Greatest Philosophers / Martial Artists

[BIGBANGSingh]

Who would you say are the greatest philosophers / martial artists of all time? Right now, two names come to mind:

1) Bruce Lee
2) Guru Gobind Singh

Feel free to add to the list :)


Joe Lewis Fighting Systems (JLFS)
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[Omega the Merciless]

Me.

2) Guru Gobind Singh<<<< who the fuck is that?

hell what about Sun Tzu?

Official WTDude Badass Evil Genius

[Phoenix]

I'll stand by Musashi 'till the death.

Joon Rhee and Bong Soo Han are pretty cool too.

"You can't cast aspersions on someone because they're wearing a cape. Superman wore a cape, and I'll be damned if I'll let you say something bad about him." - Jerry Seinfeld

[Xuanlong Xian]

Tank forever!

[Xuanlong Xian]

Ken Shamrock, UFC 1: "I like fightin'."

[Xuanlong Xian]

Bruce Lee certainly *fancied* himself a philosopher...

[BIGBANGSingh]

Okay, to make this list more exclusive, let's include only people who practiced martial arts and were explicitly philosophical. That's kind of vague, but think of people like Bruce Lee.

P.S. Guru Gobind Singh was the 10th Guru of the Sikhs, and master of Shastar Vidiya.


Joe Lewis Fighting Systems (JLFS)
http://www.joelewiskarate.com

[Omega the Merciless]

Oh, no wonder I never heard of him.

I nominate Gene LeBell.

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[Jenfucius]

"Guru Gobind Singh was the 10th Guru of the Sikhs, and master of Shastar Vidiya."

is that supposed to be informative? WTF is a guru of the sikhs, and WTF is shastar vidiya?

i would add:

Yagyu Munenori/Takuan Soho
George Lee (my old kendo teacher-long story)
Li Tai-liang, (my xing yi teacher), when he's in the mood for it
ueshiba morihei?
Tesshu Yamaoka

[baltasargracian]

I nominate Steven "fuck you and die" seagal.

[The Wastrel]

You have a link to an "objectivist" website in your signature. I have serious doubts you have ANY idea what philosophy is.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever."

[The Wastrel]

Objectivism holds that there is one reality, the one in which we live. It is self-evident that reality exists and is what it is: our job is to discover it. Objectivism stands against all forms of metaphysical relativism or idealism. It holds it as undeniable that humans have free will, and opposes metaphysical determinism or fatalism. More generally, it holds that there is no fundamental contradiction between the free, abstract character of mental life and the physical body in which it resides. And so it denies the existence of any "supernatural" or ineffable dimension for spirits or souls.

LOL I say sir, LOL. Indeed, ROFL even.


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[InsideOut]

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[Fisting Kittens]

You have a link to an "objectivist" website in your signature. I have serious doubts you have ANY idea what philosophy is.




quoted for agreement. One of my majors is philosophy and I met this fellow pre-law chick who found out my major. She started asking me about stuff, and asked if our department had a good course on objectivism. I said "of course not!" and she got all pissy and said "well why not, the PHL department here must not be very good." I then tried to explain to her that nobody with any credibility in the entire academic world thinks that objectivism even merits discussion. And then I encouraged her to go to this BRILLIANT prof I had for epistimology and later for modal predicate logic, and tell him that the department sucks and that he should teach objectivism. I really hope she did.

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In short: to flame.

[Shi Heng Che]

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[Kensai]

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