My philosophy professor tried to convince our class to go to the annual get to know the students party that the philosophy department puts on and ask the other professors this question. He said that if you do it in a large enough group of professors, someone's favorite will be someone else's most disliked and you get to sit back and watch them fight. I loved his class. It's interesting that Nietzsche is common in this thread, his Thus Spoke Zarathustra is currently my favorite piece of philosophical writing. I like the book because it is broken up into small chunks on different topics. I can flip to a random page, read for a few minutes and have something to think about. However, I think I enjoy Hunter S. Thompson's worldview the most...
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