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Originally Posted by Didymos Thomas  We do have Xenophon's dialogs. And I thought scholars could, to some degree, distinguish between Plato writing about Socrates and Plato using Socrates as a character. |
Even so, I don't really count Socrates as a
great philosopher. He was foundational, of course, but he wasn't like Plato or Aristotle, who came up with massive, comprehensive philosophical systems that touched almost every relevant area of philosophical thought. Those two
were greats.
Hume should absolutely be on there; I'd take him over Locke or Berkely if I had to choose only one Empiricist.
I have a hard time putting any type of Scholastic philosopher, including Aquinas, on a list of greats. Aquinas was a great Christian theologian, but not a great philosopher.