Which philosopher has been your greatest influence?

[Bono]

I'm sorry to not be on the Ayn Rand/Milton Friedman train to neo-con land

Neo-cons are influenced by Trosky and social-democrats, not Friedman or Rand(except maybe Rand on foreign policy, though not even many neo-cons support nuking the middle east).

Once again I am foiled by my own stupidity.

If you meant Trotsky that would be really strange, since he was a communist, a different branch if I recall.

Ask John ford or Soulty, two neo-cons, and they'll tell you I'm right. Or I can find you a post by Ford where he says so:

Our roots are not in Zionism, but rather (as Bono has pointed out) Trotskyism.  We neoconservatives got our penchant for world revolution from the Trotskyists.

[KEmperor]

jc

Jimminy Cricket is not an influential philosopher.

[MarkDel]

Plato, John Locke or James Madison.

[ilikeverin]

Should I be concerned that I agree with some of Hobbes?

[Emsworth]

Bump...

David Hume

[Bono]

bump

Augustine, Zeno of Citium, Calvin, Schopenhauer.

[MaC]

St. Thomas Aquinas-heavily influences my belief in God; from a philisophical standpoint and not a religious standpoint. 
Locke influences my politics in a basic way, but I don't know much about him. 
If you want to call him one like opebo does, Sigmund Freud.  Freud is too highly ridiculed by the modern media as a 'sexist pig', but he did contribute a lot to psychology and he is right about a great many things.
Socrates-because his method of questioning everything makes the world more understandable in a specific sense.
And finally, Rene' Descarte, for making me look at the world in a really weird way. Ex-I cannot prove this computer I'm typing on exists, yet I can because my thoughts confirm my existence.

Add to list Ayn Rand, Aristotle, Locke, deTocqueville

[GOP = Terrorists]

Out of interest your view on his denials that the Cambodian killing field ever took place? And that really Pol Pot was a rather nice guy… sorry but I have a deep disliking for the guy, and more to the point think he’s not only overrated but he’s pretty much on a bar with the charlatans who pretend the holocaust didn’t happen.   

Actually I believe you're quite wrong.  I believe he just questioned the numbers involved saying that a single quoted figure was like 60% to high.  Further I've seen him comment on the comparison between East Timor and Pol Pot's actions and how each were portrayed in the media.  But I don't believe I've seen him say anything that would put him on a level of a holocaust denier.

[Gustaf]

Kant, Nozick and Rawls in a positive sense.
Rosseau, Hobbes and Nietzsche in a negative.

[Hatman 🍁]

I don't get influenced by any philosopher, because they're all idiots, but I really like John Stuart Mill.

[J. J.]

Niccolò  Machiavelli oddly enough.