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View submission: what makes someone a philosopher?
Yes, I know this. But I think you are missing the point that I was trying to make. If you want to remove Spinoza from that list then compare the works of those who were roughly contemporaries of Nietzsche - Kant, Fichte, Frege, Hegel, Schopenhauer, among others. If you compare their works to that of Nietzsche, there is a marked difference in tone and *how* they presented their arguments. And yet, we continue to acknowledge Nietzsche as a philosopher (,generally speaking). Referring to the example offered by the person I was originally responding to, Dostoevsky, however, is not.
My personal views are not reflected in any of the above in the sense that it's irrelevant whether or not I consider (or don't consider) either Nietzsche or Dostoyevsky as philosophers.
There's nothing here!