It's funny. I think this list is probably both overkill and underkill. No Hume?!?!?!
You can skip Marx, since practically everything he said about economics was wrong, and everything he said about anything else was already said better by Hegel.
Nothing ever said by someone other than Hegel was better said by Hegel.
Also, Heidegger was an existentialist and Sartre just took his stuff and watered it down.
Also, Heidegger was an existentialist and Sartre just took his stuff and watered it down.
I'm pretty sure Heidegger asserted that he was not an existentialist (and that he was an existentialist), and he specifically said that Sartre got him entirely wrong. Though when I actually go back to find such claims, I find very few places where Heidegger actually seems to be expressing a proposition. But then, I read English translations - we all know German philosophers make more sense in the original French. And Sartre said some things that had nothing to do...
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