The following is a list of the most influential thinkers on my life, who have contributed the most to fleshing out the context of life embedded with the human condition. I would recommend everyone give them serious thought and reflection.
James Allen— philosophy of mind, being
Socrates— The philosophical attitude, what is wisdom
Plato— The philosophical attitude, social and political theory
Aristotle— Logic, science
Buddhism— philosophy of mind, being, ego, impermanence
Hinduism— philosophy of mind, being, ego, impermanence
Thomas Hobbes— social and political theory
John Locke— social and political theory
David Hume—Metaphysics of mind, importance of empiricism, epistemology
Emmanuel Kant— The metaphysics of mind, epistemology
Schopenhauer— Will power, morality, representation
Nietzsche— social theory and human organization, moral systems of power, will to power, historical genealogies
William James— cognition, pragmatism, Role of beliefs for shaping the world
Gottlob Frege— Function and role and limits of Language
Wittgenstein— language and reality, language games, world building and meaning, epistemology, logic
Thomas Kuhn— Paradigms, world-views, and revolutions of thinking
Lakatos— Paradigms, scientific methods, research programmes
Durkheim— Role of institutions, behavior formation
Hegel— Dialectics, role and function in thought and society
Husserl— Consciousness, phenomenology, subjectivity, mental processes
Karl Marx— Social theory, dialectics, power structures
Max Veber— Social theory, role of institutions, culture
Thomas Luckmann—Role of institutions, their formation and necessity, epistemology
Peter Berger— Institutions, sociological theory of religion, epistemology
Bourdieu— Social theory and human organization, language and class, distinctions
Darwin— Primacy of adaptation, evolution
Michel Foucault— Power Structures, institutional morality, organizational inertia
Jacques Ellul— Propaganda, formation of psychology
Mircea Eliade— anthropological investigations of formation of consciousness, institutions
Sigmund Freud— philosophy of mind, ego/self, psychology
Jung— Psychoanalytic theory, archetypes, role of symbolism, psychology formation
Joseph Campbell— Historical universal archetypes, symbolism, role of stories and myth, meaning
Schumpeter— Human organization and economics
Veblen— social theory, economics, behavioral psychology and human organization within institutions
Newton— macromechanic physics
Descartes— analytic philosophy
Bertrand Russell— analytic philosophy, logic, epistemology, set theory
Einstein— general relativity, space-time
Ernest Becker— psychoanalysis, death and mortality, role of symbolism
Howard Zinn— Historical revisionism, identity
J.K. Galbraith— Social and political theory, institutions and economics
Michael Pollen— Philosophy of food and culture, environment
John Locke— philosophy of mind, identity, social contract theory
Paulo Friere— philosophy of education, power structures
Marcus Aurelius— stoicism, virtue
E.O Wilson— Evolution, sociobiology, evolutionary psychology
Yuval Noah Harari— human condition, role of stories and myths, language, culture, sociological/anthropological evolution
Daniel Goleman— social psychology, human condition
R.W. Emerson— philosophy of mind, personal responsibility, self-reliance, being
Jeremy England— evolution, organic life arose from thermodynamic processes, physics of evolutionary biological systems, theoretical physics of life systems
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