CULTURE: BBC "Greatest Philosopher" Votes Result: "The BBC Radio Four programme In Our Time has been running a 'Who is the greatest philosopher?' vote. The results are in and they are, perhaps, a bit surprising.

• Karl Marx won with 27.93% of the vote
• David Hume, 12.67%
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, 6.80%
• Friedrich Nietzsche, 6.49%
• Plato, 5.65%
• Immanuel Kant, 5.61
• St. Thomas Aquinas, 4.83%
• Socrates, 4.82%
• Aristotle, 4.52%
• Karl Popper, 4.20%

This kind of programming, and the website tie-in, show the BBC at it's best: Challenging programming that allows people with knowledge of a subject the time to talk about that subject, and to discuss opposing points without relying on sound bites or dodgy statistics. It also proves that the licence fee isn't entirely wasted on dumb house makeover programmes.

(Written by: dem_z)

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(Via SuicideGirls: News Wire.)