quote: Originally posted by Crazydeb8ter
foucalt, heidegger, marx, hobbes, spanos
damn whos the dude who encouraged mass killings in order to ensure the future of humankind
Reverend Thomas Malthus, and he wasn't much of a philosopher, he just had warped views on overpopulation. He didn't encourage mass killings, just condoned "population controllers."
I think it's more fair to say that most kids in school don't ever hear about heidegger or spanos, they might hear about foucault, they probably have heard about of hobbes and marx though. I think most kids are at least familiar with the Greeks, Plato, Aristotle, etc.... Then if you take a math class you're bound to hear about Renee Descartes. If you take philosophy classes that are sometimes offered in certain secondary schools, you'd probably hear about those people as well as Spinoza, Kierkegaard, and others... haha, too many to list. But I don't think many philosophy classes are offered in the average secondary school...
EDIT - if you take debate then you'd probably hear about all these philosophers and more, including all the ones victor listed, there's many more where those came from though..
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