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¿Question #1555?
Wernazuma: The greatest philosopher ever is...?

ocdspectrum: Butthead.
Woelf: The Philosoraptor.
BOBBYCAN: Dead.
Narlgoth: Me. Obviously.
xofour: I have got to say Chris Page for this one. have you read his answers. Subtle but insightful. and the solitary snoopy microbadge looking up at the things...a sure signe of oneness.
the manatee: Aristotle.
TiwazTyrsfist: Lao Tzu
Phil Fleischmann: Archimedes
Jbrady: Socrates
Blott: MisterCranky
pakruse: The guy who writes fortune cookie messages for chinese restaurants
Felimid: Aristotle (excluding his earth-centered universe idea).
Nikku: Socrates
forthur: Socrates
pwilz: Spinoza
gmonk: usually the drunk guy at the end of the bar.
iklinck: Or is he?
1000rpm: probably dead now.
WatchmanX2000: now there's a very interesting point, could you genuinely compare quality in the context of thought for philosophy where the result is supposed to be a deepening of knowledge though the methods are purely based on thought since observation is suspect and one has to spend so much time defining concepts such as empirical evidence?
Simon Mueller: Yet to come.
boldot: Ghandi.
diehard4life: Frank Sinatra... do be do be do...
Inwardpanic: Socrates
MotUfan: Your mama. Ha ha ha ha ha... Ah. Next question.
ZeroZilla: God.
DHEK: Hmmm... I don't know. One of the ancient philosophers, I suppose.
matthewjhoskins: Hagel
POvidiusNaso: Plato.
xlorp: the one who doesn't
Ralzakark: René Descartes
Cut & Space: Socrates
bigbadsteve: dead
Avatar_69: Descartes
Chris Page: Pooh.
RinzaiZen: Michel Foucault
XenoMaster: Me
wargamer66: Karl Marx, and no, he would not have been happy with what the commies did with his ideas
jasta6: Jesus Christ!.........................................
Igloo cool: Mark Twain
heli: Schopenhauer maybe
Helenoftroy: No disrespect to Buddhist, but I really think Buddha was the greatest philosopher.
Unitbuster: Bill S. Preston, Esquire, and Ted "Theodore" Logan
Ebon Wendigo: Benjamin Franklin
Kazin: Me. who else?
brainrob: Father Dougal
puffinge: locked in my basement
vetinari7878: Aristotle.
axarca: Mr. Greenjeans
Jula: I kind of like Des Cartes, but I also like Socretes. And Plato. But Ian McFarlane is on his way to being the greatest.
mats-k: David Hume
Longbow: No clue, but I've enjoyed reading Einstein's writings.
skrutsch: not in my family.
GrandpaDave: Me
Cavedog_pdx: Homer Simpson
sbszine: Bertrand Russel.
sourwyrm: diogenes
scriptorum: Wernazuma.
Nem Menuu: Plato?
arkibet: Epicurus.
melissa: my daughter
ssmooth: someone we've never heard of
P.O.G.G.: Socrates
shotokanguy: I'd have to go with Descartes, but Socrates and Aristotle are right up there.
Majiken: Ergo the Magnificent.
Bearcat89: God.
ThatFalafelGirl: Pooh
Fa�l: Lao Tseu
CapAp: Thomas Jefferson
Lord_Prussian: Socrates
KnobDoctor: Aristotle.
ValJor: I don't feel I'm qualified to answer this question, I have just a very superficial knowledge of the works of the great philosophers of mankind. If it counts for anything, I would vote for my mother. Without having almost any schooling and living on a ridiculously low salary, she still had the fortitude to face the elements and educate four children. She was the embodiment of all that is positive and good.
Admiral Fisher: Philosophy was my degree, so there's a lot. I'd go Aristotle, though.
Karlsen: Immanuel Kant because he was a real pissant
snoozefest: don't know
thoia: Jesus
Windopaene: Robert Anton Wilson
ikeafetishist: nietzsche.
erli: Sun Tzu
gnomehome: Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boosey beggar who could think you under the table. David Hume could out-consume Shoppenhauer and Hegel, And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schloegel. There's nothin' Neitzche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raisin' of the wrist; Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed!
LudesFactor: the one who used his/her hands to make something really useful
MisterCranky: chaddyboy_2000. Oh, sorry, what?
Asmoridin: Socrates
toulouse: Derk sure is up there with the rest.
dakarp: Maybe Kant, although I haven't really read the ancients...
mrbeankc: Popeye who said "I am what I am"
2amp: Jesus
batman: Steven Wright
ynnen: ... the one that engages you most in thoughtful contemplation.
GuyHill: Ly Tin Weedle
haraggan: For my money, Nietzsche. But Wittgenstien is pretty damn good, too. Foucault and Baudrillard had great moments.
EndersGame: Socrates. He was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
fellonmyhead: ...dead.
isolated: Yoda
redhuntingcap: derrida
AlorielLelyn: All of them. Those who actually exercise their brain in some manner or another do great things.
Fawkes: Aristotle or Plato since they got the ball rolling.
Debate: Bertrand Russell
chaddyboy_2000: Don't care.
Jim_P: Aristotle
djlg: Dead.
CortexBomb: I think all philosophers have something to offer the world, as well as several flaws. I wouldn't pick just one
CDRodeffer: You are.
louiseh: Wittgenstein
jttm: Plato
Spielfreak: Will Rogers
skelebone: Kant.
sos1: Lao Tzu or Chuang Tsu
Blackwind: this has been done.