Who is a weird and interesting Philosopher to give a report on?

It cant be plato, confucious, marx, locke, sartre, socrates, bentham, hume or kant. I want strange theories and general brillients. the compatition is to pick the phiosopher to not throw ut of a hot air ballon to their death. Please include interesting facts! Easy 10 points
Who is a weird and interesting Philosopher to give a report on?
Try Tientai. He lived in sixth century China and his ideas are being propogated in 192 countries by SGI.
Who is a weird and interesting Philosopher to give a report on?
do military philosophy and do sun tzu
Reply:David Lewis.





Check out the wiki article to which I%26#039;ve linked you below and you%26#039;ll see why.





Mind-blowing stuff. Get a joint ready first, dude.
Reply:the one that cut his ear off, no wait thats an artist, sorry,
Reply:I`d go for F. Nietzsche.


He`s is brilliant, complicated, original, contradictory, misunderstood...Even Osho commented with respect on his book %26quot;Thus spoke Zarathustra.%26quot;





Here are some of his quotes:





%26quot;You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. %26quot;


%26#039;What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue.%26quot;


%26quot;A man is a the bridge between ape and superman.%26quot;


%26quot;The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.%26quot;


%26quot;The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life%26#039;s terrors, he affirms life without resentment. %26quot;


%26quot;When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. %26quot;


%26quot;There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. %26quot;





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_N...
Reply:I%26#039;d say go with Berkeley ... his ideas were about as weird as they come, and he defended them brilliantly.





Berkeley was the ultimate empiricist, and probably the first phenomenologist. He was an anti-realist in the sense that he rejected a notion of reality existing independently of the mind. All that exists are minds and their contents -- perceivers and perceptions. There is no such thing as %26quot;matter%26quot; or %26quot;substance%26quot; underlying reality.





The best part is that Berkeley insisted his view was perfectly common-sensical! He illustrated this point like this: ask a farmer to explain what a cherry is. In all likelyhood, the farmer is going to list a bunch of properties the cherry has: sweetness, redness, roundness, etc. He would say nothing about the cherry being a material thing existing in space, having extension, being composed of atoms, and having qualities that create ideas in the mind.





Berkeley concludes that when talking about things existing in reality, we are referring merely to bundles of sensations inside our own minds. Redness, roundness, sweetness are perceptions -- and perceptions do not exist independently of a perceiver. Thus, reality as we know it is all in our mind, and this is common sense!





Great stuff. :-)