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Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) - Meaning is internal to language; language must be deconstructed to reveal how its assumptions and ideologies masquerade as reality73.
At BBC site there also was an opportunity for everybody to know more about these outstanding men at personally created pages, and to hear philosophers who told about them.
The result of this pall contained ten persons:
1. Karl Marx, 27.93%
2. David Hume, 12.67%
3. Ludwig Wittgenstein, 6.80%
4. Friedrich Nietzsche, 6.49%
5. Plato, 5.65%
6. Immanuel Kant, 5.61
7. St. Thomas Aquinas, 4.83%
8. Socrates, 4.82%
9. Aristotle, 4.52%
10. Karl Popper, 4.20%74
As we see people choose Karl Marks, a person with the help of work of whom nearly a century we have a bipolar world system in policy and economy. "Ordinary" guests and users with their choice confirmed the dialectical interdependence of philosophy and social practice.
Sources
1. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition/ Editor in Chief Donald M. Borchert. Thomson Gale, 2006. 7 vol. 771p.
2. Новая философская энциклопедия: в 4 т./ Степин В. С., Гусейнов А. А., Семигин Г. Ю., Огурцов А. П.. М.: Мысль, 2010. Т.4. 744 с.
3. IN OUR TIME'S GREATEST PHILOSOPHER VOTE//BBC Radio Site. 2005. URL: http://www.pravenc.ru/text/165069.html (access: 22.03.12).
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See the more detailed information on URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher_list_all.shtml (access: 22.03.12).
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher_vote_result.shtml (access: 22.03.12).
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