philosophers

Via Tyler Cowen:

A philosophy prof I had once was famous for dismissing the biggest names in the biz as idiots. Wittgenstein? “Master of the obvious.” Heidegger? “Charlatan.” Habermas? “Unreadable.” Finally, someone — might have been me — asked him who he thought was any good. He glared at the class, and listed the only decent philosophers, ever: “Aristotle, Leibniz, Bertrand Russell… and me.”