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Woo hoo! I'm done with work for the week so I had time to consider my favorite philosophers. I don't know if I live my life by their words, but their works and lives have blown my mind.

1. Simone de Beauvoir
2. Mary Wollstonecraft
3. Judith Butler
4. Audre Lorde
5. Hypatia of Alexandria

Thanks for the tag @jdtchicago! I'm tagging anyone who hasn't shared yet. Which philosophers or "great thinkers" are influences in your life?

#phil5

I was tagged by @monkeygirlsmama to post 5 philosophers for #phil5
From top left:
1. Calvin & Hobbes
2. Mary Wollstonecraft
3. Dr. Seuss
4. Voltaire
5. Leo Tolstoy

I've been thinking about my #phil5 and have come to the conclusion that I've always felt alienated by philosophy. Alongside poets and novelists, it's the natural world that teaches me about life. Socrates is welcome to his "men in the town": I'd much rather be in the woods! ? @jdtchicago

#phil5 - Who helped you build your worldview?

From top left, clockwise:

- Sherwin Wine
- Mark Twain
- Carl Sagan
- Laozi
- Auguste Comte

As always, tagging anyone who wants to play along.

#phil5 thankyou @Cinfhen I'm considering myself tagged & I tag all those who want to share ?
1. Kahlil Gibran
2. TS Eliot "Do I dare to eat a peach ? I shall wear white flannel trousers, & walk upon the beach.
3. Maya Angelou
4. Bert Hellinger
5. Mother Teresa
Picture is just one that I love

Thanks for the tag @JoeStalksBeck Here's who I look to for philosophical guidance:
my #phil5
1. Maimonides ~ Jewish scholar, philosopher & all around brilliant
2. Confucius ~ He has a way of simplifying everything
3. Hannah Arendt ~ for being a fighter & a survivor
4.Socrates ~ because Socrates
5. Ellen Degeneres ~ Her motto "Just Be Kind to One Another" is pretty solid advice ?

Anyone else feel like sharing...consider yourself tagged!

#5philosophies that changed me. 1) Nietzsche: the willpower to overcome sorrow. To always be becoming who you want to be. 2) Sartre: to not be afraid of your freedom and to accept responsibility for your actions knowing you always have a choice. 3) Plato: I love everything . Meno is my favorite though. 4) Buddha: nothing exists 5) Heidegger:like Sartre expresses existentialism through freedom and responsibility of choices. Who are your favorites?

Thanks @jdtchicago for tagging me for #phil5. #icantread about philosophy without rolling my eyes about how dead, white & male it is. Here are some who may not be credited as philosophers because elitism, but who conceptualised different modes of thinking about class, gender, race, colonialism, sexuality, and caste & who influenced me: Karl Marx, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, B. R. Ambedkar

#SeptemBowie @Marchpane @Cinfhen

I had to think on this one a bit, but I finally came up with my #phil5 choices. ?

1. Aristotle
2. Sun Zhu
3. Confucius
4. Immanuel Kant
5. Søren Kierkegaard

?If you‘re game for sharing whose philosophies you live your life by and you haven‘t been tagged already to do so then I tag @JoeStalksBeck @Samwise_Gamgee @DarcysMom @Silent_Whispers @GinEyre22 @rohit-sawant @JenP @MinDea @Izai.Amorim @speljamr @gossamerchild ?