Contender #3:



Bertrand Russell




Friedrich Nietzsche, your concepts on aesthetic theory through the tragedic concepts of the Apollonian [intellectual effervescence, enlightened thought, rationality] and Dionysian [drunk stupor, irrationality, licentiousness, bacchanalian revelries] dichotomy will dissipate to the analytic philosophical tradition of Bertrand Russell which stresses the inimical stance to any sweeping philosophical systems with the preference for the natural sciences, a succinct expression of philosophical tenets as opposed to the obfuscation of philosophical concepts/tenets, etc.


Here is a brief overview of the philosophical viewpoints/traditions regarding the external realm/world in reference to social/political relations that I have assorted and arranged through my understanding of the Western Tradition of philosophical thought:

(Some philosophical schools of thought divide the philosophical tradition to this tripartite viewpoint)

1) Realist Tradition:
Thucydidean System-> Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Morgenthau, Immanuel Wallenstein, Clausewitz

2) Rationalist Tradition:
Grotian System-> Hugo Grotius

3) Revolutionary Tradition:
Kantian System-> Immanuel Kant