent and changeless.

Is philosophy hard to understand?

Philosophy is difficult to understand because it sometimes talks about subject matter to which one cannot relate to some direct, practical experience. On the other hand, such abstract topics are necessary for a broader, deeper and more fruitful understanding of philosophy in general.

What are some of the worst philosophers in history?

They hardly scratch the surface of bad philosophy. The worst philosopher in history is undoubtedly the second century Indian philosopher Nāgārjuna. He utterly confused metaphysics and epistemology and thus produced nonsense philosophy which subsequently became very popular with a certain type of nerd.

What is philosophy and why is it bad?

Philosophy is a journey that can never reach its destination. The worst philosophies are those that ignore this fundamental purpose. Instead of pursuing wisdom, they justify folly. They they see the destination as already having been reached, and hold whichever world they are born from as the correct way for the world to be.

What are the characteristics of a poor philosopher?

Firstly, they should lack the high standard of critical thinking marking great philosophy. The work of a poor philosopher is liable to consist of unclear and indistinct ideas, and obscure, confused, overly-abstracted arguments, making it difficult or impossible to understand and evaluate.

Do you consider a philosopher to be brilliant or CRAP?

A philosopher I Think of as brilliant you may think of as crap. It also depends on how you define philosopher, in a certain light an evil, sick bastard like Joseph Mengle could be viewed as a major philosopher, he certainly had a philosophy. Or Pol Pot, or Joseph Stalin, or Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, etc.