Someone who makes a living out of thinking. What they essentially do is create "constructs" and boundaries for what can and cannot be thought or what is or what is not acceptable behaviour.
Their job is to make a construct that is acceptable to the largest number of people so that we don't go nuts killing each other.
That's the BEST they can do. And usually they suck at it because there's always a good deal of people smart enough not to fall for that bullshit.
It's arguable that if there were no philosophers to conjure up bullshit "social contracts," we'd all learn to get along fairly peacefully anyhow. In reality no rules for life do exist and we all get along pretty fucking well.
So essentially they are a bunch of (usually old) wankers blowing wind up each other's asses.
Their job is to make a construct that is acceptable to the largest number of people so that we don't go nuts killing each other.
That's the BEST they can do. And usually they suck at it because there's always a good deal of people smart enough not to fall for that bullshit.
It's arguable that if there were no philosophers to conjure up bullshit "social contracts," we'd all learn to get along fairly peacefully anyhow. In reality no rules for life do exist and we all get along pretty fucking well.
So essentially they are a bunch of (usually old) wankers blowing wind up each other's asses.
David Hume, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and a medley of other asshats can be considered "Philosophers".
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Realist Philosophers: Asks not why, but how
Bull****er philosopher: Spends all day asking.....whyyyyyyy?
There may exist a counter balance of the 2 but these findings are inconclusive.
Realist Philosophers: Asks not why, but how
Bull****er philosopher: Spends all day asking.....whyyyyyyy?
There may exist a counter balance of the 2 but these findings are inconclusive.
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by Ron Jizzle March 6, 2004
Get the dining philosophers mug.1. In ancient Greece, it refers to one who attends symposiums, in the guise of thinking, to drink with friends, speak of pederasty, and generally makes a fool of himself.
In Plato's symposium, it was less of a scholarly discussion, and more of a drinking party where they talked about pederasty.
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As far as philosophers go, Socrates was a drunk old pederast.
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As far as philosophers go, Socrates was a drunk old pederast.
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Get the philosexual mug.Formerly known as deadendgirl, Philosophette is the username of an attention starved fat girl, who posts on a bulletin board "&T".
1/2 of her posts are pointless lists, and 1/2 are pointless blog entries.
She is clearly a troll, who wastes a crapload of "&T"s' bandwidth for nothing but blog entries and lists.
1/2 of her posts are pointless lists, and 1/2 are pointless blog entries.
She is clearly a troll, who wastes a crapload of "&T"s' bandwidth for nothing but blog entries and lists.
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